UPDATED: Windsor Estates Unveils New Model Home

For the past couple of years, a luxury 55 and over housing development has been taking shape off Salem Street behind the Lynnfield Senior Center. Here's a look at the new model home unveiled at Windsor Estates this week.

The first seven homes reportedly sold last year at Windsor Estates, and each of the next two years should see a dozen or so additional homes constructed there. Many of the homes are two-bedroom with about 2,400 square feet of living space.

For more about Windsor Estates, visit its website here.

Finally, on a side note: Over the past year or so, readers have commented on this website on at least several occasions asking about a ball field that had been expected to be constructed in this area. During a visit to the development on Wednesday, Sales Director Jane Lane told Lynnfield Patch that the ball field was part of a former plan for this site and will not be a part of Windsor Estates. A site plan shows a vestige of what would have been the former ball field, behind units 7 through 14, now apparently to be used for a water containment area.

The town's assistant to the administration, Bob Curtin, told Lynnfield Patch in a follow-up email that the plan for the ballfield was previously for it to be finished upon completion of the homes. The development's septic system would have been located under the ballfield, with the land owned by the town with an easement for the developer. However, a change in state rules reportedly barred the developer from having a septic system on land it did not actually own.

Town officials and the developer decided after that rule changed that it would be very difficult and expensive to re-establish the ballfield elsewhere on Windsor Estates land. Curtin reported that the developer, Gregg Monastiero, is still expected to help the town create a new ballfield at some other site to be determined.