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A couple of homes sold this week in town, see the sales price below. $255,000 – 32 Whites Avenue Unit F5501, 3 room, 1 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Mid-Rise condo/townhouse
Sponsored by:
$220,000 – 50 Carey Ave Unit 10, 4 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Garden condo/townhouse
You may have noticed that the Tufts Health Plan building on Mt. Auburn Street has been lit up purple this week. The employees have been donning purple outfits too. The company is once again observing World Alzheimer’s Month with activities to help bring an end to the disease. Over the past week, employees from all locations wore purple to raise awareness and show support for current sufferers and their caregivers.
The owner of Watertown’s newest eating spot moved to town because it is a town on the rise, food wise. “Renaissance is a good word,” Farmer’s Market Kitchen chef Adam Nazzaro said of Watertown’s changing atmosphere. “You don’t want to take away from everything that happened here with the Marathon, but sometimes that can spark something better than itself. Watertown reminds me of Somerville; I’ve been living in Union Square and it reminds me of that, five or six years ago.”
He sees the city undergoing a transition, as “on the up,” with young professionals and a “hipster crowd” starting to move in, attracted by proximity to Boston and decent public transportation without the exorbitant real estate costs of Newton or Belmont. As the Boston Globe just reported, Watertown was deemed the third-best town in New England to live in, taking taxes, crime, amenities, and commute into account.
When Dan D’Amico needs to figure out how to create and place a crown, he heads to his office to look at a 3-D image of his patients teeth. Then he mills the new tooth, bakes it in a small oven in his Main Street office and can place it that same day. The Watertown dentist decided to use high tech tools at his practice – D’Amico Dental Care – to speed up his work and make it more precise. “With 3-D we can see things we couldn’t see before,” D’Amico said. Now he can take a 3-D X-ray of his patient’s mouth, then go and create the tooth using special software.
A national group named Watertown-based Tufts Health Plan the top health insurance provider in two categories. Tufts received the No. 1 ranking among both private insurance plans and Medicaid health insurance plans, known as Network Health. “Being recognized for offering the nation’s top-ranked private and Medicaid health plans is tremendous recognition that reflects our unwavering commitment to providing affordable, high-quality health care coverage to our members no matter their age or life circumstance,” said James Roosevelt Jr., chief executive officer, Tufts Health Plan. “It’s a shared accomplishment for our entire community of members, employees, providers, employers and brokers.”
The Health Insurance Plan Rankings 2014-2015 were announced by the National Committee for Quality Assurance this week.
Four home sold in Watertown this week, including one for more than $1 million. $420,000 – 16 Morrison Road 4 room, 2 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, Ranch single-family home
$483,500 – 649 Main St., 6 room, 3 bedroom, 1 full & 1 half bathroom, Colonial single-family home
Sponsored by:$1,100,000 – 74 Russell Avenue, 13 room, 7 bedroom, 3 full & 1 half bathroom, Victorian single-family home
$745,000 – 169 Standish Road, 7 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, Colonial single-family home
A new project proposed for the corner of Arsenal and Irving streets will serve as a guinea pig for the town’s new zoning rules and regulations. Developers Greystar Real Estate, which is working with local partners Oaktree FX, met with the general public for the first time on Monday at the Police Station and presented their current vision for the 5.79 acre project that will include 278 apartments and 15,000 square feet of retail space. Brandon Henry, who runs development for Greystar in the Northeast, thanked the town for inviting Greystar to be the “demonstration project” for the new zoning rules. “We want your feedback and ideas so we can incorporate it into the development. I have seen a lot of developments and in my opinion this site is the best one in Watertown,” Henry said.
Enough is enough! I oppose:
As a resident of Irving Street for over 58 years and property owner, I am convinced that this plan will exacerbate the Irving Street/Arsenal Street corridor. Irving Street provides important access for emergency vehicles so they can quickly get to emergency situations, as it did during the “Marathon Bombers” terrorist attacks in Watertown. In the first place, the location surrounding the proposed housing of 300 units, a market, a restaurant and retail shops is already an overly dense area, and not suitable for the Greystar development project. I am convinced that the project will definitely have an adverse affect on the neighborhood.