Concord Planning Board Eyes 192 New Apartments On Langdon Avenue

CONCORD, NH — The city’s planning board will eye a site plan review proposed by two developers to construct 192-units of multi-family housing as well as mixed-use commercial buildings off South Main Street on Wednesday, with a public hearing slated for July.

P&M Realty of Concord LLC, a Hollis developer, as well as Dakota Partners of Waltham, Massachusetts, are proposing two 12-unit, two 36-unit, and two 48-unit apartment buildings as well as two commercial mixed-use buildings on Langdon Avenue on a 34-plus-acre parcel that once served as a railroad hub for the city.

The project, known as Rail Yard at Langdon Avenue, will be constructed in four phases. The target demographic will be workforce housing, according to the company. No ballpark pricing information for the units was available with documents submitted to the city.

The project will also include Americans with Disabilities Act-designated units, nearly 1,200 parking spaces, a 2,500 square foot clubhouse, and pedestrian walkways, and will be an expansion of the first building on the complex, NH Climbing & Fitness.

The companies are also proposing subdividing the parcel and project into five condominium land units, which will be separate limited liability corporations.

During the past decade that P&M Realty has owned the parcel, a number of historic buildings have been cleared, unable to be saved due to many decades of neglect and decay and, in recent years, homeless camps and outdoor fires. Dakota Partners, according to its website, has been in business since 2006, using low-income housing tax credits, historic tax credits, and other programs to design and construct buildings. The company has constructed four other projects in New Hampshire — 76 mixed-income apartments spread across 13 buildings in Goffstown known as Woodland Village; 50 loft apartments in an 1870s mill in Milford; 41 apartments at Kensington Woods in Bedford; and a 47-unit affordable housing complex in Hudson.

About three decades ago, a shopping center was proposed for the site but killed by the city and neighbors concerned about traffic and a massive project that would be primarily built for Bow and other residents to the south of the city.

On Friday, construction workers could be seen working the site including preparing the remaining train car repair building for demolition.

The planning board meets at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Concord City Council Chambers at 37 Green St. A public hearing on the project is scheduled for July 21.

Also on Wednesday, the planning board will eye an update from Brixmor Capital on its site plan review for a new restaurant, retail, and drive-thru coffee shop on the western side of 80 Storrs St. The project includes a new 110 Grill Restaurant and a Starbucks.

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