In Wilmington, a suburb about 15 miles northwest of Boston, The Procopio Cos. has been working to build the small town’s first two multifamily developments in a decade.
The projects aren’t huge: they total less than 100 units in three-story buildings. But the process to get them approved was long and arduous, highlighting the difficulties greater Boston will face as it looks to address its housing shortage.
“To give you a scale of how challenging it is to permit anything, both of them took three and a half years to permit, and they’re tiny projects,” Procopio Cos. CEO Michael Procopio said. “It’s absolutely absurd trying to get stuff done out there.”
