Property brief | Medford, Massachusetts

100 & 101 Winthrop St, Medford, MA 02155

Two adjacent parcels in Medford's Hillside neighborhood offering an existing institutional building, dedicated parking parcel, walkable Green Line access, and multiple paths for owner-use, adaptive reuse, or redevelopment.

0.53 ac Combined site: 0.33 ac + 0.20 ac
GR + SF2 Two zoning profiles
2 parcels Building plus parking parcel
MBTA Walkable Green Line access

The facts for the first internal approval meeting

The decision point is not simply whether Tufts needs another building. It is whether walkable control of an existing institutional asset plus a separate parking parcel can solve near-campus program pressure faster than a new construction or lease process.

Decision frame

Near-campus control with immediate program-space utility

100 Winthrop provides existing rooms for assembly, teaching, counseling, food service, administration, student support, and community engagement. 101 Winthrop preserves parking, access, service logistics, and future campus-support flexibility.

Campus adjacency Tufts edge

Walkable to campus and the Medford/Tufts Green Line station.

Parcel control 0.53 ac combined

100 Winthrop is the 0.33 acre main property; 101 Winthrop adds 0.20 acres of separately controlled parking and service-access flexibility.

Parking control 20+ spaces

Approx. 20+ surface spaces, two driveways serving 100 Winthrop, and 9,000 sq ft of asphalt paving noted at 101 Winthrop.

Use profile Institutional assembly

Existing institutional classification; confirm allowed campus-support uses during diligence.

Zoning GR + SF2

100 Winthrop: GR. 101 Winthrop: SF2. Use-specific review should be completed before program reliance.

Construction history c. 1950

Current structure reportedly built after a fire; reviewer to verify against municipal and historical records.

All specifications, history, dates, dimensions, zoning references, parking counts, condition statements, concept images, and use assumptions are preliminary diligence inputs only. Reviewer is solely responsible for verifying all information with municipal records, survey, zoning, legal, engineering, environmental, architectural, accessibility, facilities, risk, insurance, and other appropriate advisors.

Long-held institutional property with a mid-century replacement structure

The property has reportedly been institutionally held since the early 1900s. After a fire, the current structure was built circa 1950 and has continued to function as a community-serving institutional building. Reviewers should verify the ownership timeline, fire history, construction date, permits, and related municipal records during diligence.

A close-in Medford Hillside position Tufts can evaluate quickly

The parcels sit north of Tufts, within walking range of the Medford/Tufts Green Line station and close enough to I-93, Cambridge, and Boston to support multiple user groups without giving up neighborhood context.

Primary site 100 & 101 Winthrop St

Adjacent building and parking parcels in Medford Hillside: approx. 0.53 acres combined, with 0.33 acres at 100 Winthrop plus 0.20 acres at 101 Winthrop.

Education anchor Tufts University

Campus edge location for housing pressure, student support, education, and community-serving uses.

Transit access Medford/Tufts Green Line

Approximately 0.4 miles from the site, supporting car-light staff, students, visitors, and program users.

Regional reach I-93, Cambridge, Boston

Highway and urban-core access support staff, service, event, and community partnership logistics.

What makes this hard to replace

The site combines an existing institutional building, a separate parking parcel, and walkable Tufts/Green Line access. For a campus-adjacent institutional use, those pieces are more useful together than evaluated separately.

Transit

Walkable Green Line access

Medford/Tufts access gives staff, students, visitors, and program users a practical car-light path into Cambridge and Boston.

Control

A separate parking parcel

101 Winthrop is not leftover land. It complements the main property's two driveways and preserves flexibility for parking, service access, or future campus-support needs.

Scale

14,874 sq ft institutional building

The existing improvement gives Tufts usable assembly, classroom, office, community hall, and kitchen areas before a major capital project is considered.

Optionality

Multiple campus-support paths

Tufts can evaluate housing support, service-learning, wellness, interfaith, event, classroom, and office uses without depending on one program assumption.

Two parcels, one campus-use evaluation

The concept imagery and parcel analysis are best read together: 100 Winthrop provides the existing institutional building, while 101 Winthrop supports parking, service access, circulation, and future campus-support flexibility.

100 Winthrop St campus entrance concept

Main building opportunity

  • Existing institutional building with large assembly spaces.
  • Potential for student-support, academic, wellness, community, or administrative reuse.
  • Approx. 0.33 acre main parcel with two driveways serving access and circulation.
101 Winthrop St parking concept

Parking, access, and future flexibility

  • Separate 0.20 acre parcel currently used for surface parking.
  • Separate zoning profile should be reviewed for parking, access, and use constraints.
  • Parking materially improves the main building's operating flexibility.
Exterior side entry and existing property sign
Side entry and exterior access
Exterior driveway and rear access area
Driveway and rear access

Existing layout and room program

The building includes large gathering spaces on both levels, multiple classroom or office rooms, kitchens, restrooms, and several exterior exits. These plans help reviewers understand the current operating layout before starting reuse, programming, or renovation studies.

100 Winthrop St upstairs floor plan
Upstairs floor plan - main assembly hall, auditorium, meeting rooms, offices, kitchen, and exits
100 Winthrop St downstairs floor plan
Downstairs floor plan - community hall, cafe, kitchen, classrooms, library, and exits
Main entry hall with wood floors and adjacent rooms
Main entry hall
Meeting room with long table and wood flooring
Meeting room
Secondary view of meeting room with windows and seating
Meeting room - alternate view
Upper-level circulation area with stairs and adjacent rooms
Upper-level circulation
Classroom with blue chairs and piano
Classroom - lower level
Long lower-level corridor with classroom doors
Lower-level corridor
Hallway leading to classroom area
Classroom corridor
Classroom with chalkboard and materials
Classroom
Classroom with orange chairs and activity table
Classroom
Classroom with blackboard and books
Classroom
Small-group room with sofas, shelving, and tall windows
Small-group room
Open classroom with sink and materials
Classroom
Classroom with sink, windows, and activity tables
Classroom

Before / after concept views

These paired images use current room photos and virtual staging to show potential campus-support scenarios. They are concept visuals only and should be evaluated separately from physical condition, code, cost, and approval diligence.

Current Current main assembly hall center aisle
Potential Virtually staged interfaith and wellness center concept

Interfaith and wellness center concept

Shows how the existing main assembly hall volume could be studied for quiet interfaith, wellness, reflection, and small gathering use.

Current Current auditorium stage and open floor
Potential Virtually staged performance event and function hall concept

Performance / event / function hall concept

Shows how the hall could be studied as a flexible university venue for lectures, ceremonies, performances, rehearsals, meetings, and function-space use.

Current Current auditorium rear view
Potential Virtually staged lecture event and performance seating concept

Lecture / event seating concept

Shows a seated event layout that could support university lectures, performances, ceremonies, community gatherings, and formal functions.

Current Current lower-level corridor
Potential Virtually staged lower-level office corridor concept

Office corridor concept

Shows a more finished corridor condition for admin, faculty overflow, counseling, or student-service offices.

Current Current upper floor hall and stair landing
Potential Virtually staged upper floor hall concept

Upper floor hall concept

Shows how the existing circulation could present with coordinated finishes, brighter lighting, and a more polished arrival sequence.

Current Current upper floor circulation area
Potential Virtually staged upper floor circulation concept

Upper floor circulation concept

Shows a cleaner finish strategy for the upper floor hallways and connecting areas.

Current Current restroom corridor
Potential Virtually staged bathroom corridor concept

Bathroom corridor concept

Shows a more finished restroom corridor presentation with updated doors, lighting, flooring, and wayfinding.

Current Current kitchen service area
Potential Virtually staged community kitchen service concept

Community kitchen service concept

Shows how the existing kitchen infrastructure could support food access, service-learning, and recurring community meal programs.

Current Current lower-level community hall
Potential Virtually staged community hall dining concept

Community hall dining concept

Shows a dining, meeting, or community-use configuration for the lower-level program hall.

Current Current kitchen prep area
Potential Virtually staged community kitchen prep concept

Community kitchen prep concept

Illustrates a refreshed prep layout for organized food-service operations, storage, serving, and volunteer workflow.

Current Current classroom open area
Potential Virtually staged classroom concept

Classroom concept

Shows how one of the existing classroom rooms could be presented for preschool, tutoring, or small-group use.

Current Current classroom with blackboard
Potential Virtually staged student housing overflow concept

Student housing overflow concept

Shows how the existing classroom-style room could be studied for overnight support, shared table space, and student housing overflow capacity.

Current Current classroom with orange chairs
Potential Virtually staged classroom concept with orange chairs

Classroom programming concept

Shows another education-oriented layout for student groups, tutoring, trainings, or campus partner programming.

Current Current lower-level community hall
Potential Virtually staged community hall alternate concept

Community hall alternate concept

Shows an alternate program hall furniture plan with dining, lounge, and refreshment zones.

Current Current meeting room with long table
Potential Virtually staged meeting suite concept

Meeting suite concept

Shows a meeting-oriented configuration for leadership meetings, counseling, student support, or program administration.

Current Current flexible meeting room area
Potential Virtually staged small-group support room concept

Small-group support room concept

Shows a cleaner room presentation for student support, family services, education, or small-group programming.

Potential images are virtually staged concept visuals provided only to help reviewers imagine possible use of the spaces. They may not be accurate in style, layout, finishes, dimensions, code compliance, cost, feasibility, or permitted condition, and are not plans, approvals, construction drawings, or representations of completed or permitted improvements.

Practical Tufts-oriented program fits

These are operating scenarios to evaluate against the existing room program, kitchen infrastructure, assembly spaces, parking, code requirements, and any approvals needed for university or university-affiliated use.

Primary Use Cases

Overnight / housing support

Student Housing Overflow / Backup

Overnight-ready building, reportedly already used by Tufts students for pre-semester community service trips. Existing bedding and sleeping capacity should be verified during diligence.

Food service / outreach

Community Kitchen / Food Access Hub

Kitchen infrastructure is already in place and could support community outreach, service-learning, and food access programs subject to health, licensing, staffing, and operating requirements.

Gathering space

Theatre / Event / Function Space

The main assembly hall and lower-level community hall provide large-format rooms that could support lectures, ceremonies, performances, receptions, meetings, student functions, and university gatherings with relatively clear circulation and support-space adjacencies.

Academic support

Classrooms / Instructional Space

Multiple rooms are already configured for group learning, making academic, tutoring, training, or seminar use a lower-conversion scenario than a building without existing classrooms.

Additional Use Cases

Interfaith / Reflection Center

Turnkey spiritual and community space that fits chaplaincy, interfaith, reflection, belonging, and student-support programming.

Student Wellness or Counseling Annex

Private, off-campus-feeling rooms could support counseling, wellness, case-management, or small-group services.

Performance / Event / Function Rooms

High-ceiling assembly hall volume and supporting rooms could be studied for theatre, performance, rehearsal, lecture, event, reception, or flexible function-space use.

Graduate Student Housing (with conversion)

The square footage and layout may support residential conversion analysis for graduate or overflow student housing, subject to zoning, code, cost, and feasibility review.

Admin / Faculty Overflow Offices

Existing office and classroom rooms could serve departments needing satellite space within walking distance of campus.

Community Partnership Hub

The established neighborhood presence could support town-gown programming, civic engagement, neighborhood partnerships, and service-learning operations.

Use cases are planning concepts only. Any university, institutional, residential, food-service, counseling, assembly, or instructional use should be verified against zoning, building code, accessibility, licensing, life safety, operations, and institutional approval requirements.

100 Winthrop St - use approval questions

Verify Early

Current zoning and code requirements still control. A Tufts or institutional review should confirm permitted use, change-of-use requirements, assembly occupancy, accessibility, life safety, parking, and any special-permit or site-plan process before relying on a specific program.

Current useInstitutional assembly
Parcel sizes0.53 ac combined
Review focusInstitutional reuse

Items that may support institutional reuse

  • Transit and campus context: Medford/Tufts Green Line access and Tufts proximity support staff, student, visitor, and community access.
  • Existing institutional building: assembly rooms, classrooms, kitchens, offices, and community hall areas already align with university-support programs.
  • Separate parking parcel: 101 Winthrop can support interim operations, service access, staff parking, or logistics during program review.
  • Flexible room program: the current layout gives facilities teams multiple ways to study near-term use before larger capital decisions.

Items to verify before internal approval

  • Current rules remain the base case: no use should be assumed until confirmed with zoning counsel and municipal review.
  • Change-of-use requirements: dormitory, counseling, food-service, classroom, event, and office uses may each trigger different reviews.
  • Life safety and accessibility: egress, bathrooms, sprinklers, fire alarm, accessibility, and occupancy load should be scoped early.
  • Parking and site operations: deliveries, shuttles, service vehicles, events, and neighborhood impacts should be modeled by use case.
Current status: treat zoning, building code, health, accessibility, parking, and assembly-use requirements as diligence items. The property should be evaluated against the actual institutional program Tufts wants to test.

Institutional priorities this site can support

For Tufts, the relevant questions are campus fit, operating use, facilities scope, governance review, and long-term control near campus. Detailed diligence materials can be provided to Tufts' facilities, real estate, campus planning, treasury, legal, or outside-advisor teams on request.

Housing pressure

Near-campus overflow and swing capacity

The existing room program, sleeping-capacity history, kitchens, bathrooms, and walkable Tufts location make the building worth studying for temporary, pre-semester, graduate, or overflow student-support uses.

Community engagement

Service-learning and town-gown programming

Kitchen, community hall, classroom, and assembly areas align with community outreach, food access, student service programs, neighborhood partnerships, and civic engagement activity already associated with the site.

Campus adjacency

Flexible satellite space near the core campus

The combined building and parking position gives a facilities or real estate team a nearby option for classrooms, counseling, interfaith programming, offices, theatre/event/function use, or interim space without depending on main-campus construction.

What Tufts should confirm next

If the site fits a real university need, the next step is focused diligence on program fit, facility scope, approvals, and internal review timing.

1

Confirm program fit

Prioritize the use cases Tufts would actually study: housing overflow, service-learning, wellness, interfaith, theatre/event/function space, classrooms, or offices.

2

Confirm facility scope

Assess envelope, systems, accessibility, assembly occupancy, bathrooms, egress, kitchen compliance, and renovation scope.

3

Confirm review path

Identify the internal stakeholders, governance steps, municipal approvals, tour needs, and records required for institutional review.

Offered at $2,950,000

For Tufts or institutional reviewers evaluating ownership and campus-use potential, contact the listing agent to discuss fit, tour availability, diligence materials, and offer timing.

Listing Agent Aiden Rhaa 617-939-1648 bostonreinvest@gmail.com

Venture Real Estate, Inc.

MA License #9553857