TRURO — Housing is this year’s top priority for the community preservation committee (CPC), which plans to recommend that annual town meeting voters allocate $440,000 to efforts related to affordable […]
Housing
COMMUNITY PRESERVATION
School Playground, Housing Are Top Priorities for Funding
Committee holds back because of town’s financial crisis
WELLFLEET — The top priority for the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) in the upcoming funding cycle has been the Wellfleet Elementary School playground. Members of the group plan to recommend […]
HOUSING
Half-Acre Lot Will Allow More Units at VFW
Developer will buy adjacent Mendes property for $1.4 million
PROVINCETOWN — A long-running effort to build affordable and community housing at the former VFW site on Jerome Smith Road received a big boost last week when the developer of […]
HOME/MAKING
Baker’s Belvernon Enters a New Era
Historic elements found in the basement and attic reappear in renovations
WELLFLEET — Jay and Allison Bombara love history. Jay is president of the historical society in Farmington, Conn., where the couple live most of the year in an antique house, […]
YEAR IN REVIEW: HOUSING CRISIS
2021 Saw a Growing Determination to Build
A labor crisis and lots of new money mean action is coming
PROVINCETOWN — The Covid pandemic has been called the “great accelerator,” because it took existing trends, like working from home, and societal problems, like the spread of misinformation on social […]
HOUSING CRISIS
Town Meeting Will Decide Funding and Possible Development Sites
Majority of select board favors stronger inclusionary bylaw revision
PROVINCETOWN — The local housing crisis will be on the table repeatedly at the 2022 annual town meeting in a slate of warrant articles to allocate money for housing, to […]
HOUSING
In Two Rulings, Opponents of Rental Developments Lose Out
Judges stand by bond orders for those who file appeals
Judges in two separate courts rendered rulings in the last week that buoyed developers of rental housing in Provincetown and Truro. In both cases, the state’s new Housing Choice Act […]
HOUSING FUNDS
Provincetown Boards Will Revisit Tax Revenue Split
Conservative rental tax estimate could mean housing loses out
PROVINCETOWN — The select board, community housing council, and year-round market-rate rental housing trust will reconvene on Dec. 15 to tackle, for the second time, a slate of housing proposals […]
HOUSING FOR WORKERS
Barracks Appeal to Stay in Superior Court, Judge Rules
No decision yet on whether plaintiffs must post a bond
PROVINCETOWN — An appeal of the planning board’s approval of the workforce housing development known as the Barracks will remain in Barnstable Superior Court. Lawyers for the developer, Provincetown businessman […]
COASTAL BANK
House on the Edge Sells for $5.5M
The controversial Blasch house fetches asking price
WELLFLEET — The Blasch house is no longer Mark and Barbara Blasch’s problem. Ownership of the 5,817-square-foot house perched atop “the Gut,” a rapidly eroding strip of steep coastal bank […]
BEACON HILL
Cyr and Peake Direct Federal and State Relief at Housing Efforts
Legislative earmarks could bring $4.5 million to Cape Cod
PROVINCETOWN — Spending bills being finalized in Boston this week will allocate $2.4 billion in federal relief money from the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed in March, and […]
95 LAWRENCE ROAD
Task Force Backs POAH-CDP Affordable Housing Bid
Eastham-based Community Development Partnership is national nonprofit’s local partner
WELLFLEET — The task force charged with recommending the best developer to build and manage 46 units of affordable rental housing on Lawrence Road has selected a national nonprofit organization […]
COURT REPORT
Judge Is Asked to Require $50K Bond in Barracks Suit
Plaintiffs argue that dorm-style housing doesn’t count as ‘affordable’
PROVINCETOWN — Lawyers for the developer of a proposed workforce housing project — known as the Barracks — and the town’s planning board, which approved the development, have asked a […]
ECONOMY
As Guest Houses Sell, Many Become Private Homes
But innkeeping retains its appeal for some new owners
PROVINCETOWN — For 10 years, Provincetown’s hotel and guest house industry has been characterized by two trends. The total number of hotel rooms has been gradually decreasing, as many properties, […]
PRESERVATION
One of Two Historic Houses Will Be Demolished
The other, in Wellfleet, has been purchased by Mac Hay
EASTHAM — Threatened with demolition, two historic houses, one in Eastham and one in Wellfleet, were temporarily protected by local bylaws that delayed the destruction while alternatives could be explored. […]
