Two of Boston's leading suburban developers are partnering up to build a transit oriented development project in suburban Westwood.
"Two familiar names in Massachusetts commercial real estate are joining up to replace a worn-out industrial park with a $1.5 billion city in the suburbs, where people would live, eat, shop, work, work out, and hang out, right at one of region's busiest transportation hubs.
Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of New England Inc. and New England Development of Newton are busy drawing up plans for Westwood Station, a 4.5-million-square-foot development that would transform 130 underused acres into homes for 1,000 families, and offices or shopping destinations for thousands more.
Thirty or more new buildings would occupy a wide strip along almost a mile of University Avenue next to busy Route 128 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Route 128 Station, which feeds passengers to both commuter and Amtrak trains."
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