New Homes to Rise on Razed Nursing Home Site
For sale signs are going up following the demolition of a former nursing home just a few paces from Boston Post Road. The newly razed 2.96-acre parcel will now find new life as a three-lot subdivision.
Developer Mady Devel III LLC purchased the property at 9 Neck Road in September for $1.15 million after gaining site plan approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission in the spring. According to the plan approved in March 2023, the 2.96-acre lot will be divided into three separate housing lots, each approximately 40,000 square feet. Those lots will now go up for sale.
According to Kacy Caviston of Westbuilt Modular, LLC, one of the builders associated with the project, the lots range in price from $774,000 to $795,000, but the final selling price is expected to be in the $2 million range, including the cost of land. While the parcels are not waterfront, Caviston said each property is less than a half-mile from the shore and has deeded beach rights. The address for Watrous Nursing Home was 9 Neck Road, but the new construction will face Shorelands Drive, which dead ends at a small beach.
All three lots are available for purchase, and potential buyers can choose modular homes built by Wesbuilt Modular, LLC, or any other builder, according to Caviston. Any lot that fails to sell will be developed by Mady Devel III LLC, and Wesbuilt Modular will build the structures.
The modular design of the proposed homes has several adaptations that make the project particularly intriguing for his partners, according to Caviston.
“The main advantage is that the process is a lot quicker,” said Caviston. “While you are doing site work and getting everything ready, in this case, in the middle of winter, we can build the house in a nice environmentally controlled space. It all gets done and inspected and, in general, is just a better built home,” said Caviston. “We’ve just placed the order for the first home.”
Caviston estimated that the first modular home would begin construction at the end of March or early April. The homes, including the one underway now, will have an approximately 3,400-square-foot base including four bedrooms, with the potential for more in an attic space, and three and a half bathrooms, according to Caviston.
“We think most of the homes will be in that same basic square foot range, but again, that will be dictated by what we see and what happens. Potential buyers have some leeway, and we can build to suit if somebody wanted something larger. We aren’t locked into a specific square footage at this point, but if we build the homes, they would probably be in that same range,” Caviston said.
Watrous Nursing Home closed in June of 2021 when it voluntarily ceased operations.