This website is intended to organize efforts to reduce the scope of development proposed for Hancock Village in Brookline, MA. Hancock Village is the largest apartment complex in Brookline. The proposed development would nearly double the number of units and parking and would be the largest in recent Brookline history.
Site Overview:
- Quick Reads are brief summary documents about Hancock Village. Video of CHR's proposed buildout.
- Proposed development outlines the development outlines proposed by the developer, Chestnut Hill Realty. Players provides a sketch of the main figures in the development process.
- Preserving Brookline summarizes efforts to restrict development at Hancock Village, including information on Neighborhood Conservation Districts in the Brookline Fall 2011 Town Warrant. Also go here for ways you can work to oppose this development.
- Background contains information on town government, zoning, and a history of Hancock Village. Community presents a tour of South Brookline.
- Impacts on Town summarizes potential impacts on town finance, public education, and the South Brookline community.
- Opinions are Op/Ed pieces about the Hancock Village development and the politics of development in Brookline.
- Events are summaries of recent meetings or events relevant to Hancock Village.
- File downloads is a resource page to download relevant files.
