Newton panel reviews revised senior-housing plan for Grove Street project
Newton development swaps hundreds of apartments for senior housing, shrinking garage by two floors.
Other Committee · Meeting of August 6, 2026
Newton development swaps hundreds of apartments for senior housing, shrinking garage by two floors. Mark Development principal Robert Corff told a Newton committee the project's conventional units will fall to 411 from 753 as buildings two and three become a 267-unit senior-living complex, cutting the main garage from 980 to 720 stalls. Corff said the shift eliminates roughly 70 affordable units and floated converting a separate 42-unit building into a fully affordable project funded partly through a payment-in-lieu mechanism he estimated at $6 million.
Corff said there is no legal action in Massachusetts. Greystar, the proposed market-rate operator, addressed the fair-housing question. Ward 4 Councilor Cyrus Domovid said "the idea of homes right by a train station is really exciting." The team plans a Design Review Team meeting Aug. 14 and a zoning-review filing by Sept. 1.
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Source: the Other Committee meeting of August 6, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.
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