Developer eyes 74 new apartments at former laundry site at 27 Chandler Street
Where a historic building stood for about nine decades until it was torn down to vacate the lot at 27 Chandler St., a developer is looking to build an apartment building with 74 units.
GoVenture Capital Group, a developer long involved in multiple projects across the city, will appear in front of the Zoning Board of Appeals July 20 for its plans.
GoVenture's plans consist of a five-story building comprising 56 one-bedroom units, 10 two-bedroom units and eight studios.

The sizes of the units range from around 550 to 1,000 square feet, plans show.
While the lot at the corner of Irving and Chandler streets where GoVenture wants to build on is vacant, a four-story building dating to 1929 once rose there.
It was home to Hovey Laundry Co., a laundry business of two brothers who grew the business to 175-employees with a fleet of 24 trucks delivering laundered clothes to homes in Worcester and surrounding towns until 1956, when the business folded.
For a time, the building was a piano factory. It also served as the home of the Worcester Youth Center starting in the late 1990s and most recently was the headquarters for a moving company.
Los Angeles-based Benedict Canyon Equities bought the property along with adjacent parcels for $1 million in January 2020 under Chandler Owner in property records, seeking the historic building's demolition shortly after with plans to build apartment units.
In 2021, the Historical Commission denied a demolition delay waiver to the owner, but the pushback only bought a limited amount of time for the building.
Since then, passersby have noticed the building slowly coming down with the excavators gnawing until the eventual flattening.
Worcester-based GoVenture, who are looking to develop the 74-unit project on the property, will appear in front of the Zoning Board of Appeals July 20.
Over recent years the developer has hands in multiple projects across the city, building 111-apartment complex The Kiln in 2023, and currently working on a 364-unit building at 274 Franklin St., for which it has sought a $11.3 million in tax relief over 15 years in exchange of affordable units.
GoVenture also wants to construct two residential buildings with a total of 250 units at the site of Tanela Restaurant, a fairly popular former restaurant on Route 20 in Shrewsbury.