1/26/2021
NEW: Developer purchases former Memorial Hospital site
PAWTUCKET – Eighteen months after Lockwood Development Partners signed a purchase and sale agreement on the former Memorial Hospital property on Brewster Street, the developer has closed the deal with Care New England.
Lockwood is planning a housing complex for veterans and an education center, according to an announcement circulating among lawmakers this week from Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien and Lockwood President Charles Everhardt.
“The city of Pawtucket has long supported the redevelopment of the underutilized former Memorial Hospital site to a project that benefits and meets the community’s needs,” said Grebien, who originally introduced Lockwood officials to representatives at Care New England, in a statement. “We thank Charles and his team for their transformational vision to bring a veterans’ facility and the ancillary economic development that it will create to our community. The city will als