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Category Archives: real estate
Wellesley Home Design Center closes
Wellesley Home Design Center, at 555 Washington St., has shut down, its website is no more and a For Rent sign is in the window. The business opened in Wellesley last year. Missed that in our recent survey of vacant commercial space in town. var AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = [...]
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What $1M and $10.7M buys you in Wellesley
A couple of homes for sale in Wellesley have caught our attention: * A 1-bedroom house built in 1922 at 2 Lake Rd. on Morses Pond features a dock and separate artist’s studio. According to a listing on Zillow, “There will be a sealed bid on this property on Monday August 30th. Showings until August [...]
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Wellesley Grossman’s sign: What would Alexander Graham Bell think?
Overlooked in all the excitement over the Grossman’s sign going down in Wellesley yesterday and the orange-and-white building on its way to being demolished at 27 Washington St. is the fact that Alexander Graham Bell used to live in a house on this property back in the 1870s, the same time during which he invented [...]
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Wellesley Grossman’s sign goes down: The video
The Grossman’s sign at 27 Washington Street in Wellesley Lower Falls went down around noon today to make way for National Development’s new office/retail/housing construction project, which will start going up in the fall. I actually came across a Globe story from the mid-1990s referring to the space as the “old Grossman’s lot,” so it’s [...]
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Wellesley’s Grossman’s sign going down Tuesday
National Development, the outfit that purchased the old Grossman’s lot on lower Washington Street in Wellesley, says it will topple the Grossman’s sign Tuesday at noon. The demolition of the sign, and later orange-and-white building, will pave the way for an office/retail building, plus senior housing.The sign toppling — which probably won’t be quite as [...]
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See ya Wellesley, enjoy the McMansion…
The Globe Magazine from Sunday features an article about “The March of the McMansions” and naturally Wellesley makes a cameo appearance, as the owner of a Colonial on Tanglewood Road bids neighbors farewell: “I have no sentimental feeling about it,” says Harold Ottobrini, who lives on Tanglewood Road in Wellesley, which is one street over [...]
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Wellesley board approves biggest house in the history of earth
When a 7,200 sq. ft. Cliff Estates home described on Zillow as a “distinctive 1938 English Country Estate on over 1.5 acres of level professionally landscaped grounds with private magnificent gardens and walkways in continuous bloom” doesn’t quite cut it, the next logical step is to tear it down and erect a house roughly double [...]
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Wellesley Hills now a “Nabe”
Wellesley has been targeted by yet another Internet startup, this newcomer designed to help people figure out the best neighborhoods to live in or visit. NabeWise got its start in January when it launched its neighborhood ranking and discovery website in San Francisco and New York City, and Boston Metro is its latest expansion (Chicago, [...]
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MACRIS: How to really house hunt in Wellesley
The Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) is a really swell website for looking up the way back history of your home or a home you might be thinking of buying in town. The system also has historical info on neighborhoods and other structures in Wellesley. My introduction to MACRIS came while researching town sites [...]
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Another Wellesley teardown
This teardown, at 16 River Glen Rd. in Wellesley MA, involves a home sold to a builder. Thanks to DN for passing along the photos.
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Wellesley Town Meeting wraps up
Wellesley Town Meeting ended last night, with meeting members voting in favor of adopting a sustainable energy plan and forming a standing committee to support the plan. Also approved: closing a loophole in the Large House Review policy that had enabled developers to avoid including unfinished attic space in original measurement of a house’s size; [...]
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Wellesley named 1 of best places to live…but we already knew that
Boston Magazine includes Wellesley in its Best Places to Live issue, specifically including the town among those where “opportunity knocks,” alongside Weston, Dover and Sherborn: “Opportunity is relative, of course, and in the MetroWest that doesn’t necessarily mean affordable. But if you’ve got the money, a million ain’t what it used to be — in [...]
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Seniors at center of Wellesley's new Grossman's lot plan
The Townsman reports that the company developing the old Grossman’s lot site in lower falls still plans to build a retail/office building but has changed the focus of its apartment complex to focus on senior citizens. The plans for the independent and assisted living housing were aired before the Board of Selectmen on Monday. Benefits [...]
There goes another Wellesley house
A stealth photographer sent along this photo of a fresh River Glen Rd. tear-down, not far from another recent demolition. The shutterbug quipped: “Perhaps this activity is an early sign of an improving housing market — or maybe just some builders who don’t know when to stop.” // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < [...]
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