City Offers Incremental Incentive to Munroe Street Developer PAPER
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018 STEVE KRAUSE AT LARGE City offers incremental incentive People, to Munroe Street developer please By Gayla Cawley would save more than $2.5 million in prop- Procopio Enterprises Inc., a family-owned ITEM STAFF erty taxes. construction company in Saugus, has agreed Over that same time period, the project is to purchase the former parking lot on Mun- LYNN — In front of a roomful of protesters expected to produce $5 million in new tax roe Street that has been used as a communi- stay in on Tuesday night, the City Council approved revenue. City of cials said the property cur- ty garden for more than a decade. a $2.5 million tax break over a seven-year rently brings in $3,000 in annual taxes. The $80-90 million project will feature 261 period for a development team that plans to Under the tax incentive plan negotiated market-rate residential units with 20,000 your lane transform the downtown site of a communi- with the developers by Mayor Thomas M. square feet of commercial space on the ty garden on Munroe Street into a 10-story McGee, the commercial portion of the proj- ground oor, according to James Cowdell, The relationship between mixed-use building with market-rate hous- ect would be taxed fully from the beginning, executive director of Economic Development the bicycle and the automo- ing and commercial space. while the residential portion would be taxed & Industrial Corporation of Lynn (EDIC/ bile is somewhat similar to By a 7-4 vote, the City Council approved starting at a rate of 15 percent of assessed Lynn). the one between Popeye and a Tax Increment Exemption Agreement value in scal year 2020 and increasing “Tonight was a historic vote for the city of Bluto. under the Housing Development Incentive yearly until it reaches 100 percent in FY27. Lynn,” Cowdell said. “This is a $80-90 million Cars are bigger than bikes. Program (HDIP), from 2020 to 2027, where The projected annual tax revenue starting in They go faster. They have Procopio Enterprises Inc., the developers, FY27 is $1.35 million. DEVELOPER, A7 more power. They can hurt you more if you get in their way. Therefore, the auto- mobile, by its brute power alone, is higher up on the Fire food chain. The only difference, one supposes, is that the bicycle — or its rider — can’t open tears a can of spinach just when things appear to be at their most critical and kick the through car to the curb. It’s funny how opinions get formed. Bicycles have been around, Saugus in one form or another, since the early 1800s. The automobile wasn’t mass-pro- home duced until almost a century later — even though, when you think about it, cars are By Bridget Turcotte simply motorized horses and ITEM STAFF buggies, which have been SAUGUS — A three-alarm around much longer. blaze tore through a home Still, bicycles aren’t exactly on Juniper Drive Tuesday, new. We’ve had two centu- sending one re ghter to the ries to get used to them, and accept them as viable meth- hospital. ods of transportation. Saugus Fire Chief Michael So how come we can’t? Newbury said he was the Read any comments sec- rst on scene along with two tion after an unfortunate police of cers around noon. cyclist runs afoul of a DPW The single-family home was truck and ends up in the unoccupied when he arrived. morgue. It doesn’t take long “When I got up there it for someone to go on a rant went to a second and then a about inconsiderate bicy- third alarm,” said Newbury. clists and their rights to any “When we initially went in part of the road. There still we did an interior attack. seems to be a serious con- PAPER OR PLASTIC? The roof became unstable ict, all of it stemming from and began to collapse, so I the belief that drivers have pulled everyone out.” all the rights, and everyone Marblehead painter uses both in her art Fire ghters from Saugus, else — and every mode of Malden, Lynn, Revere, Mel- transportation — has to By Bella diGrazia already painted over it you can use it Elaine Daly is rose, Wake eld and the Mas- take a (pardon the expres- ITEM STAFF for something else.” a Marblehead sachusetts Port Authority sion) back seat. Nella Lush is the head of the exper- artist who re- then attacked the re from MARBLEHEAD — Plastic bags may Well, who came up with imental group in Rockport that Daly purposes plastic the outside using ladder be bad for the environment, but a long- that caste system? Who took part in. It was there she learned bags into her trucks. time local artist has found a better use decided that the car has top that every piece of art has to be made One Saugus re ghter was for the material. paintings. priority and everything else from some kind of internal feeling, taken to an area hospital for has to fall in line? Elaine Daly’s artistic skills began and that she should never be afraid to ITEM PHOTO | heat exhaustion. Don’t misunderstand. If when she was 4 years old, but her re- think outside of the box. SPENSER HASAK The re appears to have I’m going from Lynn to Port- sourceful habits only started a year started in the rear of the land, Maine, I’m not going to and a half ago. A Marblehead resident “Nella has a real love for applying paint on a canvas and will try anything home, but the cause remains ride my bike — unless the for 58 years, she is inspired by ordi- under investigation by the objective is to raise money nary things on a daily basis and her and everything,” said Daly. “When she gives a demonstration, she really wants State Fire Marshal, said for a cause or something like outside-of-the-box thinking came to Newbury. that. fruition when she participated in an you to come right from your inside and not have anything in mind and just see The 81 Juniper Drive home But if I’m stuck in a city experimental group through the Rock- was built in 1997 and is val- like Boston, with its paucity port Art Association. what happens on the canvas.” Daly didn’t always live in Marble- ued at about $627,000, ac- of parking spaces, and its “I always get the newspaper, so one cording to Patriot Properties. head. She moved there from Methuen ruinous traf c, I might be day I’m sitting there and I’m looking at Newbury called it a total tempted to buy a good bike almost six decades ago, shortly after the pink plastic bag the paper comes in loss. and ride it around rather and I start thinking, I’d like to put that meeting Harry, her husband. Her big- than waste all my time look- on something and see what happens,” gest artistic in uence as a child was Bridget Turcotte can be ing for a space and sitting said Daly. “I think the most interesting PAINTER, A7 reached at bturcotte@item- still behind a steering wheel part is when you take it off and you’ve live.com. Follow her on Twit- at rush hour. ter @BridgetTurcotte. All of this comes as a prelude to the complaining people have been doing INSIDE about those green bike-share cycles being strewn around Lynn Sports Food 16-year-old pleads not guilty Good pitching, hitting lifts Try some of Rosalie’s pasta with KRAUSE, A7 to rst-degree murder. A6 Lynn eld over Salem. B1 sausage and Swiss chard. B8 Swampscott explores growing old gracefully By Gayla Cawley ing population,” said Robert Powell, a mem- communication and information, and com- ITEM STAFF ber of the town’s Council on Aging. munity and health services, Powell said. Funding for the study was approved at Once of cials get a sense of what the com- SWAMPSCOTT — Town of cials are in- Town Meeting in May. munity thinks through the survey, Powell vesting in a $30,000 age-friendly communi- Powell said lots of stage work needs to said more quantitative and qualitative re- ty assessment to identify strategies to better serve its aging population. be done before the study is developed. The search will be done. The town will solicit Swampscott is expected to see continued town needs to do a survey of the communi- a vendor to help them develop the study, growth in its older population. By 2030, ty that addresses the eight domains estab- which will be modeled after Salem’s recent lished by the World Health Organization’s age-friendly community assessment. the 60 and older population is projected to ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK comprise more than one-third of the town’s Age-Friendly Framework. Powell said seniors want activities and population, up from 25 percent in 2010, ac- Those domains, which will ultimately be a place they can go to socialize. One of the A Juniper Drive home cording to U.S. Census Data and projections studied in terms of how to better address the goals of the study process is that it will iden- in Saugus was called a generated by the Metropolitan Area Plan- town’s senior population are: outdoor space tify ways to make the Swampscott Senior total loss on Tuesday ning Council. and buildings, transportation, housing, so- Center more attractive and viable. following a three-alarm “It’s an urgent problem we have to address cial participation, respect and social inclu- blaze that sent one re- and we’re not ready to accommodate an ag- sion, civic participation and employment, SWAMPSCOTT, A7 ghter to the hospital.