Located on the site of the former Kraft Atlantic Gelatin Facility, The Vale will be a dynamic new mixed-use development with Class A office, lab, R&D, biomanufacturing, retail, residential, and medical office. This redevelopment fulfills the City of Woburn’s business and technology development goals and will provide much needed environmental remediation work, create new job opportunities, and spur economic development in the community.

The Vale will bring a variety of new housing options to the community, including townhomes, condominiums, and senior housing, addressing the documented local need for both market-rate and affordable housing.

New retail and landscaped open spaces will encourage public use and enjoyment of the site while preserving 28 acres of undeveloped open space and natural resource areas, providing an important undeveloped buffer to the Aberjona Riverfront Area, and a new connection between the site and the Tri-Community Greenway.

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Environmental Clean Up

The Vale will provide much needed environmental remediation work, including the removal of more than 400,000 SF of existing dilapidated structures and the remediation and restoration of approximately 14,615 SF of wetlands in the southwest portion of the site.

Open Space

The Vale will create new landscaped open spaces across the site to encourage public use and enjoyment and will construct a new connection between the site and the existing Tri-Community Greenway. The project also preserves approximately 28 acres of undeveloped open space and natural resource areas, amounting to approximately 35 percent of the Project’s contiguous area. Overall, the Project will result in a net gain of wetlands on the property.

Restoration of Sweetwater Brook

The Vale project goes well beyond the requirements of the Wetlands Protection Act regulations, not only avoiding and minimizing impacts to wetland resource areas and providing an improvement to the Riverfront Area, but also providing a full stream restoration to naturalize this highly altered stream. The proposed Project restores approximately 800 feet of Sweetwater Brook to a significantly improved naturalized state.

Climate Resiliency

The redevelopment of The Vale site affords the opportunity to enhance the natural resource of Sweetwater Brook, improve stormwater management, recover riverbank that is presently enclosed within culverted sections of Sweetwater Brook, and convert degraded impervious land into new green space.

Housing

The Vale will bring a variety of new housing options to serve a broad set of households and address a documented local need for market-rate and affordable housing, including townhomes, apartments, condominiums, and senior housing. The project will include 30 new affordable housing units.

Economic Development

The Vale will create new construction-period jobs as well as permanent job opportunities while spurring economic development through the phased construction of a mix of retail, office, lab, and R&D uses. The project is anticipated to generate approximately $6.5M annually in new real estate taxes for the City of Woburn after completion of the full build-out.