Newton, Massachusetts Community Preservation Program  >>  Proposals & Projects

Wyman Street Apartments
location:
  52-54 Wyman Street
Waban, MA 02468
goals:
  Create 10 deed-restricted units of rental housing for households with up to 50 precent of the area median income, in a 1950s building in the village center of Waban, on the MBTA's Green Line.
total
funding:
 
$1,000,000 CP funds appropriated  (community housing)
$1,550,000
City of Newton inclusionary zoning funds
$1,000,000
Village Bank mortgage
$17,995 CDBG de-leading grant (Newton fed'l funds)

$3,567,995

total project cost
contacts:
  Harvey Epstein
Newton Housing Authority
82 Lincoln Street
Newton Highlands, MA 02461
email: hepstein@newtonhousing.org
phone:  617.552.5501

PROPOSAL REVIEW & APPROPRIATIONS:
October 2004
  proposal, with separate map/photos and information on
project financing
10 December  2004
  Planning Dept. staff memo
15 December 2004
  CPC funding recommendation (revised April 2005)
19 April 2005
  CPC memo to Board of Aldermen on tenant income levels
19 April 2005
  Board order (appropriation)

PROJECT NEWS:
27 July 2005
  project grant agreement
May 2009
  confirmation of total project costs


CONTACT:  
Alice E. Ingerson, Ph.D., Community Preservation Program Manager
Newton Planning & Development Department,
City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, MA 02459
phone 617.796.1144, email  aingerson@newtonma.gov, TDD / TTY 617.796.1089