Boston Suburb To Embrace TOD

Two of Boston's leading suburban developers are partnering up to build a transit oriented development project in suburban Westwood.

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January 19, 2006, 6:00 AM PST

By Mike Lydon

"Two familiar names in Massachusetts commercial real estate are joining up to replace a worn-out industrial park with a $1.5 billion city in the suburbs, where people would live, eat, shop, work, work out, and hang out, right at one of region's busiest transportation hubs.

Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of New England Inc. and New England Development of Newton are busy drawing up plans for Westwood Station, a 4.5-million-square-foot development that would transform 130 underused acres into homes for 1,000 families, and offices or shopping destinations for thousands more.

Thirty or more new buildings would occupy a wide strip along almost a mile of University Avenue next to busy Route 128 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Route 128 Station, which feeds passengers to both commuter and Amtrak trains."

Thanks to Jon Ford

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