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180 Franklin Street project returns to planning board later; applicants continue in-person presentation, board continues to Feb. 6
Summary
The 180 Franklin Street redevelopment team presented revised elevations and facade changes to the Framingham Planning Board on Jan. 16; the board praised revisions but asked for further design work and continued the hearing to Feb. 6.
Representatives for 180 Franklin Street returned to the Framingham Planning Board on Jan. 16 with an updated design intended to soften a previously blank façade and add residential-scaled entries at street level. Attorney Terry Morris introduced the team and architect renderings that showed recessed central entrances, five first-floor storefront-style entrances, projections, varied cladding, and a new rooftop level with solar panels and amenity space.
The applicant said the redesign responded to earlier board comments calling for a less institutional and more residential appearance. "What we did was to create individual entrances to each of those 5 entrances directly to the street, so it gives that more of a residential…
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