Larry Gottesdiener is the chair at Northland, a Newton real estate firm with $8 billion of assets under management, and also manages the Atlanta Dream WNBA team.
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On paper, the 822-unit Pattern District project developed by Newton-based real estate firm Northland is exactly what’s needed to address Massachusetts’ housing crisis.
It will be hundreds of apartments — including 145 set aside at less-expensive rents for lower- and middle-income tenants — surrounding 1.5 acres of green space on what has long been parking lots, and a renovated mill that sits on the National Register of Historic Places. When complete, Northland says the project will be the largest privately funded development in the country to meet the rigorous environmental standards required for Passive House certification…