Four people left an Edgartown select board meeting last week with the opportunity to buy a home within the new Meshacket Commons affordable housing complex.
Empire Builders, whose worker fell and died at an Edgartown construction site in February, is being fined nearly $20,000 for failing to give the proper safety training to its employees.
Island and state police are investigating the death of Jose Luis Collaguazo Crespo after he fell at the Meshacket Commons project Tuesday.
Silver and green shovels struck the ground Thursday marking the beginning of construction for Meshacket Commons, an affordable housing complex off Meshacket Road in Edgartown.
The planned Edgartown affordable housing complex was one of 27 projects statewide that won a combined $246 million from the state.
Meshacket Commons cleared another bureaucratic hurdle this week after a public hearing hosted by the Edgartown zoning board of appeals yielded zero opposition to the proposed affordable housing development.