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Warren Floats Selling Town Buildings to Buy Old Guard Site

Warren could buy the former National Guard building on Market Street by matching a $610,000 auction bid. Officials said the town's 30-day window is expected to open after a state board meets Nov. 24. The new council, set to be sworn in next month, would make the call. Ideas discussed included selling the Main Street building that houses Head Start, possibly to the program's operator for housing and the program, and eventually selling the Miller Street rescue station. Officials said a $2 million grant is a reimbursement for a rescue station, not cash in hand. No vote was taken.

Warren, RI · 1d
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Lawsuit says Gabriel House owner sold condo with termites | Exclusive

FALL RIVER – A homeowner on Brightman Street has filed a lawsuit against former Gabriel House assisted living facility owner Dennis Etzkorn, claiming he sold her a condominium that leaks and is infested with mold and termites. According to filings in Bristol County Superior Court, Francia Toussaint of 160 Brightman St. has sued Etzkorn and one of his corporations, Detyga LLC, alleging the condo she bought from him turned out to be a lemon. Toussaint claims Etzkorn and Detyga “used cosmetic wall-to-wall carpeting and toxic waterproofing ‘Drylock’ masonry paint to intentionally conceal massive, pre-existing structural envelope failures, rotted bedroom subfloors, and active foundation cracking” from her, home inspectors and the mortgage company. She also claims the building has a “dangerous, unpermitted wiring shell” that could cost more than $17,400 to fix. Laying blame: Company accused of giving oxygen to known smoker in Gabriel House fire Demand letters sent to an attorney for Etzkorn and Detyga in 2025 and 2026 request $125,000 to settle all claims due to repairs she’s had to make, breach of contract, negligence, property damage and more. Responses from Etzkorn’s attorney included in the filing defended the company against the claims and said Toussaint is not entitled

Fall River, MA · 1d

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Pack Your Bags For This Massachusetts Town Where $1,500 A Month Covers Absolutely Everything

There are cities in Massachusetts that will take everything you earn and hand you back a studio apartment and a vague sense of financial anxiety, and then there’s Gardner. Gardner, Massachusetts is the city that quietly decided affordability and quality of life weren’t mutually exclusive, and it has been proving that point for years while the rest of the state wasn’t watching.

Gardner, MA · 9d
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Westborough shopping center headed to foreclosure auction

The Westborough Shopping Center is headed to a foreclosure auction next month. The shopping center on Route 9 in Westborough, is listed for a Dec. 8 auction, according to auctioneers Paul E. Saperstein Co.'s listing website. The plaza is home to a Stop & Shop and Staples, according to the...

Westborough, MA · 2d
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Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Westport rejected Question 7 on housing

Question 7 on “starter homes,” rejected by Massachusetts voters by a slim margin last week, attracted strong opposition in New Bedford’s suburbs. The ballot measure, introduced amidst a statewide housing crisis, would have allowed single-family homes to be built on 5,000 square foot lots, if they were connected to water and sewer services.

Fairhaven, MA · 3d

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Recap: Warren Council Adopts Zoning Rewrite, Advances Sidewalk Snow Fines

Warren's updated zoning ordinance is now adopted, while boat and trailer storage rules were held to December. Proposed fines for not clearing sidewalk snow would start at $200 and cap at $500, pending a second reading. Residents will be able to pay by credit card at the transfer station and Public Works office, with a fee of about 3 to 3.5% passed on to users.

Warren, RI · 1d

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An old Worcester industrial building has sat vacant for years. Now it's getting $1.8M to become 58 apartments

A plan to turn a Worcester industrial building into 58 new apartments received a $1.8 million loan from the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, known as MassDevelopment. The loan for the project, located at 98 Beacon St., was announced by MassDevelopment in a press release on Tuesday. MassDevelopment is a development...

Worcester, MA · 2d

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Market Basket floats plan to add 162 apartments and new shops to its 30-acre property

"We're in love with it. Our City Council is in love with it. Our entire community is in love with it."

Chelsea, MA · 5d

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Century-Old Mill Powerhouse Headed for $20M Apartment Overhaul as New Bedford Tax Deal Advances

New Bedford’s Finance Committee has advanced a 10-year tax break that could unlock a $20 million conversion of the former Nashawena Mills power plant at 620 Belleville Avenue into 47 apartments. The full City Council is set to vote on final approval November 24. Built around 1910, the three-building...

New Bedford, MA · 1d

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At a new South Shore housing development, live where the cranberries grow

Called Cranberry Crossing, the Norwell subdivision is oriented around the adjacent Cross Street Cranberry Bogs. Cranberries have deep roots in Massachusetts. Harvested for centuries and then commercially cultivated for the first time in the 1800s on Cape Cod, the cranberry industry remains alive and well in the state. According to Massachusetts Cranberries (the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association) the Bay State has thousand of acres of bogs and approximately 375 growers statewide.

Norwell, MA · 1d

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Johnston voters rejected eminent domain plan. Town says fight isn't over

JOHNSTON – On Nov. 3, voters in Johnston rejected a ballot measure to amend the town's charter to create a coherent pathway to exercise eminent domain, in response to a federal judge's rejection of attempts to take land slated for an income-restricted apartment complex. Despite that rejection, the Town Council president said the council will be going forward with plans to use eminent domain to take the 31-acre site off of George Waterman Road , relying on an alternative method following the defeat of the charter amendment at the ballot box. U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose ruled that the town's attempt to take property via its charter doesn't work, because the charter doesn't have sufficient provisions to pass constitutional muster, in an ongoing lawsuit filed by the property owners against the town, which the owners' lawyers call a "sham taking." The ballot initiative failed, 54% to 46%, or 4,761 votes against to 4,090 votes for, according to unofficial vote counts. In Johnston, 9,894 people voted , 41% of the 24,015 registered voters. What Johnston needs, either in its charter or for another process, per the federal judge who rejected the initial eminent domain efforts following a lawsuit by the site

Johnston, RI · 2d

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Senior homeowners in New Jersey, Florida, Massachusetts and Louisiana are in line for bigger property tax breaks, from Stay NJ payments of up to $6,500 starting February 2027 to Louisiana exemptions of up to $30,000 where local voters approve them

Four states have lined up bigger property tax breaks for older homeowners, and each one works differently. New Jersey’s Stay NJ program pays up to $6,500 beginning in February 2027 to people who applied by Nov. 2. Florida voters approved a homestead exemption of $150,000 on non-school taxes that starts Jan. 1, 2027, Massachusetts’s draft... The post Senior homeowners in New Jersey, Florida, Massachusetts and Louisiana are in line for bigger property tax breaks, from Stay NJ payments of up to $6,500 starting February 2027 to Louisiana exemptions of up to $30,000 where local voters approve them appeared first on The Financial Wire .

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Nantucket Real Estate Firm Ordered To Pay $1.3 Million in Lawsuit Over Sale Of Polpis Road Property

William Raveis Nantucket and real estate agent Melanie Gowen have filed a notice of appeal in Norfolk Superior Court. A judge and jury have issued a $1.3 million judgment against a major Nantucket real estate firm after finding that one of its agents lied to a couple looking to buy a house on the island in 2020.

Nantucket, MA · 1d

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Vacant Worcester factory to become 58 apartments with MassDevelopment financing

A century-old industrial building that has stood vacant for more than a decade in Worcester’s Main South neighborhood is being transformed into 58 apartments, part of a growing effort to turn the city’s former manufacturing properties into housing. MassDevelopment provided a $1.8 million bridge loan to Beacon Street...

Worcester, MA · 2d

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12 Responds: Condo owner living in a crumbling home

Lisa Petitto has been living in a construction zone after engineers discovered the concrete slab under her condominium started cracking.

North Providence, RI · 1d

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Recap: Cranston Plan Commission Approves 54 Condos, Opposes Shriners LED Sign

Fifty-four two-bedroom condos on Independence Way cleared master plan review, but still need a City Council zone change. The Zoning Board will weigh negative commission recommendations on the Shriners' LED sign and patio, a Webb Street cannabis shop and two Grant Avenue projects. New subdivision rules were adopted, and a commissioner said they could take effect Jan. 1, 2027. Garden City property owners can attend a Nov. 12 historic-nomination meeting, and a Broad Street zoning event is Nov. 17.

Cranston, RI · 2d

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FM to send workers to Massachusetts as part of HQ relocation

Downtown Providence isn’t the only target destination for FM’s planned departure from Johnston. The global insurance company, formerly known as FM Global, is also sending an unspecified number of local workers to Massachusetts as part of a regional approach that includes facilities in Norwood and Boston, the company confirmed in a statement to Rhode Island Current Friday afternoon.

Providence, RI · 17h

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Kirk and Schryver of Compass broker five Barrington transactions for over $11 million

Barrington, RI Elizabeth Kirk and Lisa Schryver of Compass negotiated five transactions totaling $11.292 million. Kirk and Schryver sold 204 Rumstick Rd. for $2.995 million. Kirk and Schryver represented the sellers, and Amanda Bruneau represented the buyer. According to RI Statewide MLS, this is the fifth highest sale in Barrington, YTD.*

Barrington, RI · 1d

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Village at Manville Could Push Lincoln’s Affordable Share Near 9%

Lincoln is still short of Rhode Island’s 10 percent low- and moderate-income housing goal, but not by the margin it once was. The 2026 Housing Fact Book puts that housing at 8.35 percent of the town’s year-round homes and says Lincoln needs 157 more qualifying homes to reach the benchmark.

Lincoln, RI · 1d

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It takes $70,600 to $93,777 a year to raise a young family in Fall River. The typical household earns $63,800.

Housing in Fall River costs far less than in most of Massachusetts. But add up what a young family can’t do without – healthcare, housing, utilities, child care, groceries, a car and a phone – and the bill comes to far more than most households in the city earn.

Fall River, MA · 1d