200+ Affordable Housing in Danvers

In a follow-up on our June 15, 2010 post, according to the Salem News, a Danvers developer is proposing to build Conifer Hill Commons, which would consist of 200-240 affordable apartments on 18 acres in and around Rand Circle over the next 3-5 years.

Cindy Dunn, the executive director of the Danvers Housing Authority, said the plan is to build the project in four phases, with the initial phase involving 78 units, some of which would replace 36 units at Rand Circle, an affordable-housing development that dates back to 1982.  Of the remaining phase-one units, 21 would be set aside for senior living and 21 would be 2-bedroom family units, all in a townhouse style, Dunn said.

According to Selectman Gardner Trask, chairman of the town's Affordable Housing Committee, the goal is not simply to meet the Chapter 40B 10% affordable housing threshold but also to create housing opportunities for Danvers families making $66,000 or less.

Rand Circle residents would be offered new units as they are built, and Rand Circle itself would be torn down and redeveloped when the development is complete.  It's tucked behind the Danvers Plaza shopping center on land bounded by Route 1 to the west and I-95 to the east.

Read the entire Salem News article.