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Northland Investment Corp. has proposed 180,000 square feet of office space as part of its Northland Newton development. RENDERING COURTESY OF NORTHLAND INVESTMENT CORP.
The city of Newton on Tuesday voted to approve a 23-acre mixed-use project with 800 new residential units in Newton Upper Falls. READ MORE »
By Catherine Carlock | Boston Business Journals, March 4, 2020
Demolition work could start before the end of 2020 on a 22.6-acre, 14-building development in Newton’s Upper Falls area following a March 3 vote by residents that broke in favor of the project by more than 5,000 ballots. Construction work would follow in 2021. READ MORE »
By Tom Acitelli | Curbed Boston, March 4, 2020
All politics is local, and for some residents in Newton that meant yesterday’s Super Tuesday vote in the presidential primary took a backseat to a question of what would happen in their backyard. READ MORE »
By Michael Jonas | CommonWealth, March 4, 2020
Newton voters gave a proposed 23-acre project a decisive “yes” in a referendum held alongside Massachusetts’ presidential primary Tuesday night. READ MORE »
By James Sanna | Banker & Tradesman, March 4, 2020
“Newton voters OK Northland’s big mixed-use project, despite predictions of a traffic nightmare,” by John Hilliard, Boston Globe: “After weeks of bitter debate, the city’s voters gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a plan to build hundreds of apartments and new commercial space in Newton Upper Falls. The special municipal election, timed for Super Tuesday, asked voters whether they approved of Northland Investment Corp.'s mixed-use project at the corner of Needham and Oak streets. According to the city clerk’s office, 18,565 voters backed a zoning change needed for the plan to move forward, while 13,449 cast ballots against the project.” READ MORE »
By Stephanie Murray | Politico, March 4, 2020
NEWTON — After weeks of bitter debate, the city’s voters gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a plan to build hundreds of apartments and new commercial space in Newton Upper Falls. READ MORE »
By John Hilliard | Boston Globe, March 3, 2020
Newton will be getting an 800-unit, 1.4-million-square-foot development on Needham Street after residents voted Tuesday 18,565 to 13,449 to approve the Northland mixed-use project, according to the city’s unofficial results. READ MORE »
By Julie M. Cohen | Wicked Local Newton, March 3, 2020
America’s wealthy suburbs need to change. They need to allow more affordable housing, so that low-income families can access top-notch public schools and the lifetime opportunities they create. They need more housing, period, to cool the real estate market that’s crushing middle-class families. And they need denser housing as a way to address climate change.
In other words, they need more housing like the Northland project, a proposed 800-unit development at an old factory site in Newton Upper Falls, whose fate Newton voters will decide in a hotly contested March 3 referendum. The Globe strongly endorses a “yes” vote to approve the project — and not just for its many practical benefits for Newton and for the region, from new parks to set-asides for mom-and-pop businesses. READ MORE »
By The Editorial Board | Boston Globe, February 21 2020
The reigning rules of suburbia have led to a country segregated by income, with the best zip codes and schools closed off to poor families. What happens when a rich city tries to reverse course?
If the city of Newton becomes a trailblazer at tackling inequality this year, it will be because, in 2013, the wealthy, mostly white suburb looked at itself in the mirror — and recoiled. READ MORE »
By The Editorial Board | Boston Globe, February 21 2020
While Newton residents get ready to vote on March 3 whether to reverse their city councilors’ approval of a large development along traffic-clogged Needham Street, the Baker administration this week announced a $396,500 grant to the city to pay for two key traffic fixes in the area. READ MORE »
Banker & Tradesman, February 21 2020
It’s a sad reality that an anti-development group in Newton has forced a city-wide referendum on a well-vetted project. The only democratic way forward is for city leaders to ensure the largest number of people take part.
Northland Investment Corp. worked diligently with city staff and neighborhood groups for three years to craft a valuable plan for a 23-acre site that features a large, 19th century mill building and the vacant former home of Clarks shoe company. The project will bring 800 units of much-needed housing, 140 of them affordable, and dramatically increase the land’s taxable value – but its public benefits go far beyond this. The project will also make $10 million in contributions to the city for new parks, utility infrastructure, road upgrades and school upgrades.
Most importantly, Northland is stepping in where Newton and the MBTA have been unwilling or unable to deal with traffic on the congested Needham Street corridor by building a free, seven-days-a-week bus shuttle to the Newton Highlands Green Line station, attempting to lure as many people as possible out of their cars and onto transit. READ MORE »
Northland Investment Corp’s proposed development in Upper Falls will move forward after city councilors Monday night approved both the Rezoning and Special Permit for the 14 building mixed-use project. READ MORE »
By John Hilliard | Boston Globe, December 3 2019
Newton’s City Council could vote Monday on Northland Investment Corp.’s proposed mixed-use development in Upper Falls – a project that has been touted for its inclusion of new housing and commercial space and has been under review for more than a year by councilors. READ MORE »
By John Hilliard | Boston Globe, November 28 2019
Northland has designed the Newton development with affordability in mind. Once finished, units will range between 50-80% of Newton residents' average income while 20 will be "designated workforce housing." READ MORE »
By John Hilliard | Boston Globe, July 21 2019
Business in Boston’s western suburban communities is booming. Hear from local Newton business owners as they discuss the housing market in the local community in this new video from the Newton Chamber of Commerce. READ MORE »
By Newton Chamber of Commerce, May 7, 2019
If all goes to plan, Northland Investment Corporation, a Newton-based developer will built the largest multi-use development that Newton has seen in a very long time. The latest plans are slated to come before the City Council's Land Use Committee Tuesday, which is the next step in the years-long process that still needs to go through a rezoning approval process, too. READ MORE »
By Jenna Fisher | Patch, Sep 24, 2018
As property owner Northland Investment Corporation moves forward with its plans to redevelop the mill as part of a 23-acre mixed-use project, company officials have been working on a transportation plan to address the congestion problem.
By Julie M. Cohen | WickedLocal, September 24, 2018
Interview with Jeremy Freid — mentions the opportunities that Needham St Project is going to bring. READ MORE »
By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman, August 26, 2018
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