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Council approves special permit to convert downtown historic buildings into about 111 apartments
Summary
The Springfield City Council approved a special permit for adaptive reuse of four historic downtown buildings at 113 Main/State/Stockbridge streets into roughly 111 apartments with ground-floor retail; developers said work will start in spring and coordinate with the community music school.
The Springfield City Council on Monday approved a special permit to convert a cluster of historic downtown buildings at Main, State and Stockbridge streets into a mixed-use residential project that developers said will total about 111 apartments and roughly 150,000 square feet of space.
The permit, granted during the council’s Oct. 20 meeting at Springfield City Hall, clears the way for McCaffrey Interests to adaptively reuse the Clock Tower Building, the Colonial Building and adjacent Stockbridge properties into mostly market-rate apartments with retail on the ground floor. The project is seeking historic tax credits, the applicant said.
The project matters because it targets a large, prominent downtown block and aims to reactivate street-level retail, provide compact apartments aimed at young professionals and repair badly deteriorated building fabric, councilors and the developer said.
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