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Owner Selection Information Meeting
     Anyone interested in being selected to purchase the new home on North Street must attend one of three information sessions, scheduled in September 2011. For session information, see this flyer (PDF  28k) .
For more general information, see this News Release,
or the following article in the Andover Townsman:

Affordable dream: $165,000 home on North Street
by Judy Wakefield

In a town where the average home price is about $520,000, today's low mortgage rates mean little to many potential home buyers. A house in Andover is too expensive for many. But there will be good news for someone who lives or works in town. A three-bedroom home is expected to be completed by December and will be sold for $167,500...... read the full article here.

ACT 2011 Annual Meeting
     Two tireless and enthusiastic advocates for affordable housing and community development addressed nearly 50 community leaders and volunteers at the Andover Community Trust Annual Meeting on May 25 at The Chateau in Andover.
                 Click here for more information.

 Past Events and Accomplishments

2010 ANNUAL MEETING, Wednesday May 19, 2010 -- Andover Community Trust Annual Meeting and Dinner was held at The Chateau restaurant, 131 River Rd, Andover, MA.
     
Awards Presented:
• The Fred Stott Advocate Award to Margot Bixby.
• Opening Doors to Affordable Housing in Andover Award to The Town of Andover
     
The speaker was: Lisa Alberghini, Planning Office of urban Affairs, developer of more than 2400 units of affordable housing. Topic:  What is Chapter 40B and why do we still need it?

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 1960’s. 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].