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Former Naval Air Station Development Will be Self-Governed Village

WEYMOUTH, MA-The former Naval Air Station here gets a new plan that involves developing this 1,450-acre parcel into its own village. A previous plan to develop a mega-mall complex and office park met with fierce local opposition.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on August 20, 2001

WEYMOUTH, MA-A new plan is in the works for the former Naval Air Station here that involves developing the parcel into its own village with senior housing and office and retail space. Previous plans called for a massive mall complex and office park.

This 1,450-acre piece of land–one of the largest pieces of undeveloped land in the Greater Boston area–is 12 miles south of the city and crosses the borders of Weymouth, Rockland and Abington. Virginia-based Mills Corp. was planning to develop a mega-mall complex here but fierce local opposition to the proposal eventually drove the company away.

The new plan–which would be done in stages over a 10-year period–involves 700 units of senior housing, 3.5 million sf of office and retail space, recreation facilities, hotels, a conference center and an 18-hole golf course. Hundreds of acres will be left as open space. “This concept has been talked about over the past year, since the mall idea left town,” Stanley Hurwitz spokesperson for the South Shore Tri Town Development Corp. tells GlobeSt.com. Tri Town is the agency in charge of the station’s redevelopment.

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