Greater Nashua
Top two developers make pitches to transform Elm Street School into housing
NASHUA - The Lansing Melbourne Group and Pennrose recently emerged as the two finalists competing for the task of converting the former Elm Street Middle School into a housing complex. During the first of two public information sessions, Mayor James Donchess said the city received four proposals with Lansing Melbourne and Pennrose coming out on top. Timothy Engelbert, a director at Randall-Paulson Architects, a subcontractor of Lansing Melbourne, said residents should have the choice of either renting or buying. “We can’t only have apartments,” he said during the April 10 meeting. “We need to have townhouses.” Engelbert said the school building would be demolished with the exception of the Keefe Auditorium. “We’re keeping that memory in place,” he said. “We’ve used it as an anchor for our design.” The development would include 59 units of affordable ...
