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'Reading Woods' Condo Development Begins to Take Shape

The condo development will be located at the former Addison Wesley site in Reading.

From Route 128, if you look toward the former Addison Wesley site, just west of Main Street in Reading, you can see construction equipment, piles of dirt and a building under construction. To the east, you can catch a glimpse of a completed building, and another one under next to it still in the works.

Pulte Homes is building condominiums, in phases, on the 25-acre site.  

The larger building – four stories when it’s done – will contain 50 one and two-bedroom condo units, all garden-style -- that is, on one level. They will be done in four to five months, in August to September, according to Sales Consultant for Pulte Homes Mary Burbank.

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The other two buildings are townhouse-style-condos, three levels, with three bedrooms. Each building contains four units.

Ultimately, Pulte could build 424 condos on the property, named Reading Woods: three more buildings of 50 garden-style units each near the first one; two more buildings of townhouse units adjacent to the existing two; and five other buildings, in two clusters, with a total of 208 units specifically for residents age 55 and older.  

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The market-rate price for a one-bedroom unit in the first building of garden-style condos ranges, Burbank said, from about $238,000 to $255,000; a two-bedroom, from about $335,000 to $390,000.

The price of the townhouse-style units ranges, Burbank said, from the mid-to high $400,000s.

The townhouse condos include two car garages. The other units have 1.6 outside parking spaces per unit.

Deeded underground parking is available for a one-time fee of between $9,000 and $12,000 for one space; $15,000 for two spaces.

Forty of the garden-style condos -- out of 200 when all four buildings are built – will be affordable, according to Burbank.

A lottery for the affordable units will be held in June, she said.

Pulte has sold 23 units, 22 garden style and one townhouse, according to Burbank. Buyers are from Reading, she said, and surrounding communities, including Stoneham, Wakekfield, Melrose, Medford, Andover and North Andover.

Reading has no new housing of this type, Burbank commented. She pointed to the space in the condos – “right-sized,” not downsized, she said, and details such as the nine-foot ceilings and thick molding in the townhouses.

Mary Burbank, (508)-641-7014; Sarah Eldred, affordable home program consultant for Pulte Homes, (508)-614-8541.

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