FRAMINGHAM – Final design for the McGrath Square intersection project is underway and should be ready for a public hearing “sometime around the first of the year or shortly thereafter,” Mayor Charlie Sisitsky told the City Council Tuesday night in response to a query by District 2 Councilor Brandon Ward.
In addition, “We’re in the process now of negotiating an agreement that will provide for the transfer of [now vacant property] on the corner of Danforth Street to the city in exchange for the transfer of the ownership of the pump station to the owner of Saxonville Mills,” Sisitsky said.
Mill owner Charlotte Finley Maynard bought the property and had an old building there demolished in hopes the city would do an exchange. The property she initially purchased would then be used as part of the intersection to straighten out what is now a dangerous path for cars going from Central Street to Danforth, because it’s difficult for cars traveling north on Concord Street to see those turning vehicles.
“I’m glad to hear we’re close, hopefully within a month, of the formal acquisition of that property on the corner,” Ward said.
“This is one of the intersections that we probably, as a city, hear the most about,” said Councilor-at-Large Janet Leombruno. “it’s been going back years. . . . It always takes more time that we would like.” She urged people to have patience as the project unfolds.
Funding for the work is in the Fiscal 2027 capital budget.
This is the portion of Tuesday’s City Council meeting that discussed the Saxonville intersection project:
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