Creating
permanently affordable single family homes
in Andover, Massachusetts
Based on a strong belief that economic
diversity is an important contributor to
vital and livable communities, Andover
Community Trust advocates for and
develops permanently affordable
homes in Andover, Massachusetts.
Support ACT and get a house! For a $25 membership ACT will (on request and by pick up only) provide an unassembled birdhouse. The decorated birdhouses, below, illustrate how a birdhouse might look when complete. The artist, Anne Thiam, will donate a limited number of decorated birdhouses, which will be available for a contributing membership of $100 or more. All donations will support the development of permanently affordable homes in Andover.
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ANNUAL MEETING, Wednesday June 17, 2009 -- Andover Community Trust Annual Meeting and Dinner was held at the Andover Inn. David Abromowitz, attorney with Goulston and Storrs, will be our guest speaker. More about Atty Abromowitz here.
We will also give our First Annual Fred Stott Advocate Awards at this event.
AWARD WINNING - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at the Memorial Hall Library, the Andover Preservation Commission, Andover Historical Society and Ballardvale Historic District Commission presented Andover Community Trust with an Historic Preservation award for “contextual design and construction in an established neighborhood”for its fourth and most recent permanently affordable home at 94 Cheever Circle. Congratulations to John Pearson of Margulies Perruzzi Architects and president of Andover Community Trust, who designed the home, and to Kevin Smith of Smith Construction who built it.
Andover Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage presents Andover Community Trust with a donation from their Coldwell Banker Care program (pictured below).
Left to right: Cathy McCarthy, manager and Joan Johnson realtor at Coldwell Banker; Don Schroeder, treasurer of Andover Community Trust along with Steven Ives, President and CEO of Merimack Valley YMCA (also receiving donation) and Barbara Grasso, Andover Coldwell Banker Cares Representative and realtor.
Andover Community Trust completed it's fourth permanently affordable home on Cheever Circle in August 2008. Andover Community Trust had signed.... [read more
-- click here].
The land for the Heather Dr. home was donated by Dikris Kazanjian,
a Raytheon employee who purchased the land when Raytheon moved
to Andover in the 1960s. He never moved from Waltham and
offered to donate the lot to AVIS (Andover Village Improvement
Society) .... [read more
-- click here].
The home on River Rd. was donated to Andover
Community Trust by Steve Stapinski and King Weinstein, developers of Casco
Crossing. As a condition of the approval of Casco Crossing, a 90 unit
rental housing development, the Andover Zoning Board of Appeals..... [read
more -- click here].