On the table was a request from New England Family Housing for permission to put a condo and apartment project on 40 acres of industrially zoned land between the interstate and the Merrimack River in Penacook. In the end, the Concord Zoning Board split 3-2 to reject the request. It means dwindling paths forward for a plan that was once the largest proposed housing development in the city. The project, called Monitor Way because much of it would be built on land alongside the Concord Monitor building on Sewalls Falls Road, seeks to build 151 workforce housing units, 327 market-rate apartments within a mixed-use retail center, 223 standalone market-rate apartments, 71 townhouses for sale and 172 condominiums for sale and rent. It would also feature over 100,000 square feet of commercial retail space and another 100,000 square feet of self-storage space.

A proposal to build nearly 200 housing units along the Merrimack River near the Wheelabrator power plant in Penacook is not in the “public interest” for multiple reasons, according to Concord’s city planner. The project, called Monitor Way because much of it would be built on land alongside the Concord Monitor building on Sewalls Falls Road, seeks to build 151 workforce housing units, 327 market-rate apartments within a mixed-use retail center, 223 standalone market-rate apartments, 71 townhouses for sale and 172 condominiums for sale and rent. It would also feature over 100,000 square feet of commercial retail space and another 100,000 square feet of self-storage space.

Solutions for the housing crisis won’t come without a foundation of communication and community buy-in, panelists at the New Hampshire Housing 2024 Homeownership Conference agreed Tuesday.

Plans to build nearly 1,000 housing units in Concord hinge on funding for a new 1.5-mile road that could cost up to $16 million to build, a developer said.

Depending on who you talk to, assessments of the current housing landscape in NH range from “insufficient” to downright bleak. There simply aren’t enough units of housing currently on the market to meet the state’s needs.

New Hampshire towns and rural communities have a unique challenge in solving the housing crisis. This program seeks to better understand the process, and the associated risks, challenges, and opportunities, to creating more housing in the Granite State.

The Monitor Way development team presented updated plans for its proposed 135-acre, mixed-use development near the Concord Monitor building, featuring a total 944 housing units, to the public. Monitor Way presented its proposal to the Concord Planning Board on October 18, 2023 for a conceptual design review.

The starting gun has fired for two very large mixed-use projects in Concord following initial hearings before the Planning Board this week, but the biggest presence in the room wasn't really the projects themselves it was the state's housing crisis.

A proposed development at Sewall's Falls in north Concord has grown to 944 apartments, condominiums and townhouses, an increase of almost 50% since it was informally presented last summer. The project, called Monitor Way because much of it would be built on land alongside the Concord Monitor building on Sewalls Falls Road, seeks to build 151 workforce housing units, 327 market-rate apartments within a mixed-use retail center, 223 standalone market-rate apartments, 71 townhouses for sale and 172 condominiums for sale and rent. It would also feature over 100,000 square feet of commercial retail space and another 100,000 square feet of self-storage space.

A developer looking to construct hundreds of new housing units near the former Concord Monitor site presents updated plans to the planning board Wednesday, including nearly 300 more housing units than first proposed around 14 months ago.