Massachusetts RealEstateRama

The Town of Framingham has received a copy of the Comprehensive Site Audit Report issued by Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection on June 3, 2015 to Eversource Energy (formerly NSTAR Gas and Electric Company) the owner of property located at 350 Irving St. in Framingham. This site audit report describes the results of an extensive audit MassDEP conducted starting in the fall of 2014 and included a comprehensive review of the environmental assessment and ongoing site cleanup activities at Eversource’s property at 350 Irving Street in Framingham

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the consolidation of the Disaster Loan Outreach Centers in Baltimore City into a single location at the Coppin State University beginning Monday, June 15 to assist businesses and residents in applying for low interest disaster loans. These loans are made available due to the SBA disaster declaration as a result of the Civil Disorder between April 25 and May 3, 2015 in Baltimore.

Massachusetts businesses and residents affected by the Brookside condominium fire on May 5, 2015, can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet announced today.

Congressman Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08) released the following statement in response to the House consideration of H.R. 1314, Trade Act of 2015. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is on the wrong track. This trade agreement includes several countries with abysmal records on human rights and labor and environmental protection. And TPP does nothing to guarantee that will change.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Tuesday announced the winning projects of the Youth Participatory Budgeting Vote. This year’s vote, in which young Bostonians ages 12-25 decided how to allocate $1 million of the City of Boston Capital Budget, is the second time the City has engaged young residents in the budgetary process, and is the first initiative of its kind in the nation

In an effort to protect vulnerable homeowners in Massachusetts, Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office today sent a letter to the Joint Committee on Revenue in support of legislation to improve the tax foreclosure process

Attorney General Maura Healey issued the following statement today in response to a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejecting challenges by the coal industry and several coal-producing states to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, a proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under the Clean Air Act

A new report released today outlines that Boston’s Olympic bid offers a unique opportunity to create new neighborhoods, build more housing, improve transportation infrastructure, generate short- and long-term jobs, and increase tourism in the Boston region. But the report says this can happen only if Boston 2024, the Commonwealth, the City of Boston, and neighboring municipalities establish a coordinated planning process that focuses

Hammond agents Karen Kennedy and Sandra Lynch of the Kennedy Lynch Team recently represented clients in connection with two significant Newton transactions. The team represented the seller client in the $2,850,000 sale of 155 Hobart Road and the buyer client in the $2,995,000 sale of 1201 Commonwealth Avenue.

Saul Cohen, Founder and President ofHammond Residential Real Estate, recently announced the $3,705,000 sale of 63 Hillside Road in Brookline, a premier Boston suburb. Hammond agents Eileen Strong O’Boy and Pauline Ho Bynum represented the seller in the transaction, and Matt Montgomery and Kelly Farrell Salem of the Matt Montgomery Group, also of Hammond, represented the buyer.

Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito announced today the opening of the fifth annual round of the MassWorks Infrastructure Program. The competitive grant program invests in local infrastructure projects that leverage housing production and job creation across the Commonwealth

Today a panel of nationally renowned land use and urban planning experts begin a five-day evaluation of metro Boston’s growing industrial land development issues. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) advisory services program convened the panel in order to help the cities of Malden, Massachusetts and Everett, Massachusetts create a plan for how to build on the growing business and mixed-use developments and further develop their unique regional presence and identity.

Affordability for senior citizens and families living at the 82-unit Power Town Apartments in Montague will be extended and property improvements will be made with the closing of $6.9 million in MassHousing financing.

U.S. Senators Gary Peters, member of the Great Lakes Task Force, and Debbie Stabenow, Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, today applauded the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative announcement to allocate $110,448 to the City of Muskegon to fund green infrastructure projects. The City of Muskegon plans to use the grant to install one constructed wetland, two rain gardens, and one bioswale to help the community prevent the discharge of more than 5 million gallons of untreated stormwater into Muskegon Lake and Lake Michigan each year.

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Richard Neal (D-Springfield) today introduced the Bolstering Our Nation’s Deficient Structures (BONDS) Act, legislation that would create jobs helping to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure. The BONDS Act provides financing tools to state and local governments to help build bridges, roads, schools and other local critical infrastructure proj