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Update: Wellesley’s future laps of luxury

UPDATE: (Dec. 1, 2010): An Epoch rep says that as for Waterstone at Wellesley rates  it is “really too early to project and the market rates at that time of 2012 will sort of force the rates.” A Swellesley Report reader recently inquired into just how much it will cost to enjoy the amenities afforded [...]

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Temple Beth Elohim: Wellesley’s other big construction project

While all eyes have been on the Wellesley High School and former Grossman’s/soon-to-be Waterstone at Wellesley construction projects in recent months, Temple Beth Elohim on Bethel Rd. off of Cedar Street has quietly been building a new Makom (home) –  a many-windowed, eco-friendly facility that’s set to have a dedication next month and a public [...]

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Wellesley, Weston realtors join forces

We mentioned last week that the old Kaps space at 54 Central St. in Wellesley Square would be filled by a real estate business and now more details have been released. Three ex-Coldwell Banker VPs/realtors –   Sheryl Simon and Amy Mizner out of Weston and Debi Benoit out of Wellesley  (pictured here in that order) [...]

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“Waterstone at Wellesley” replacing “Old Grossman’s Lot”

While there’s no doubting that “The Old Grossman’s Lot” had a certain ring to it, National Development has named the soon-to-be-erected luxury senior housing buiding at the lower Washington Street site to the slightly more elegant Waterstone at Wellesley. The retail and office building on the site, which will include a Newton-Wellesley Hospital ambulatory surgical [...]

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Filling up Wellesley Square’s Kaps gap

Word is that the former Kaps store at 54 Central St. in Wellesley Square has been rented after a vacancy stretching back to early last year. We hear the new tenant will be (drumroll please)…. a real estate business. It will be nice to have that storefront filled since the town has quite a few [...]

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Tian Fu feeding frenzy

Tian Fu Restaurant, which is trying to stave off its shutting down this month as a result of a deal between Whole Foods and landowner Gravestar, is holding a rally Monday late afternoon/early evening (4:30-730pm) to raise awareness about its plight. Tian Fu would like to stay put at 446 Washington St. in Wellesley, or [...]

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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. Your Ad Here

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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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