Maxwell's Green is Complete, Says Construction Firm
The project has reshaped a neighborhood in the heart of Somerville.
The construction of Maxwell's Green, a $52.5 million, 184-unit apartment development in the heart of Somerville, is complete, according to an announcement from Callahan, Inc., the general contractor for the project.
The development, at an old industrial site between Lowell and Clyde streets, consists of four buildings and has a yoga studio, fitness center, roof deck and cafe, among other things.
According to ForRent.com, rents at the development range from $1,831 per month for a studio to $3,975 for a three-bedroom townhouse apartment.
Construction on the project officially started in July of 2011. It is adjacent to the future site of the planned Lowell Street Station on the Green Line Extension, which is scheduled to come to the area between 2018 and 2020.
The developers of Maxwell's Green, Gate Residential Properties/KSS Partners, have also put forth proposals to build a hotel in Davis Square and redevelop the site of the former Powder House Community School near Teele Square.
AHM
6:12 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
I wonder if anyone from Somerville can afford to rent one of these. I can't think of a single person I know that could afford these.
Joe Lynch
8:42 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
The contractor says he's done with his part, that may be true. But the developers are far from completing mitigation for the community and conditions of the special permit and covenant. For example, where is the traffic signage promised at the Lowell St. entrance to the complex? Promised.....at a minimum a STOP sign for the vehicles exiting onto Lowell...........completed? NO.
Another, traffic calming measures on both sides of the Lowell St. bridge system approaching from both Magoun Square and Highland Ave. Completed? NO.
Coming soon and still on my radar, the extension of the Community Path from Cedar to Lowell. The state and city will fund most of this, but the developers are responsible for restoring the path to a serviceable state and for promised additional landscaping along the portion of the path adjacent to their property.
Maybe the developers should complete one Somerville project before embarking on others.
Elizabeth Rose
11:00 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
Ugly and expensive. Way to go Somerville. :-\
Somerville Home Owner
12:57 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
I think they are ugly too but hopefully others will disagree. Or else they will stay empty at those prices.
Courtney O'Keefe
1:19 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
There are 14 apartments available ranging from a studio at $1831 to a three bedroom townhouse at $3975.
Petunia
3:36 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Joe,
Keep your eyes open. The city does not follow through on special permits, conditions, etc., for development projects unless forced to by the neighbors. Those items will never get done unless you continue to stay on top of it. Good luck.
AHM
3:42 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Have to agree, even when they do they soon forget. Have seen this many times over the years.
And don't worry Joe, they won't find it without a sign to lead them there<G>>
Somerville Home Owner
9:02 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Somerville doesn't seem to enforce anything but parking. I got $30 ticket because my meter expired 15 min before 8 pm. There were tons of parking spots open so what's the point of enforcing meters at that time?
kevin thomas crowley
11:07 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
way to go joe. stay on them.
the buidings are ugly. looks like a housing project. cheap looking red brick. and the townhouses do not fit in that neighborhood,ugly.
rents of $2,000.00 for meager space, 600 sq. feet, will encourage most landlords to raise the rents throughout the city.
the city is headed in the wrong direction. we are not building communities, rather, we are building transient housing for upscale single people. developers own this city and they are getting more greedy.
Gunther
11:56 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
I agree Kevin the city is heading in the wrong direction, where are the families? I remember going outside and there was always someone out to play with now parents have to make "play dates" because nobody can afford to live in the city anymore they are scattered outside the city to survive....shame...shame
AHM
12:47 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Gunther Not like we had a choice. Get home from school, have a snack and get kicked out to play until supper. Pretty much all the kids in the neighborhood did pretty much the same thing which is why we could find someone. It was tough with my kid as video games were getting started back then, but we still made him go out and play. I would guess most of that stopped by the 80's, or it just seems like it did. Not sure we can make this younger generation realize what it was like then knowing your neighbors and being friends with them. And I mean up and down the street, not just next door. We used to eat together, have backyard cookouts with many of the neighbors. We don't have that anymore here. I have 3 neighbors we get to say hi to and maybe talk a bit. One makes bread and sends it over and I make some baked goods and send it to them and that's about it. I think some things we really should be going back to. Hard to have breakins then, everyone knew all your friends and relatives. Oh well, can't go back.
Kate
4:42 pm on Tuesday, April 9, 2013
What is the fascination with hideous architecture in Somerville? This, the new library designs, and that grotesquerie proposed for Washington St. right outside of Union Square. Has S'ville been transported back in time to 1981 when boxy and homogenous was considered futuristic?