Sal’s Pizza owner breaks ground on mixed use project with 1,100 homes

Sal s Pizza owner Salvatore Lupoli isn t just baking fresh pies these days he s building an entire real estate empire and topping it with more than a thousand new housing units Lupoli CEO of the Lupoli Companies was in Littleton on Monday to break ground at King Street the site of a former IBM complex and the planned home of a massive outlay into the Nashoba Valley town called the King Street Passing Project The CEO was joined at the ceremonial ground developing by Gov Maura Healey U S Rep Lori Trahan former Lt Gov Karyn Polito Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities Ed Augustus state Sen Jamie Eldridge state Rep James Arciero and members of the Littleton Select Board among other state and local bureaucrats to mark another step in solving the state s housing dilemma In no time where you re sitting is going to be transformed This is going to be a village it s just going to be unbelievable Healey described the ground developing attendees King Street is a hugely crucial project for Massachusetts The plan would transform the -acre site into a commercial park with over square feet of office and lab space HIPER Global an electronics manufacturer has already leased square feet for the construction of their new global headquarters About housing units are planned to go alongside the businesses and amenities like a -room hotel square feet of restaurants and retail shops and populace greenspaces The site sits just minutes away from the MBTA commuter rail and close to I- According to a master plan filed with the town of Littleton the advancement calls for of the housing units to be affordable units priced for those making of the area median income or less with about half of those set aside as to AMI-cost housing for seniors The governor announced the project shows what is feasible in Massachusetts when residents and private interests align and represents the very best of private-public partnership It turns out you can have kick-ass economic expansion you can bring in more housing you can create more vibrancy and all of our residents are going to do well by it she stated Healey gave credit to her predecessors in the Baker-Polito Administration for passing the grant funding required for Lupoli to get the massive project off the ground Lupoli credited his employees and thanked his family for their ongoing advocacy before explaining how grateful he was to be provided the opportunity to build in Littleton I just want to give you my word governor I will never let you down I will do whatever it takes this organization will do whatever it takes And I m grateful and I m truly humbled by the town of Littleton to the show the leadership to show every other city and town in the state of Massachusetts that you don t have to have a population of a million people to do big bold audacious things The town of Littleton has set that class he revealed