Major Projects Dashboard

icon of map and pushpinWakefield is full of vibrant development, from a focus on our downtown to new opportunities for housing. Here are just a few of the Town’s current projects:

    Community Branding and Wayfinding Advisory Committee

    • Favermann Design was enlisted to create branding concepts for Wakefield's outdoor kiosk and sign installments.

    Community Garden

    • The Town of Wakefield recently received a $50,000 earmark from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to help create a community garden near Lake Quannapowitt. The garden will be managed by Wakefield’s Recreation Department.
    • Forums were held in December 2019 and February 2020 to review proposed garden locations, regulations, and the application process. The community garden concept is already blooming in many of our Wakefield Public Schools. Students at the Greenwood School, for example, learn science concepts while growing vegetables that are ultimately donated to the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry. The Galvin Middle School brings the harvest inside with tower gardens. The concept was proposed to the Town Council on February 24, 2020 and approved after a public comment period.
    • Wakefield’s Recreation Department assigned garden plots via a lottery for the 2021 season. 

    Downtown Market Assessment and Business District Analysis (2016) 

    • In 2016, FinePoint Associates conducted a market assessment and business-district composition for downtown Wakefield.

    Envision Wakefield Programs

    Grayson Lofts at Wakefield Station

    • The new development in the Harvard Mills building (Albion and Foundry Streets) will renovate the existing brick structure and add three additional stories overtop. There will be 66 studio, 57 one-bedroom, and 61 two-bedroom apartments to create 184 units in total. 

    Greater Boston & New Hampshire Solution - Woburn to Wakefield Line Project

    • A 345-kilovolt (kV) underground transmission line will connect Eversource’s Woburn Substation in Woburn and National Grid’s Wakefield Junction Substation in Wakefield.

    MBTA Pilot Program Proposal

    • UPDATE: On February 4, 2020, the MBTA informed the Town that, "Our team has thoroughly studied your proposals and we regret to inform you that, as of this time, we are unable to proceed with them...We assure you that we are looking into your other proposals in a more holistic and comprehensive manner through our various programs including Service Planning process and Bus Network Redesign. In addition, since the announcement of this pilot program the MBTA had the opportunity to place an order for 60 additional buses. We are now analyzing the most efficient way to utilize these new resources."

    Northeast Metro Tech Building Project 

    The Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School, located in Wakefield MA, is a grades 9-12 comprehensive vocational and technical high school which provides academic and vocational programs for approximately 1,250 students from twelve surrounding communities: Chelsea, Malden, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Saugus, Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester, Winthrop and Woburn. The Northeast Metro Tech project team has been working to develop options that would solve the space, capital, and maintenance issues of the more than 50-year-old building.

    200 Quannapowitt Parkway

    • This development project, at the site of the former Comverse/American Mutual building, is currently under review with the Board of Appeals.

    Tarrant Lane Apartments

    • DB5 Development Group, LLC filed an application to construct an apartment development on property previously owned a by the United States government.