Chelsea Is Now a Landlord: 55 Heard Street’s Six Apartments, 300 Applicants and a $2,500 Rent
The council set aside $2 million to buy and improve the building, which the Law Department now runs. The city promised rents…
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Chelsea’s Charter Committee Backs Five-Year Terms for the City Manager and a Seven-Vote Rule to Fire One
Minutes posted September 29 show the city manager sections passed 9-0 on September 22. Rules on removing board members who skip meetings…
Continue readingWhere Chelsea’s $26,546.88 in Old Bills Came From, and the Economic Development Chief Two Committees Backed
Lead pipe invoices whose MWRA reimbursement window has closed, unemployment costs, a copier lease and a $50 ad. Plus rideshare money for…
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Chelsea Is Courting Developers: A Site Tour October 1, and Meetings on Dropping Parking Minimums
The City asks residents about ending parking minimums while showing builders the sites. Both are part of a year-long push to get…
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Chelsea Will Replace Your Lead Water Pipe for Free. Here Is How to Check Yours
Look up your address, book a two-minute check, and the City replaces a lead line in four to eight hours at no…
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Sixteen Funding Sources, Thirteen Months of Permitting and $43 Million: What It Takes to Build 62 Affordable Apartments in Chelsea
The project was permitted in 2022 and did not break ground until 2025. The gap was spent lining up money. A developer…
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Chelsea’s Master Plan Sorts the City Into Three Kinds of Place. Find the One You Live In
West Chelsea, Creekside, Forbes and the lower Broadway waterfront are marked for transformation. The Broadway corridor is marked for building on what…
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A Two-Family on a 6,126-Square-Foot Lot, and an Argument About Where the Front Steps End
Frontage 15 feet short, the lot 1,374 square feet short, and parking two feet from the line. How a house actually gets…
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‘Chelsea Is a City in Decline’ Was the Last Master Plan’s First Line. One Resident Spoke at the Hearing for the New One
Fifty years since the last one, about 200 pages, 40 zoning actions a board member says cannot all be done at once,…
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Chelsea’s Master Plan Had Its Only Public Hearing Tuesday. The Planning Board Votes October 27
Two years of work, six goals, and a strategy list that reads like a forecast of every argument the council had this…
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