Around Town

Five Watertown Homes Sold This Week, See Info Here

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Check out this week’s Watertown home sales. $825,000 – 15-17 Hardy Ave., 2 unit, 11 total room, 5 total bedroom, 2 Family – 2 Units Up/Down multi-family home

$720,000 – 242-244 Edenfield Ave. Unit 244, room, 3 bedroom, 3 full bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse

$647,250 – 155 Highland Ave., 7 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, Colonial single-family home

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 $725,000 – 49 Fuller Road Unit 2, 5 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, 2/3 Family condo/townhouse

$440,000 – 32 Whites Ave. Unit 23, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, condo/townhouse

Real Estate

Plenty of Open Houses to See on Super Bowl Weekend

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A dozen properties around town will host open houses this weekend. $549,900 – 50 Watertown St. U:509, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, Mid-Rise condo/townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 12-1:30 Sunday 12-1:30

$359,000 – 190 Mount Auburn St. Unit 2-1, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Low-Rise condo/townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 12-1 Sunday 11-12

$1,150,000 – 40 Fayette St., 9 room, 5 bedroom, 3 full & 1 half bathroom, Victorian single-family home, Open House: Sunday 2:30-4

$495,000 – 161 Warren St. Unit 161, 6 room, 2 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, 2/3 Family condo/townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 10-11:30 Sunday 10-11:30

$575,000 – 48 Bigelow Ave.

Business

Watertown Dental Office Providing Free Care for People Who Can’t Afford It

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Professional Dental Image provides dental care for people who cannot afford it each month. A Watertown dental practice has started providing free dental care for people in the community who cannot afford it. Professional Dental Image in East Watertown provides free dental care to people with urgent need and who cannot afford to pay for the work, said Dr. M. Zakkoom, who runs the practice with his dental partner Dr. M. Kamel. “We wanted to do it to give back to the community,” Zakkoom said. “Every first Thursday of the month we fit people in with our regular appointments.

71 Salibury Road

Construction of East End House Allowed to Go Ahead, District Councilor Critical of Process

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Neighbors of the project at 71 Salisbury Road say the excavation has impacted their properties, and they did not receive notice. The major excavation for a single-family home on Salisbury Road has drawn the ire of neighbors, and now the District Town Councilor, who questions how the work was allowed by Town officials. Last week, residents alerted the Town Council to the work being done at 71 Salisbury Road, including a major excavation of bedrock which took several days and damaged the roots of trees and shrubs on neighboring properties. The property was purchased in August 2015 by Eamon Fee, one of the developers of the parcel. The Town issued a building permit in August 2018 for a single-family house, which is allowed “by right,” so the project would not have to get approval from the Zoning Board of Appeals.

Around Town

Check Out This Week’s Open Houses in Watertown

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A variety of properties around Watertown will have open houses this weekend. $425,000 – 110 Pierce Road Unit 110, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, condo/townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 12-2 Sunday 12-2

$635,000 – 26 Hosmer St. Unit 26, 7 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, 2/3 Family condo/townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 11:30-1 Sunday 11:30-1

$309,900 – 8-R Riverside St. Unit 2-1, 4 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Mid-Rise condo/townhouse, Open House: Saturday 11-1

$216,613 – 4 Repton Cir. Unit 4215, 4 room, 2 bed, 2 bath mid-rise, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$1,260,000 – 254-256 Sycamore St., 2 unit, 14 total room, 5 total bedroom, 2 Family multi-family home, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$849,900 – 188 Summer St.

Development

LETTER: East End Resident’s Property Negatively Impacted by Excavation for Project Next Door

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Neighbors of the project at 71 Salisbury Road say the excavation has impacted their properties, and they did not receive notice. The following statement was presented to the Watertown Town Council on Jan. 22, 2019:

My wife and I bought a small house in Watertown 8 years ago and we have begun our family there. We love being in Watertown and intend to continue as a part of the community we have found here. In the past week a developer has begun construction on the lot abutting ours. They are constructing a spec house in place of the previous house which was razed 3 years ago when they acquired the land. This new house is to be put on the market as soon as it is completed. The developer delayed construction these years as they sought a solution to squeeze a two-family structure on the small lot but apparently decided that pursuing a special permit would invite too much push back.  

Now they have pulled a permit for construction ‘by right’ and as a first step have undertaken blasting away the large rock ledge upon which the old house was constructed. They have continued this excavation into a second week using two earth moving machines, one to blast the rock and one to scoop it into a line of waiting dump trucks, right up to the property lines on all sides. The grade has been lowered significantly across the entire parcel such that at my property line there is now a shear face of exposed soil and bedrock where the incline which used to continue from our property into theirs has been blasted away. 

As a result two mature maple trees on our property have had their roots exposed and torn away. No attempt whatsoever was made to protect these trees even though doing so would pose no impediment to the construction of the house which they have permitted. Only willful disregard for the impact on neighbors property and desire to remove as much of the existing topography as possible has led to the damaging of these trees.  

Roots of trees on properties abutting 71 Salisbury Road have been damaged by the excavation on the site.

Real Estate

Watertown Single Family Home Sells for $1.5 Million, One of Six Sales This Week

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Five Watertown homes were purchased this week. $1,520,000 – 53 Shattuck Road, 2 room, 7 bedroom, 3 full & 1 half bathroom, single-family home

$577,500 – 17-19 Avon Road Unit 2, 9 room, 4 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, condo/townhouse

$383,000 – 10 Riverside Street Unit 3-1, 4 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Low-Rise condo/townhouse

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$680,000 – 20 Hillcrest Circle Unit 20, 5 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, Low-Rise condo/townhouse

$998,000 – 20-22 Hudson St. Unit 20, 9 room, 4 bedroom, 3 full & 2 half bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse

$365,000 – 2 Pierce Road Unit 2, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse