The Newbury of Brookline, a senior living community in Brookline, was built on the former Newbury College campus, which closed in 2019. (Sebastian Restrepo/MassLive)
Editor’s note: Since 2014, over two dozen Massachusetts colleges closed due to financial difficulties, leaving large tracts of land for possible development, including much-needed housing. This is the first of three articles that examine whether shuttered college campuses can be a solution to the state’s housing crisis.
When Patrick Cameron took a high school job mowing lawns on Becker College’s Worcester Campus, he never imagined a campus building would one day become his home.
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