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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Waltham City Council Approves Condo Plan for Former School

The former Banks school will soon receive a makeover.

The Waltham City Council has approved funding for the proposed renovations that would turn the former Banks School into condominiums. The City Council, during its Monday, Jan. 14 meeting, approved a $3.5 million bond measure to fund turning the former school into a 24- unit complex, according to the Boston Globe. The city plans to sell the units. The project at 948 Main St. would likely be completed within a year and involve mostly interior renovations, Mayor Jeanette McCarthy told the Globe. City officials plan to put out requests for bids on the project soon. Some of the units will be sold for below-market rates to help boost the city’s stock of affordable housing, according to the Globe. The top floor of the building has already been …

Lydia Magill

12:01 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sounds like it might make for some nice units. An easy walk down Main Street, plentiful bus stops...just please don't move the voting location back to Brandeis.   more ›

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Governor's Proposal All But Abolishes Waltham Housing Authority. What Do You Think?

Doing away with local housing boards is Gov. Patrick's idea for slashing public housing cost and corruption. Do you think that's a good idea?

The Waltham Housing Authority, one of 240 public housing authorities across Massachusetts, would all but vanish as part of a proposal from Gov. Deval Patrick to streamline public housing management operations. The purpose of local housing authorities is to manage and maintain subsidized housing and, often, to advocate for affordable housing for lower-income residents. The administration reportedly estimates the consolidation would save more than $10 million a year in salaries and administrative costs. According to the Boston Globe, while Gov. Patrick's proposal would centralize public housing management into six regional ­offices, a small number of managers and maintenance workers would remain at local housing author­ities. And, says the …

charles jacob

12:41 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013

I am a Democrat but I am not a huge fan of deval at all. I think this is a horrible idea. Hes cutting jobs and this will let the projects across mass. Become delapidated than they already are. As it is there are alot of units to not enough maintenance workers. Life in the projects has been getting better and these buildings were becoming more modernized and clean, you can thank the hard work of …   more ›

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