MassDevelopment and Lexington-based Devens Village Green LLC have signed a land disposition agreement for up to 124 units of housing in Devens’s Grant Road neighborhood.
The Grant Road neighborhood is a roughly 35-acre portion of the 4,400-acre community. Devens Village Green has proposed a variety of unit types arranged in a walkable neighborhood style, with the first phase of the multi-phase project including about 15 units. The group plans to begin the permitting process this fall with construction starting in spring 2015.
"Devens Village Green will help meet the increasing demand for local housing given the more than 800 people who have started working in Devens in the last two years," MassDevelopment President and CEO Marty Jones said in a statement. "We look forward to seeing shovels in the ground next year and people in homes as soon as possible."
Evergreen Village Collaborative plans to build about 40 large and small single-family homes, 40 duplex and townhome units and 40 rental apartments. Twenty-seven units will be affordable to moderate-income households, defined as 80 to 100 percent of area median income.
"We are eager to get started on this exciting new community and look forward to collaborating with MassDevelopment and the Devens Enterprise Commission to complete the permitting as expeditiously as possible," Dan Gainsboro, co-developer at Devens Village Green, said in a statement. "The master plan and architecture of this community will encourage social connection and foster a sense of place and neighborhood."



