Long-Planned Marlborough Apartment Sees New Movement

MARLBOROUGH, MA — The wheels are starting to turn on a long-planned downtown Marlborough apartment building.

Plans for the apartment building at 28 South Bolton St. at the corner of Granger Boulevard were approved in 2018, but the project has not moved forward since. In recent weeks, buildings have been removed on the parcel, although a building permit for the project is forthcoming, according to Marlborough Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Meredith Harris.

The Bolton Street parcel has also changed hands since plans were approved in 2018, so it's unclear if the project will remain the same size. The permit issued in 2018 allows a five-story building with a mix of 36 one and two-bedroom units, 29 parking spaces and two ground-floor retail spaces.

The site permit also notes that the building is required to have 43 parking spaces for the mix of units. But the previous developer, Southborough-based M&E Ventures Corp., agreed to pay $140,000 to the city to reach the lower number of spaces.

According to the Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, the property was sold in December 2021 for $1.4 million to a Canton-based LLC managed by Srinivas Desaneedi, a dentist based in Norton. He did not immediately return a request for comment about the project.

The South Bolton project is one of several downtown residential developments in the works.

The developer Wood Partners has been approved to construct a 276-unit Alta-branded building at the corner of Lincoln and Mechanic streets. Boston-based JW Capital Partners LLC has proposed a 99-unit building on the east side of Union Common on the site of the John Rowe Funeral Home.

On Thursday, a Newton-based developer will go to the city council's Urban Affairs committee for a hearing on a proposed 12-unit building at 272 Lincoln St. If approved, that building would be located next-door to the Wood Partners Alta building at the end of the Assabet River Rail Trail.