COMMON GROUND

DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Residences at Stony Brook, Westford, MA

The mission of Common Ground Development Corporation is to create and preserve affordable housing units.  CGDC has been created as a non-profit subsidiary of Community Teamwork, Inc. (CTI) to address the crisis in affordable housing by producing more housing for first-time home-buyers and preserving existing apartments at affordable rent levels.

WHO
Board of Directors
Staff
CTI

WHAT
Build Affordable Housing
Preserve Affordable Housing

WHEN
History of CGDC

WHERE
Map of Cities & Towns

HOW
Working with City and Town Governments

Finding resources and arranging financing

Assembling the Team

Managing the project

Property management

Working with Partners 

CONTACT US

LINKS 

PROJECTS

Creating Affordable Units

Stony Brook, Westford, MA

Duplex Construction, Lowell, MA

Acton Town School

Stony Brook II, Westford

 

 

Preserving Affordable Units

767 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA

205 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA

360 Pawtucket Street, Lowell, MA

Broadway Street, Lowell, MA

ARTICLES

Housing advocate insists Wellspring unfairly blamed
By Kathy McCabe Globe Staff / January 25, 2009

Chelmsford wins $9M in affordable housing
By Rita Savard, rsavard@lowellsun.com
August 16, 2008

City Council is taking steps to combat foreclosure crisis in Lowell
By Rita Savard, rsavard@lowellsun.com
July 9, 2008

CBA rehabs St. Joseph's School as housing
By Jack Minch, jminch@lowellsun.com
June 14, 2008

Princeton Properties closes on Grandview
By Michael Lafleur, mlafleur@lowellsun.com
June 8, 2008

The university effect
UMass Lowell could help revitalize city housing

By Robert Moreau and Robert Forrant
May 18, 2008

Developer changes plan for 40B proposal in Tewksbury
By Rick Heller, Sun Correspondent
April 25, 2008

Developers Scrambling For Cash
By Aglaia Pikounis, Reporter, Banker & Tradesman / April 14, 2008

Affordable-housing decisions favor developers
SJC weighs in on 10% requirement
By Eric Moskowitz Globe Staff / April 12, 2008
In Groton, SJC rules against developer. Town need not grant easement.
By Matt Gunderson Globe Correspondent / April 20, 2008

Nonprofit builders can tap new fund
Goal is to help soften effect of foreclosures on neighborhoods By Binyamin Appelbaum
Globe Staff / April 10, 2008

Rates on 30-year mortgages drop
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer
March 27, 2008

February housing numbers are especially grim
By Dan O'Brien, The Lowell Sun
dobrien@lowellsun.com
March 26, 2008

The next chapter of Chapter 40B
By Paul D. Wilson
The Boston Globe
February 15, 2008

Droop in home sales infects even the subsidized market
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Globe Staff
January 28, 2008  

State to cap profits on affordable housing law
Developers may have to post bonds
By Christine McConville, Globe Staff
June 15, 2007