Sharon Commons Housing Impacts Await Selectmen
Town engineer and others scheduled to meet with the board Tuesday night.
The potential impacts of the planned Residences of Sharon Commons may become clearer this week.
Town Engineer Peter O'Cain is among those scheduled to discuss this topic with the board of selectmen at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Sharon Town Offices.
Sharon Commons is eyed for land off Interstate 95 near Shaw's Plaza. The project involves about 450,000 square feet of retail, service and restaurant space, according to www.sharoncommons.com.
The zoning board of appeals' public hearing on requests related to Sharon Commons continues at 7:30 p.m. May 18, also at the town offices.
Last month, the ZBA learned that Target plans to open its Sharon Commons department store during the summer of 2012. A BJ's Wholesale Club would open that fall.
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Al Mollitor
9:06 am on Saturday, May 14, 2011
I just went to the Sharon Commons website mentioned above. Their latest update under "News" is from October 2007. This doesn't leave the impression that even the developers have much hope of this project ever happening. Sharon should start thinking about a more realistic future for this land so we can be prepared as the owners start groping around for new ways to salvage some of their investment.
Todd Arnold
10:05 am on Saturday, May 14, 2011
Odds are it will be a lot of housing if the Retail component fails. It is a shame because the overall Concept is good and well have a bit of business on the outskirts of town translating into tax revenue for the town. What I don't like to see is the lack of access from 95! It's going to be a major infrastructure nightmare if the only access to the retail operation is off of South Main street and possible off of South Walpole Street.....You think Traffic lights are going to be the solve all problem to that up on South main..lol? I can see traffic totally slowing done to a literal standstill on South Main Street with congestion back to Wolomolopoag. What will it be like up off of South Walpole Street...? Hope they work on access points and hopefully beat it into the State that access from 95 would alleviate a lot of potential hassles!!
Kurt Buermann
10:31 am on Saturday, May 14, 2011
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I don't know how many times homeowners will fall for the mythic bait that commercial development will lower their property taxes. It is like Charlie Brown and Lucy holding the football. Just as he kicks she pulls it away and Charlie crashes on his caboose. He never learns and apparently neither do homeowners whose taxes , unbudged by new businesses, now have to endure spoiled views, congestion, more crime and and overall lowered quality of life. The caboose crash comes when they find their property values go down .
Don't take it just from me:
http://savepinetop-lakeside.com/myths-growth.html
http://www.jessicaswell.com/mt/archives/2010/03/the-development-myth-of-h.php
Gwen
9:53 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Thank you Kurt, both good links and informative. I am afraid we are whistling in the wind though, with the people we now have at the top in this town. As Coleen Tuck pointed out at Town Meeting, to lower a seating requirement to just 18 seats, rather than the 50 we had in place for serving alcohol. One must remember, at one time the seating had to be 100 seats, we have certainly lowered the standards for our Town. This is just inviting a bar type establishment, I miss the town I moved into over 40 years ago. It has not gotten better, because of the changes they have proposed and rammed through with promises of lower taxes.
Kurt Buermann
9:25 am on Saturday, May 19, 2012
Gwen--
If someone had the time & inclination to undertake a review of past development & projects in Sharon I wonder what it would reveal as far as actual property tax reduction.