A certificate of appropriateness for the project was denied in August 2020 by the Old Kings Highway Regional Historic District Committee. The sale comes almost a year after the property’s former owner, 530 Tremont Realty Trust, withdrew its application before the zoning board of appeals to build a 39,000-square-foot F.W. We’re planning modestly priced but market rate apartments.” “We’re not planning a 40B,” he said, referring to the comprehensive permit process often used for affordable housing projects. The existing building would be repurposed, and plans call for parking to be provided underground.

6, DeSisto said tentative plans call for between 40 and 50 units of workforce housing to be built on the property. The property was sold July 16.ĭeSisto, president of Boston-based Maple Hurst Builders, is listed as the manager of Orleans Plaza LLC. Orleans Plaza LLC purchased the Route 6A property for $2.1 million, according records on file with the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds. The square was sold last month, and there are tentative plans to bring workforce housing to the 3.6-acre site. But Chris DeSisto sees an avenue for using the site to address a growing need not only in town, but across the Cape. The unsightly state of the square, better known as the Underground Mall, has left many Orleans residents to continuously wonder what will ultimately been done to improve it. The storefronts are all abandoned, save for one sign on the building’s far end near Nell’s Way proclaiming “We’ve moved” in florescent green. Meanwhile, the building itself screams vacancy. ORLEANS – Outside long-dormant Bayberry Square, grass sprouts up in patches through cracks across the expansive pavement.

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