Gov. Baker Marketing State Sites for Housing, Eco. Development

BOSTON—Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is now marketing under-utilized or unused properties throughout the Commonwealth for possible sale or lease in order to facilitate new affordable or market-rate housing development or other business-related uses.

The governor’s Real Estate Asset Leveraging Strategy was unveiled earlier this week at an open house attended by representatives of businesses and state agencies such as the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the Massachusetts Port Authority, MassDevelopment and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance. Of the Commonwealth’s more than 20,000 properties, approximately 15,000 are held by DCAMM, 4,000 by the MBTA and 1,700 by MassDOT.