Lowell

Work begins on new housing at former UMass Lowell campus

By Grant Welker • Published March 8, 2024 • Updated on March 8, 2024 at 9:53 am

A rendering of the Alexan Chelmsford housing development on a former UMass Lowell campus.

A former piece of UMass Lowell will soon become a 340-unit housing development.

Developer Trammell Crow Residential said Thursday it has started construction on a development that'll be named Alexan Chelmsford. The site is just over the town line from Lowell in the town of Chelmsford, about two miles west of UMass Lowell’s south campus in Lowell.

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