Haverhill City Hall. (WHAV News file photograph.)
A former Bradford funeral home with a storied history is slated to become three condominiums if the City Council consents tonight.
Councilors are being asked to approve a special permit to renovate what had been until recently the Bradford Grondin-Carnevale Funeral Home at 52 Salem St. Mazraany Construction of Salem, N.H., proposes to convert the existing home into two units and the garage into a third, all to be sold as condominiums. The company, represented before the City Council by attorney Robert Harb, purchased the property in December for $400,000.
The property served as the Bradford location of C. Frank Linnehan and Son Funeral Home from 1984 to 2009. Previously, Noonan Funeral Home was operated there by Margaret R. Noonan. In a letter to councilors, Harb said the home was originally built in 1920 and requires no variances and has adequate off-street parking spaces.
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A remaining storefront on the south side of Water Street would become eight apartments if the Haverhill City Council tonight steps back from a conviction it declared two years ago.
The owners of the nine-story 1 Water St. building already facing opposition from one city department plans to convert an existing commercial space to bring the total number of residences in the building from 164 to 172.
“The creation and preservation of street level commercial space in our downtown is critical to providing the mix of commercial uses to complement the expanding commercial/residential base in downtown,” Economic Development and Planning Director William Pillsbury Jr. wrote in a letter to city councilors.
By John Lee Grant |
April 1, 2021
(Rendering courtesy of Dacon Corporation, Natick, the architect/construction firm for the Edwards Vacuum Haverhill innovation center.)
The Haverhill City Council gave its okay this week for the city to negotiate a property tax break to bring Edwards Vacuum to Haverhill’s Broadway Industrial Park.
The company, which said previously it will move 200 existing employees here and add 50 new jobs, plans to complete a 121,800-square-foot “innovation and solutions center” by early next year. Haverhill Economic Development and Planning Director William Pillsbury Jr. explained how the tax increment financing plan would work.
“So what we’re here for tonight is to ask for the passage of the resolution to authorize the mayor to move forward with the TIF. The TIF will be very similar to ones we have done for other industries. It will be a five-year term and it be an opportunity to see this company come to Haverhill and plant its roots here and, we
By John Lee Grant |
Developer Timothy Woodland appeared remotely.
The City Council gave its okay last night to a special permit creating five apartments in an existing building near downtown Haverhill.
The property, located at 149-153 Washington St., was recently purchased by Timothy Woodland with the idea of converting the building into five residential units. Currently, the building, which was constructed around 1900, consists of two residential units on the second floor and an unused commercial space on the first floor. Developer Timothy Woodland described his plans for the building.
“The plan is for the three residential units on the bottom floor. One of them is going to be a two-bedroom, one of them would be a one-bedroom and the last one would be a studio. The second floor is split down the middle from front to back. Each of them is a two-bedroom,” said Woodland.