Tag: Gloucester Crossing

Apply for Halyard apartments housing lottery Gloucester Crossing #GloucesterMA

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Concept rendering* of Halyard apartments at Gloucester Crossing (*vantage is off- not sure where RT 128 is, but “look” of apartments is suggested); July 2020 photographs of the construction here
View from Gloucester Crossing (CVS & Starbucks) back across new YMCA at right (Rt.128 out of frame on right); and Haylard apartments left, Gloucester Mass _©c ryan Jan. 2021

30 housing lottery APARTMENTS

Looming application deadline for the housing lottery. See SEB info & flyers below:

OVERVIEW:

At Halyard, discover a collection of modern residences and thoughtful amenities that set a new wave for apartment living in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Walkable to everyday shopping necessities, close to downtown and the waterfront, and right next door to a brand new, state-of-the-art YMCA, Halyard will offer a contemporary haven for a lifestyle of fair winds and following seas. Located just off Blackburn Circle in Gloucester, Halyard will offer 200 apartments consisting of studio, one and two-bedroom apartment homes featuring spacious layouts and high end finishes with granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, and vinyl plank flooring in all living/dining areas. 30 affordable apartments will be ready for occupancy starting in 2021. All affordable apartments will be rented to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income through this application process.

The community includes a 5,365 square foot Clubhouse that features a great room with tasting kitchen, fitness center, and a game room with shuffleboard and foosball. Work from home space is also available in the collaborative coworking areas. Four legged friends are always welcome with our pet wash and grooming station available, 24/7. Outdoor amenities include a gaming area, fire pit and BBQ area. Halyard is a smoke-free, and pet friendly community. Halyard is sure to set a new standard for apartment living with first occupancy expected in February 2021.

SEB housing

Info packDownload
30 pp application Haylard apt applicationDownload

KEY DATES

January 11, 2021: Information Session: 6:00pm via YouTube at https://youtu.be/1CVjPJsGXlY (or just search for SEB Housing) and via Conference Call – (425) 436-6200. Code: 862627

February 12, 2021: Application Deadline: 100% complete applications must be submitted by 2pm

February 25, 2021: Lottery: 6:00pm via YouTube at https://youtu.be/8d7alq3O9Yw (or just search SEB Housing) and conference call — (425) 436-6200. Code: 862627

Maximum Allowable Household Income

1 Person Household: $67,400

2 Person Household: $77,000

3 Person Household: $86,650

4 Person Household: $96,250

SEB housing

photos at top: January 2021 Halyard apartment complex and YMCA construction status. For July 2020 photographs of the construction, see here

Gloucester Crossing | Cape Ann YMCA and Halyard Apartments state of construction

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Late October 2020

Compare with July 2020 here

Gloucester Crossing | Halyard apartments and new YMCA progress July 2020 #GloucesterMA

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See more from March 2020 here

 

July 2020 (apartments will have view of historic Net & Twine)

 

March progress at Gloucester Crossing and great view of Strong Group historic Net & Twine building

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March 2020

Great view back to 1884 historic Gloucester Net & Twine factory and big chimney_ since 1932 Strong Group leather and other ancillary businesses_maplewood Avenue_Gloucester Mass_20200303_c ryan

Sweeping drop view across construction sites to Gloucester Net & Twine building, Strong Group

About the future Glen T. Macleod Center Cape Ann YMCA (opening fall 2020) here

 

About Gloucester Net & Twine building –

Besides the leather factory (founded in 1932), Strong Group businesses on site for three generations of the Cutter family include advertising and product and promotional projects. Prior to the leather business, the historic factory was built and incorporated in 1884. Gloucester Net & Twine quickly ramped up as a major ancillary supplier for the fishing industry. It’s one of the largest oldest factories still standing and was placed on the National Historic Registry in 1996. Eight volumes of historic plan books for Gloucester Net & Twine Company are in the collection of Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum. 

Gloucester Net & Twine Company is included in the National Park Service maritime history trail in MA. Gloucester is one of the cities with the most sites–only Boston has more. Besides this historic factory building, other Gloucester sites on the maritime trail include: Our Lady of Good  Voyage, East Gloucester Square Historic District, Man at the Wheel, Schooner Adventure, Ten Pound Light,  Eastern Point Light Station, and Annisquam Harbor Light Station. – C. Ryan, July 2016

Steel framing rising Gloucester Crossing #GloucesterMA

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January 2020

Dec 27 2019

So this is the Danvers RMV (plenty of room for another branch at #GloucesterMA Crossing)

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The new Registry of Motor Vehicles is situated in a long empty, 6,983 ft’ free-standing building in the Danvers Crossing Shopping Plaza, 8 Newbury St. (Rt. 1), Danvers, Massachusetts. The Hardcover and Costco are across the highway. Businesses sharing the parking lot include Ann & Hope, Dollar Store, David’s Bridal, and Monkey Joe’s. (I didn’t know there were still Ann & Hopes.) A number of vacancies remain. The shopping center was originally built out in 1990.

Prior to this move, the RMV had landed at Liberty Tree Mall. This new branch was expected to receive 500 visitors per day. It’s open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. rather than the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. broadcast ahead of time.  We have been a couple of times recently to this new one; they were quite helpful. (Make certain to arrive by 4pm on any given day or you’ll have to make a second trip. We learned this the hard way arriving for the first time at 4:35pm.) I never visited the RMV when it was in the mall. I have mostly been to the Revere location.

Reporter Paul Leighton followed the RMV Danvers relocation for the Salem News,

“The good news for North Shore residents is that the Registry of Motor Vehicles is finally planning to open a branch in Danvers after two years without one in this area. The bad news? The new place will cost taxpayers a lot more than the old one.

The registry announced last week that it had signed a 10-year lease to open an RMV branch in a former restaurant building at the Danvers Crossing shopping plaza on Route

The rent for the first year will be $350,616 — nearly 10 times as much as the $41,729 that the state paid in the final year of its lease at the Liberty Tree Mall.

A spokesman for the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, which handles leasing for the state, said the agency does not comment on lease negotiations.

Danvers state Rep. Ted Speliotis acknowledged the new lease payments will be much higher at Danvers Crossing. But he said that’s more a reflection on the great deal the state had at the Liberty Tree Mall.

Speliotis said the registry moved into the mall during tough economic times, when malls and other retail landlords were desperate for tenants. Liberty Tree even offered the space for free for the first three years, from 2010 to 2013.

“We were in the worst recession of our lifetime and the mall needed the foot traffic,” Speliotis said. “That was a once-in-a-lifetime deal.” Read the full article,  “RMV deal finally done, but taxpayers will pay” April 30, 2018: here

The Danvers RMV wasn’t busy the times we went December 2019. Still, it remains a bit of a slog* to get to that RMV (or Revere or Wilmington) from Gloucester. Having been to this new one, I’m not sure why there can’t be a branch in Gloucester as well, perhaps at Gloucester Crossing.

*Having to go 5x in the past two months plus needing to get there by 4pm makes it a slog. Revere and this are a toss up.

Gloucester Crossing

Photos below: Gloucester Crossing December 2019 looking in the direction of Starbucks (on right) and future pharmacy (free standing building on left, next to Aspen Dental)

Before the Danvers build out- What about a DMV at Gloucester Crossing post here

What a mess!

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Barrels outside Marshall’s, Gloucester Crossing

One store employee said everything outside is Market Basket’s responsibility. Not sure why they’re not emptied or why people keep adding. It reeks back here. (Barrels by pizza shop were empty.) It is their front door entrance.

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Fuller School demolition progress #GloucesterMA

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April 2017

April 2017- looking across field Fuller School to windmill_20170414_©c ryan

April 2019

 

November 2019

NOVEMBER 2019- Fuller school demo future YMCA and _20191117_Gloucester Mass ©c ryan (2)NOVEMBER 2019- Fuller school demo future YMCA and _20191117_Gloucester Mass ©c ryan (3)

 

Fuller School demo #GloucesterMA

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April 2017

April 2017- looking across field Fuller School to windmill_20170414_©c ryan

April 2019

 

November 2019

NOVEMBER 2019- Fuller school demo future YMCA and _20191117_Gloucester Mass ©c ryan (2)NOVEMBER 2019- Fuller school demo future YMCA and _20191117_Gloucester Mass ©c ryan (3)

 

CVS coming across from Starbucks (and going from 177 Main Street) #GloucesterMA

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A new CVS store is going up at Gloucester Crossing across from Starbucks. People mentioned a rumor about Panera coming to one of the empty build outs.

 

The CVS store at 177 Main Street will be closing.

177 Main Street Gloucester Mass_20191117_CVS closing here

Aspen Dental #GloucesterMA open

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View back to Market Basket, April 2019. Heading into its third month, Aspen Dental, 501 Gloucester Crossing, Gloucester, Mass, openend January 31.

“we welcome all mouths”

Aspen Dental _Gloucester Crossing_Gloucester Mass_20190417_© c ryan

YMCA underway – clearing and construction staging at former Fuller School campus

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April 2019

charging up dirt_Fuller School property clearing for YMCA and housing_20190417_© catherine ryan

 

DMV RMV at Gloucester Crossing Part 2: Legislators Urge Decision on new site for Registry

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img_20170203_093649The decision on the location for a new North Shore DMV registry branch remains undecided.  There are service centers on the other peninsula, Cape Cod. Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard host full DMV service centers as do towns with smaller populations, like Greenfield and North Adams. There isn’t a uniform state model.

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http://www.massrmv.com/BranchMap.aspx

The day after the GMG post musing What about a DMV branch at Gloucester Crossing?, Paul Leighton wrote an article in yesterday’s Gloucester Daily Times “Legislators urge decision on new site for Registry” Thursday February 2, 2017 with more info.

According to the article: “Six property owners submitted bids in October. A spokesman for the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, which oversees state leasing, said those bids are still being reviewed…In addition to Speliotis, local legislators who signed the letter to the state included state Sen. Joan Lovely of Salem and state Reps. Paul Tucker of Salem, Tom Walsh of Peabody, Jerry Parisella of Beverly, Lori Ehrlich of Marblehead and Brad Hill of Ipswich, who represents Manchester.”

Leighton’s prior Gloucester Daily Times article about the DMV branch location “Registry considers Peabody, Beverly sites for new branch” was published July 21, 2016.

GMG Readers Poll- What Would You Like To See Fill The Space Vacated By Five Guys?

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If those of you who have Facebook or Twitter or Google+ could share this I’d love to see a really large number of votes to get a true picture of what most people want, Thanks. (You can share it by clicking the little icons below the post)

Holy Canoli Batman there were a lot of responses to this.  Some which I think are completely ridiculous due to the space available where Five Guys was located up at Gloucester Crossing.

Anyway here are your options, vote away!

Ace Hardware At Gloucester Crossing First Look Tour Part III

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First Look- Stephanie Smith- Ace Hardware At Gloucester Crossing Part II

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First Look- Jay Smith’s Ace Hardware At Gloucester Crossing Part I

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Here’s the first part in a three part series bringing you inside the new hardware store at Gloucester Crossing.

Five Guys Cheeseburger and Fries

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Was it a tasty burger?  Sure was.

Five Guys Cheeseburger at Gloucester Crossing $4.99, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Gloucester Crossing Market Basket

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Much like the Danvers store there were plenty of cashiers on hand and check out was a breeze.  The staff is very well trained and helpful.  My guess is that they are trained that if you make eye contact with them that they are supposed to ask if you need help finding something because every single employee I looked at asked how they could help.

As I was leaving the store with my three small bags of groceries a young man asked if he could carry my groceries to my truck.  I didn’t need the help but I imagine that women with children or elderly folks would really appreciate this service.

If you listened to the video interview the Director of Operations Manager David tells us they hired over 270 new Gloucester employees.  That’s pretty damn good.  I understand that these aren’t the highest paying jobs but when you see these teenagers dressed in ties and well groomed showing up for work it’s a whole lot better than seeing them kicking around unemployed on the street.

If a family of four spent an average of $200 per week on groceries before Market Basket came to town, that bill will be reduced by at least $50 per week.  That’s $2600 per year which goes directly back into Gloucester households.  For some folks that’s a tax bill for the year.

Gloucester Crossing Market Basket, originally uploaded by captjoe06.