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Alewife projected development sites and projects

Proposed and Potential Developments in the Alewife Area

Site

City/Town

Description

Area

# Parking Spaces

Sewage

EOEA #

Status

Mugar Property

Arlington

300,000 sf office

 

17 acres (most in 100 yr floodplain)

1,150

22,500 gpd

12307

Scoped by MEPA, no Draft EIR yet

O’Neill (Belmont Uplands)

Belmont

(part in Cambridge)

original: 245,000 sf office

revised: 250 units residential (300,000 sf)

12 acres

original: 750

revised: 500

50,000 gpd

12376

Final EIR for office park completed summer 2003

No EIR filed yet for residential project

McLean Hospital

Belmont

111 condos, 480 elderly units, 150,000 sf R&D, 50,000 hospital expansion

Total = 800,000 sf

238 acres

2,700

126,000 gpd

12408

EIR completed 2002

Concord-Alewife Development Plan

Cambridge

1.3 mill sf office, 1.3 mill sf housing, 175,000 sf retail

Total = 2.8 mill sf

275 acres

~3,000

400,000 gpd

 

No MEPA filing yet.

Martignetti

Cambridge

347 units or 416,000 sf (proposed 2001)

plus 125,000 sf office

8 acres (most in 100 yr floodplain, some wetlands)

416 residential

310 to replace 200 for office

~85,000 gpd

 

No MEPA filing yet

Bullfinch (ADL site)

Cambridge

900,000 sf office (to replace existing bldgs, now about 100,000 sf)

40 acres

1,050 (to replace 750)

70,000 gpd

 

No MEPA filing yet

Alewife Center (Grace site)

Cambridge

1,050,000 office, hotel and retail (1988 proposal)

150,000 sf retail, 250 units, 150,000 sf hotel, 87,000 sf office (1996 proposal)

20 acres

 

2,400 (1988)

 

150,000 gpd (1988)

120,000 gpd (1996)

5869 (1988)

Notice of project change withdrawn with no MEPA action.  On hold; undergoing 21E review.

TOTALS

 

6,825,000 sf

almost 1 sq. mile

(of 7 sq miles in the Alewife  sub-watershed)

11,525

908,000 gpd

 

 

Compiled by Steve Kaiser.