Thursday, May 9, 2013
A technical advisory committee includes elected officials, residents, city staffers and a Teele Square business owner.
The city has announced the formation of an advisory committee that will review six development proposals for the Power House Community School site near Teele Square. The school closed in 2004, and the city issued a request for proposals on Dec. 26, 2012, seeking development pitches for the 1.85-acre plot of land. See a summary of the six development proposals. The Powder House Community School Technical Advisory Committee will review the six proposals and make a recommendation to the mayor's office about which one is best. Here's the list of people on the committee: Somerville residents: Somerville City staff: What Developers Want to Build at the Powder House School Six Developers Submit Powder House School Proposals City Officially Seeks …
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A review committee will assess the proposals this spring, according to a city spokesperson.
Update, March 8: According to an email from the Somerville Community Corporation, they are the group behind the proposal put forth by Davis Square Architects. A clarification has been made below in the original story. ORIGINAL STORY: Six developers submitted proposals to build at the site of the Powder House Community School near Teele Square, according to the city of Somerville. The school closed in 2004, and the city issued a request for proposals on Dec. 26, 2012, seeking development pitches for the 1.85-acre plot of land. Proposals were due at the end of February, and here are the six development groups that submitted proposals: Jaclyn Rossetti, a spokesperson for the city, said the next step in the process is to form a review …
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
All sorts of development proposals—research and development, hotel, office, residential, and other ideas—are on the table.
The city has formally issued a request for proposals for the Powder House Community School near Teele Square and could choose a developer by the end of March. The request for proposals, issued Dec. 26, asks prospective buyers to describe what they would plan to do with the property. The city would consider an array of proposals, including research and development, hotel, office, institutional and residential space. It would also consider plans that contain some retail space, according to the request. The school was closed in 2004, according to the request for proposals, and has remained virtually unused since then. Thomas Champion, a spokesperson in the mayor's office, said the entire process, from the day the request for proposals was …
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Monday, October 22, 2012
The school has been vacant since 2003, and the city would like to hear ideas for redeveloping the site.
The city of Somerville will "test the waters" by issuing a request for proposals this fall for development of the vacant Powder House School near Teele Square, according to George Proakis, Somerville's director of planning, who spoke at a ResiStat neighborhood meeting Thursday. The school, at 1060 Broadway, has been closed since 2003, and the city would like to sell the site and collect property taxes from whatever development occurs, Proakis said. "We are interested to see what's out there," Proakis told people at the Ward 7 neighborhood meeting, which was held at the Tufts Administration Building, next to the school. "We want a partner who can work with us and the community," Proakis said. Beyond that, he indicated the city would …
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Sand Man
2:58 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013
Excellent point! more ›