Politics & Government

Report: Court Rules Against Doctors' Langwood Commons Lawsuit

The board of a medical condo building at the former hospital site could be liable for $5.2 million in damages, the Boston Globe reported.

A group of doctors who sued the developers of Langwood Commons, the residential and office development planned for the Boston Regional Medical Center site in the Middlesex Fells, may have cost the developer $5.2 million according to a judge's ruling, the Boston Globe reported.

In 2008, the New England Memorial Hospital Condominium Association, which is the board of a medical condo building at the former hospital site, filed an appeal in Middlesex Superior Court regarding the Stoneham Zoning Board of Appeals approving changes to the traffic plans for the development, but not requiring a public hearing on those proposed changes.

According to the Globe, Judge H.J. Smith Jr. ruled that the condo association didn't have the authority to appeal those changes, and that the appeal may have cost property owner Fellsway Development LLC $5.2 million in damages, caused by a lengthy delay of construction, court records show.

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A hearing to determine the precise amount of damages is scheduled for July 14 in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn.

The battle over the fate of Langwood Commons has stretched over for almost a decade. Still ahead is a case brought by the Friends of the Middlesex Fells and  Medford City Hall against the project, which after being dismissed in Superior Court last year is now being . Melrose City Hall originally planned to be part of that lawsuit before reaching an agreement with Stoneham Town Hall.

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