Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Direction for Issuance of Request for Proposals for Town Property Containing “South Franklin Congregational Meeting House”

September 23, 2022

To: Town Council

From: Jamie Hellen, Town Administrator
Alecia Alleyne, Assistant to the Town Administrator

Re: Resolution 22-61: Direction for Issuance of Request for Proposals for Town Property Containing “South Franklin Congregational Meeting House” Located at 762 Washington Street
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The action before the Council is to allow the Town Administration to release a Request for Proposals on the South Franklin Meeting House, which will include a provision for both a permanent affordable housing restriction and a historic preservation restriction.

At the July 20th Town Council meeting there was a discussion regarding the disposition of the Town-owned land that contains the South Franklin Meeting House, and Council decided to accept the recommendation from the EDC to move forward with affordable housing.

As a reminder, an Expression of Interest went out for a two month period in the Spring to see if there were any interested parties willing to take on this preservation project. The Town received two formal, non-binding written proposals. At the May EDC meeting, the committee weighed both proposals, in addition to other qualitative information from the two open houses, and had a detailed discussion. They voted 3-1 (Yes: Hamblen, Jones and Frongillo; No: Sheridan) to recommend to the full Town Council to instruct the staff to put an RFP out for parties to bid on affordable housing projects only.

The Expressions of Interest we received are attached, as is the Solicitation Document that was posted on the Town website.

Please see below for links to related materials:
● Old South Church document website   https://www.franklinma.gov/administrator/pages/special-projects

Please let us know if you have any questions.


Note: This is one of the key items on the Town Council agenda for Sep 28, 2022   https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/agendas/september_28_town_council_mtg_agenda.pdf

South Meeting House
Old South Meeting House, Washington St

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