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July 26, 2005: Air base plans get the final approval votes Sept. 28, 2004: Tri-Town won’t hire consultant to review plan Sept. 24, 2004 The Patriot Ledger Home Page
Projected benefits for Weymouth, Rockland, Abington2008-2011 Additional taxes: $5.5 million School and municipal services cost: $2.6 million Additional K-12 students: 212 Net benefit: $2.9 million
2011-2014
2015-2017
Total: 2008-2017
Proposed open space and recreation
New homes building schedule2008-2011: Total 1,010
2011-2014: Total 1,145
2014-2017: Total 700
Total at full build out: 2,855
Source: Lennar Partners
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Sept. 24, 2004
BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRYNew plan changes emphasis on jobsThe Patriot Ledger WEYMOUTH – Fewer on-site jobs and an emphasis on the booming biotechnology industry distinguish the latest proposal for the future of the South Weymouth Naval Air Station. Biotechnology workers earning an average annual wage of $70,000 comprise more than half the estimated 2,533 permanent jobs on the site, according to a plan presented last night. The proposal unveiled by California-based master developer Lennar Partners bore little resemblance to a rejected plan for a shopping mall, which would have created 8,843 full-time jobs, mostly in retail.
By contrast, Lennar’s pitch centers around small-town villages flanked by biotechnology firms. The result is a plan that calls for creation of one-third of the jobs that would have existed with the shopping mall. “This cannot be a successful community unless there are jobs on site,” said Evan Rose, a Lennar design consultant. Creating jobs has been a chief requirement of U.S. Navy officials, who have yet to give South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp., the local redevelopment agency, the final 835 acres of the base property. “The Navy is not going to transfer this thing on a no-cost basis unless we can establish creation of jobs,” said Greg Morrell, a Lennar vice president.
One Navy official connected with the environmental cleanup on the base suggested the Navy would want to see more jobs created as a condition for handing over the land without charge. “The Navy would like to have more jobs than are being proposed,” said Mark Leipert, project manager for the environmental cleanup team. The plan foresees employing from 2,874 to 6,049 union construction workers at any given point over the course of a 12-year building effort, a fact that appeared to delight dozens of labor guild members at the presentation. Additional on-site employment includes 444 retail jobs, 462 office jobs, 200 hotel staffers, and 33 golf course workers, according to the proposal.
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Roads Trotter Road would be open to the public, allowing
people to drive onto the property and to get from the site to the MBTA station.
South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp. is responsible
for building a four-lane parkway that runs east to west through the property,
connecting with Weymouth Street in Rockland.
Design work on improvements to four miles of Route 18,
from Route 3 in Weymouth to Route 139 in Abington, is under way. Work on the
intersections of Route 139 and Route 18 and Pond and Pleasant streets is due to
be finished by the end of 2005. Work on Route 18 intersections with Middle and
West streets and Park Avenue and Columbian Street is expected to begin in 2005.
The second phase of the Route 18 work, from Shea Memorial Drive to Route 139, is
expected to be finished by 2013.
Proposed work on roads east of the base includes new
turn lanes on Weymouth, Sharp and Hingham streets and widening of a part of
Hingham Street from two lanes to four. Impact on trafficTotal new projected trips in and out of site New trips divided by two equals the number of vehicles added to nearby roads. Daily trips at full build out: 20,000
Peak at rush hour: 2,000 Water Weymouth currently supplies up to 150,000 gallons per day to the property
Lennar estimates the site will need at least 1 million gallons of water per
day by 2017
Lennar proposes to tie into the MWRA system, at a cost of $25 million
South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp. would issue the
bonds to pay for the tie-in and recoup its cost by charging user fees to the
people and businesses on the property Sewer Lennar proposes to build a $15 million wastewater treatment plant on the
site
South Shore Tri-Town Development Corp. would issue the bonds to pay for the
plant and recoup the cost by charging user fees to residents and businesses on
the property
Some of the treated wastewater will be used to irrigate playing fields and
the 212-acre golf course Source: Lennar Partners
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