Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
Founded in 1979, VHB has grown to be one of New England’s preeminent engineering and consulting firms. For 2006, VHB was ranked 84th of the top 500 engineering firms nationwide by Engineering News Record. A staff of over 900 professionals across 18 offices along the eastern seaboard provides integrated transportation, land development, and environmental services. By providing the best technical skills in each practice area in an integrated and coordinated manner, VHB has delivered innovative and pragmatic design solutions for some of today’s most complex infrastructure and land improvement projects. Projects include major highway and land development projects, large-scale urban and suburban developments, waterfront projects, and major airport and railway facilities. Relevant services for the Legacy Farms project include:

Land Development Services. VHB is uniquely suited to provide integrated land development services to assist public, private and institutional clients in land planning and engineering. VHB’s unique approach to land development brings together skills of land planning, field survey, environmental sciences, traffic, and civil engineering to allow us to perform detailed assessment and analysis of the site’s existing natural and infrastructure conditions. From this information, VHB’s planners, engineers, scientists, and landscape architects formulate innovative development plans that create opportunities for economic growth, improved quality of life, and environmental betterment.

Site Engineering. VHB designs site improvements including the preparation of contract plans, specifications, and estimates, parking lot design, utilities design including water and sewer distribution systems, grading and drainage design, stormwater management, erosion control design, and design of structural improvements.

Planning Services. VHB provides conceptual and technical planning services to facilitate large-scale, complex, and mixed-use developments. Our projects include community visioning, zoning and design guidelines, master planning for land use/development and municipalities, feasibility and site analyses, downtown revitalization strategies, site planning, and many others. A major goal of VHB’s planning services is providing sensitive and responsive development.

Transportation Services. VHB provides complete transportation engineering services from program management and project planning through design, obtaining environmental and project permits, and construction management on all modes of travel. Where projects are multi-modal, VHB anticipates and plans for the needs and interface of various transportation modes. Additionally, VHB provides transportation planning services for a wide variety of private and public sector clients in both urban and suburban areas. Transportation planners offer the ability to develop and combine technical modeling procedures with pragmatic transportation planning and traffic operations applications.

Environmental Services. As environmental regulations have evolved, VHB has developed the skills base to assist clients in the evaluation of the environmental constraints of redevelopment projects and the development of an environmental strategy that will ensure the success of a redevelopment plan. VHB offers a great depth of experience in environmental planning, resource area identification and mitigation, permit preparation, and design of mitigation plans to offset environmental impacts.

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Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
Goulston & Storrs has one of the largest, most diverse, and most highly acclaimed Real Estate practices in the United States. Named the #1 Real Estate Firm in Massachusetts by Chambers & Partners and ranked #1 in a survey of Boston firms by The American Lawyer, the firm is home to many nationally recognized attorneys, including members of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. The Real Estate Practice serves clients through decades of experience in real estate development, entity formation, tax planning, acquisition, finance, leasing and environmental law. Goulston & Storrs provides legal service, advice and coordination for sophisticated real estate transactions involving entrepreneurs, institutions and public and private entities.

Major regional and national developers, entrepreneurs, investment funds, REITS, property owners, and commercial tenants, regularly seek the advice, counsel, and assistance of the more than 85 attorneys and 7 paralegals in the Real Estate Practice to further their business objectives, locally, nationally and internationally. Regional and national real estate lenders and investors consistently look to Goulston & Storrs as counsel for their sophisticated debt and equity real estate investments including the structuring of syndicated and capital market transactions.

Goulston & Storrs has particular experience in the development of substantial commercial real estate projects, including multi-family, residential, and mixed-use projects. Firm attorneys regularly work with the gamut of federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing real estate development and use. The firm is also experienced in issues concerning wetlands, air and water quality, traffic and parking, zoning, contaminated property reuse, historical restrictions and environmental regulation. As part of its development team, Goulston & Storrs’ work includes analyzing permitting requirements, working with public officials and community groups, and rendering legal opinions to lenders. The extent and regularity of its work in this area has allowed Goulston & Storrs’ attorneys to establish excellent working relationships with public authorities and agencies at all levels.

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Connery Associates
Connery Associates is a sole proprietor firm offering a broad range of land use planning and development services to meet the diverse needs of public and private clients. Located in Melrose, Massachusetts, the firm has served over one hundred and twenty municipal and private clients. Areas of expertise include master plans, zoning, downtown revitalization, public participation, economic development, and fiscal impact studies. The firm’s professional objective has always been to find practical solutions that improve local and regional quality of life. John W. Connery, founding principal, has thirty five years of planning and development experience. Mr. Connery has been the principal partner in Connery Associates since its inception in 1981 and has managed more than 200 municipal planning contracts and 65 private development projects. Mr. Connery has developed an expertise in municipal zoning, fiscal impact analysis, and project permitting.

Current private sector projects include residential and commercial fiscal impact studies in Massachusetts including the expansion of Mashpee Commons, the Natick Mall, life style shopping centers in Reading, Dedham, Lynnfield, Waltham and Westwood. He is also preparing a fiscal impact studies for 40B and traditional residential developments throughout the Commonwealth. With Judi Barrett (principal author) of Community Opportunities Group he has assisted in the development of a 42 community case study regarding the relationship of school aged children and multi-family hosing and the resulting fiscal impacts.

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Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
Founded in 1957, Haley & Aldrich has 50 years of experience providing leading edge underground engineering and environmental consulting services, nationally and internationally. With corporate offices in Boston and 19 offices throughout the United States, the firm’s staff encompasses a wide range of disciplines, offering clients integrated underground engineering and environmental solutions. Environmental services include corrective action; environmental management; health and safety consulting; and environmental site assessment/due diligence. Underground engineering services include geotechnical engineering; tunnel design and construction management services; waste containment; and ground improvement engineering.

Throughout its history, Haley & Aldrich has combined a thorough understanding of soil and rock materials with geotechnical engineering and ground modification methods to solve complex site development and construction problems. The firm’s project experience includes a broad range of buildings, highways, dams, tunnels, marine facilities, and other infrastructure improvements. Haley & Aldrich’s environmental practice is focused on assisting private sector clients through the complex technical and regulatory issues involved with environmental liability. The firm has developed an integrated practice to provide services throughout all phases of site evaluation, remedial design, construction, and post-construction monitoring.

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Geosphere Environmental Management, Inc.
GEOSPHERE is committed to providing the most responsive and technologically sophisticated environmental and hydrogeologic consulting services available in the Northeast.

Our team has been selected for the high caliber of their skills and their understanding of innovative technologies.

Most importantly, they are forward-thinking individuals who exemplify GEOSPHERE's dedication to maintaining and preserving natural resources for future generations.

Our objective is to remain a small consulting firm focused on providing the highest quality technical services at a reasonable cost with an over-riding commitment to understanding and meeting the needs and goals of our clients.

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Tata & Howard, Inc.
Founded in 1992 with the commitment to provide quality engineering services, Tata & Howard specializes in water and wastewater consulting services. The firm provides strong technical knowledge and personalized collaborative service. Tata & Howard enjoys a reputation for providing clients with cost efficient, innovative solutions while minimizing costs in three ways: establishing a team environment both in-house and with clients; utilizing specialized experience in the field; and maintaining low overhead rates resulting in lower fees. All of the firm’s projects undergo independent technical reviews by senior staff not directly associated with the project.

The Tata & Howard staff has extensive experience in development of new water sources, from the exploration and evaluation stage through start-up assistance. The firm also provides a wide range of evaluation, planning, design and construction services related to onsite wastewater treatment and disposal projects for both public and private clients. These services require various permits in accordance with local, state and federal agency requirements Tata & Howard provides assistance to their clients in obtaining the necessary permits.

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Beals and Thomas, Inc.
Founded in 1984, Beals and Thomas, Inc. is a multidisciplinary consulting firm providing professional services that support the development and conservation of land and water resources throughout New England. Committed to preserving the integrity of the New England landscape through sound environmental design, Beals and Thomas has established a corporate identity based on a balanced perspective with the planning, development, and conservation of land and water resources, while consistently examining the potential of environmental planning and design beyond the traditional. A team approach ensures comprehensive management and attention to detail by combining the experience of civil engineers, landscape architects, land surveyors, environmental specialists, and planners.

Beals and Thomas specializes in civil engineering, environmental services, landscape architecture, land surveying, planning, permitting, and wetlands consulting, bringing together the perspectives of our professional staff to provide the leadership and management necessary to address client and project needs in a comprehensive and responsive manner. A cooperative multidisciplinary approach and commitment to dedicate the necessary time and staff to meet project schedules prepares clients to respond to a range of issues with timely and cost-effective solutions. In addition, the firm’s ability and experience to manage large, complex projects includes a sensitivity in which land development goals and objectives are balanced with environmental and regulatory considerations.

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Douglas W. Resnick, Esquire
Practicing real estate and land-use law for over 29 years, Douglas Resnick has obtained permits and approvals for dozens of residential subdivisions, two substantial shopping centers (Franklin Village in Franklin, Massachusetts and Milford Square in Milford, Massachusetts) and several mixed-use projects, most recently the “Maple Avenue Planned Village Development” in Upton, Massachusetts. Mr. Resnick also does a significant amount of residential and commercial mortgage conveyance.

As a long-time resident of Hopkinton, Massachusetts (28 years), Mr. Resnick finds it particularly rewarding to work on Hopkinton projects which benefit the Town in significant ways. His role on the Legacy Farms Project Team will be to serve as local counsel to Boulder Capital LLC. Having lived and worked in Hopkinton most of his adult life, Mr. Resnick’s understanding and affection for the community will be capitalized on this project in ways that he hopes will advance the interests of the Town and its citizens.

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