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Developers of Former Jewish Rehabilitation Center to Hold Community Forum

The forum on the proposed 184-unit project will be at Swampscott High School Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Room B129.

 

Ask questions and learn about the Hanover Vinnin Square apartment project at a community forum Wednesday, June 12, at Swampscott High.

Project developer the Hanover Company is presenting the forum.

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Hanover proposes 184 units at 330 Paradise Road, the former Jewish Rehabilitation Center, located on the hill across from Whole Foods Market.

The apartments would be for people of all ages, Hanover development associate Canan Safar said.

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A majority, about 53 percent, of the units are to be one-bedroom apartments, with about 38 percent of them the two-bedroom variety and the remainder three-bedrooms, she said.

They would be rented at market rate, an estimated $1,485 to $3,000 per month, the development associate said.

Hanover plans to demolish the existing buildings and construct two, four-floor buildings with New England-style siding on the 6.3-acres site, she said.

Hanover Vinnin Square would include a common area and a pool, and parking for 303 vehicles or about 1.6 spaces per unit.

The complex would have its own security.

The single bedroom units will range from 750 to 995 square feet; the two bedrooom's from 1,100 to 1,300 square feet; and the three bedrooms at about 1,450 square feet.

The JRC still owns the property but Hanover has a purchase and sales agreement on it, the spokeswoman said.

Hanover is slated to appear before the Swampscott Zoning Board of Appeal to request a special permit to build multiple-family residential untis.

Hanover representatives have met with the town planner, the town administrator and residential and commercial neighbors, Safar said.

The spokeswoman said the developer has not heard opposition to the project.

She said the project would contribute property taxes of over $500,000 a year.

it is reasonable to assume the all-ages project would add students to local schools as well.

Hanover, a Houston-based company, has developed in Needham, the Charles River Landing project, and will be constructing the University Station development in Westwood.

Late last year, the Boston Globe reported that Westwood school officials commissioned an independent look at the number of students the University Station development would add to the already crowded school system.

Jill Sullivan, chairman of the Swampscott Board of Selectmen, said Wednesday's forum will give those who care about development in town a chance to interact with the developers and ask questions at an informal setting. 

The developer thinks there will be a demand for the units given their closeness to bus and train lines, Vinnin Square stores and the ocean.

If all goes well they would like to have people living in the apartments in the fall of 2015.


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