SHREWSBURY: DAYCARE CENTER APPROVED

Mar 21, 2017

Lightbridge Academy plans to build a facility at Shrewsbury Avenue and Harvard Way. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A rapid makeover of Shrewsbury’s northwestern corner continues with the approval last week of a large new daycare facility.

The borough planning board OK’d a plan by Lightbridge Academy, a franchisor of educational centers for children from infancy to kindergarten, to build a two-story, 11,600-square-foot facility with outdoor play areas on Shrewsbury Avenue.

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March 21, 2017 - 12:44 pm |

SHREWSBURY: BIG PROJECTS IN THE WORKS

Jan 10, 2017

The former Catelli Brothers slaughterhouse on Broad Street is to be demolished to make way for 81 senior-living units under a plan approved last month. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Some big developments are on drawing boards in Shrewsbury:

• A former abattoir is to be razed to make way for senior housing

• Three office buildings would be demolished and replaced by new supermarket

• And hearings continue over a proposal for a gas station and convenience store.

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January 10, 2017 - 11:00 am |

SHREWSBURY: CORNER GETTING A MAKEOVER

Aug 19, 2016

Chelsea Living, a senior citizens’s assisted-living facility, has been approved to replace the vacant former Shrewsbury Manor nursing home at Shrewsbury Avenue and Patterson Avenue, below. (Rendering by Meyer Design; photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

A dowdy stretch of Shrewsbury roadway is in the midst of a makeover.

An old bunker-like warehouse building is gone from the northeast corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Patterson Avenue, replaced by two new retail businesses. And at the the southeast corner, the overgrown former site of a nursing home is about to get a new assisted-living residence for seniors.

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August 19, 2016 - 8:09 am |

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SHREWSBURY: DAYCARE CENTER APPROVED

SHREWSBURY: BIG PROJECTS IN THE WORKS

SHREWSBURY: CORNER GETTING A MAKEOVER