50 Prescott Street at Gateway Park | Worcester, MA
Award-Winning Mixed-Use Urban Reclamation Laboratory/office Completed 2012 100,000 square feet $30 million THE CHALLENGE This development project was part of a planned technology park. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) wanted to support its programs with a building that would attract companies in the biotech and life sciences industries. The unusual challenge, then, was to build state-of-the-art laboratory […]
Berkshiretown Apartments | Pittsfield, MA
This complex includes 184 units of subsidized elderly preference housing and handicapped-accessible units in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Buildings include common areas for planned social activities and health clinics, as well as 24-hour emergency services.
Bosch Building Remediation and Demolition | Springfield, MA
O’Connell Development Group purchased the Bosch site in 2005 for redevelopment. The site was an abandoned early 1900s manufacturing complex that was partially consumed by fire in late 2004. The project consisted of above-grade remediation of an 8.4 acre lot, 400,000 square feet of building demolition, and redevelopment of the site. Key remediation activities included […]
Crossroads Business Park | Holyoke, MA
A Business Park With Built-In Quality Control Light industrial and commercial office space Completed 2003 114 acres THE CHALLENGE This site at the juncture of a major interstate (the Massachusetts Turnpike) was a prime location for an industrial park. The goal was to capitalize on that by creating the area’s finest business park for light […]
Educare | Springfield, MA
THE CHALLENGE When the Educare Learning Network expressed interest in partnering with The Davis Foundation for a new high quality early education school in Springfield, O’Connell Development Group (“ODG”) was engaged by the sponsors to provide them with a multidisciplinary approach to develop this school, which included assistance in obtaining national, regional and local funding […]
Elmwood Towers | Holyoke, MA
This complex includes 152 units of subsidized elderly preference housing and handicapped-accessible units in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Building included common areas for planned social activities and health clinics, as well as 24-hour emergency services.
Former Atlas Copco Property | Holyoke, MA
O’Connell Development Group acquired this former manufacturing facility several years ago with the intention of redeveloping it as a retail center. In spring 2011, the Holyoke City Council unanimously approved a zone change that will allow retail uses on the parcel. The project is currently in the permitting stage. Permits have been acquired from the […]
Former Westinghouse Property | Springfield, MA
Stepping Up To Environmental Remediation Redevelopment Completed 2012 40 acres Resold for $16 million THE CHALLENGE O’Connell Development Group acquired this vacant, contaminated former manufacturing facility in 2010. Its million square feet of buildings, filled with asbestos and other hazardous materials, needed to be remediated and demolished before any form of reuse would be possible. THE […]
Glenmeadow Retirement Community | Longmeadow, MA
A Continuing Care Retirement Community Residential Completed 1997 THE CHALLENGE The challenge was to create a continuing care retirement community that met the needs of an aging population. The aging-in-place concept, from independence to assisted living to nursing care on one campus, was a new one. THE ODG APPROACH We first defined levels of care […]
H.B. Smith Project | Westfield, MA
This property was home to a large, obsolete manufacturing facility that had been an integral part of the city’s business district for 150 years. Numerous downtown businesses had grown up around it. The company was still in business and city leaders valued both the jobs and tax revenue it provided. O’Connell Development Group worked with […]
