Cambridge courthouse judged fit for redo
Neighbors weigh further action vs. $300M project
Credit: Courtesy
CURB APPEAL: The former Middlesex County Courthouse, in a rendering showing proposed renovations, kept its legal, nonconforming status despite losing government immunity after being sold by the state, the Appeals Court has ruled. Photo courtesy of Leggat McCall
Credit: Courtesy
CURB APPEAL: The former Middlesex County Courthouse, as it now looks, kept its legal, nonconforming status despite losing government immunity after being sold by the state, the Appeals Court has ruled. Courtesy of Leggatt McCall Properties
A Massachusetts Appeals Court ruling yesterday paved the way for the $300 million redevelopment of the former Middlesex County courthouse in East Cambridge.
The Appeals Court upheld a 2015 Land Court decision that determined the former Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse, when transferred from state ownership to private ownership under Boston developer Leggat McCall Properties, would still be considered a legal, preexisting nonconforming structure despite losing its government immunity from zoning rules.
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