Marina, city in rent dispute
One evening in late April, Andy McKinley came to the City Council with a request. He asked them to hold off on plans to raise the rent for Grand Marina, where he is general manager, by nearly 400 percent.
McKinley’s appearance before the council marked one of the most recent turns in a year-long dispute between [...]
Island High fever
As promised, more than two dozen neighbors of the old Island High site confronted the Planning Board on Monday night over Warmington Homes’ proposal to put a 36-unit, low-income apartment complex there. They say 36 units is too much for the less-than-an-acre site, that its impacts to parking and nearby Edison School would be too [...]
Planning fireworks
Last month, we told you that Warmington Homes asked the Planning Board if it would consider allowing the developer to pull some of the “affordable” homes it is required to build into its Grand Marina housing project in exchange for a low-income development on the old Island High site. Well, Warmington’s architect met with neighbors [...]
