Falmouth Select Board Rescinds $3.4 Million Workforce Housing Award in 4-1 Vote

FALMOUTH — June 8, 2026 — Falmouth Select Board voted 4-1 to rescind a $3.4 million affordable housing award to Bushwood 545, LLC, ending a multi-year bid to convert a historic downtown building into workforce housing. Chair Heather Goldstone and members Megan Klein, Thomas Muscali, and Colin Reid cited repeated written assurances from the property seller that no deal involving developer Michael Glass would proceed; member Douglas Brown dissented. Glass, who said his firm had spent $500,000 and five years on the project, told the board, "You're willing to take $3.4 million away from a project that this community wants and deserves for our workers." The board also voted unanimously to submit the town's Draft Environmental Impact Report for its ocean outfall project to the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act office, a step Wastewater Superintendent Amy Lowell said would launch public and regulatory comment and keep a projected 2031-2032 construction finish date within reach; the project is designed to cut nitrogen discharge to Nantucket Sound by at least 12,000 kilograms per year. The affordable housing fund's remaining balance now stands at approximately $200,000.