Adjacent building and parking parcels in Medford Hillside, roughly 0.53 acres combined.
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
Controlled site position
GR + SF2
Two zoning profiles
2 parcels
Building plus parking parcel
MBTA
Walkable Green Line access
Design Concepts
Potential design renderings
Concept imagery helps buyers see the range of outcomes the parcels could support: mission-oriented renovation, adaptive residential conversion, subdivided-lot development, or a separate 101 Winthrop residential path.
100 Winthrop St
101 Winthrop St
Property Specs
The facts a buyer needs before the first internal approval meeting
The package is easiest to evaluate when the operating asset and the parking parcel are viewed together: existing building utility at 100 Winthrop, plus control, parking, and optionality at 101 Winthrop.
| Building sq ft | 14,874 sq ft living area per FY2026 assessor record |
|---|---|
| Year built | Current structure reportedly built circa 1950 after a fire; buyer to verify against municipal and historical records |
| Current use | Religious / institutional; assessor use noted as Church/Temple |
| Lot sizes | 100 Winthrop: 14,874 sq ft | 101 Winthrop: 0.20 acres |
| Zoning | 100 Winthrop: GR | 101 Winthrop: SF2 |
| Parking | Approx. 20+ surface spaces; 101 Winthrop assessor record notes 9,000 sq ft of asphalt paving |
| MBTA access | Walkable to Medford/Tufts Green Line station |
All specifications, history, dates, dimensions, zoning references, parking counts, condition statements, concept images, and use assumptions are preliminary diligence inputs only. Buyer is solely responsible for verifying all information with municipal records, survey, zoning, legal, engineering, environmental, architectural, lending, insurance, and other appropriate advisors.
Building History
Long-held church property with a mid-century replacement structure
The church has reportedly owned the property since the early 1900s. After a fire, the current structure was built circa 1950 and has continued to serve religious and institutional use. Buyers should verify the ownership timeline, fire history, construction date, permits, and any related municipal records during diligence.
Location Context
A close-in Medford Hillside position buyers 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.
Campus edge demand driver for housing, nonprofit, education, and community-serving uses.
Approximately 0.4 miles from the site, supporting car-light staff, visitors, tenants, and residents.
Highway and urban-core access broaden the buyer universe beyond a neighborhood-only use case.
Asset Overview
What makes this hard to replace
Most buyers can find a building without parking, or land without immediate use, or a transit-accessible address without control of the adjacent parcel. The reason this opportunity matters is that those pieces sit together.
Transit
Walkable Green Line access
Medford/Tufts access gives staff, residents, visitors, tenants, and congregants a practical car-light path into Cambridge and Boston.
Control
A separate parking parcel
101 Winthrop is not leftover land. It protects operating use now and preserves a second decision for parking, tenant value, or future development.
Scale
14,874 sq ft institutional building
The existing improvement gives a buyer usable assembly, classroom, office, fellowship, and kitchen areas before any ground-up thesis is considered.
Optionality
More than one credible exit
A buyer can evaluate operating reuse, partial tenanting, adaptive reuse, or redevelopment without depending on only one future approval path.
Key takeaway: the combined offering pairs immediate building utility
with separate-parcel parking and future optionality, creating a site position
that is difficult to reproduce in the Medford Hillside market.
Parcel Strategy
Two parcels, two distinct sources of value
A buyer can keep the parcels together for operating efficiency, or separate the valuation into a main-building thesis and a parking/development thesis.
100 Winthrop St
Main building opportunity
- Existing institutional building with large assembly spaces.
- Potential for community, educational, religious, residential, or mixed reuse.
- Large lot position relative to surrounding residential parcels.
101 Winthrop St
Parking and development optionality
- Separate 0.20 acre parcel currently used for surface parking.
- Single Family 2 zoning profile creates independent development potential.
- Parking materially improves the main building's buyer universe.
Floor Plans
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 buyers understand the current operating layout before starting reuse, tenanting, or renovation studies.
Current Condition Photos
Existing building condition and room program
The current building already contains a sanctuary, auditorium, fellowship hall, kitchens, classrooms, offices, circulation areas, and exterior access points. The photos below are intended to help buyers understand scale, layout, and reuse potential before scheduling a walkthrough.
Virtually Staged Before / After Potential
Interfaith and wellness center concept
Shows how the existing sanctuary volume could be studied for quiet interfaith, wellness, reflection, and small gathering use.
Theater / event hall concept
Shows a performance-oriented configuration for lectures, ceremonies, rehearsal, and black-box theater use.
Lecture and performance seating concept
Shows a seated event layout that could support university lectures, performances, ceremonies, and community gatherings.
Office corridor concept
Shows a more finished corridor condition for admin, faculty overflow, counseling, or student-service offices.
Upper floor hall concept
Shows how the existing circulation could present with coordinated finishes, brighter lighting, and a more polished arrival sequence.
Upper floor circulation concept
Shows a cleaner finish strategy for the upper floor hallways and connecting areas.
Bathroom corridor concept
Shows a more finished restroom corridor presentation with updated doors, lighting, flooring, and wayfinding.
Community kitchen service concept
Shows how the existing kitchen infrastructure could support food ministry, service-learning, and recurring community meal programs.
Student housing overflow concept
Shows an overnight support configuration with sleeping capacity, shared table space, and kitchenette-style amenity.
Community kitchen prep concept
Illustrates a refreshed prep layout for organized food-service operations, storage, serving, and volunteer workflow.
Classroom concept
Shows how one of the existing classroom rooms could be presented for preschool, tutoring, or small-group use.
Campus entrance concept
Shows a more institutional arrival condition for a Tufts-affiliated use, subject to signage, accessibility, site, and approval review.
Classroom blackboard concept
Shows a classroom finish strategy with organized storage, child-scale furniture, and simple visual structure.
Classroom programming concept
Shows another education-oriented layout for small groups, Sunday school, daycare, or nonprofit programming.
Fellowship hall alternate concept
Shows an alternate fellowship hall furniture plan with dining, lounge, and refreshment zones.
Parlor meeting concept
Shows a meeting-oriented configuration for board meetings, counseling, ministry teams, or nonprofit administration.
Nursery room concept
Shows a cleaner room presentation for nursery, family, education, or small-group programming.
Potential images are virtually staged concept visuals provided only to help buyers 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.
Assembly Spaces
Kitchens and Support
Classrooms, Offices and Circulation
Exterior and Site Access
Use Cases
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
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.
Soup Kitchen / Food Ministry Hub
Kitchen infrastructure is already in place and could support community outreach, service-learning, and food ministry programs subject to health, licensing, staffing, and operating requirements.
Event Space
The sanctuary and fellowship hall provide large-format rooms for lectures, ceremonies, performances, and university gatherings with relatively clear circulation and support-space adjacencies.
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
Campus Ministry / Interfaith Center
Turnkey spiritual and community space that fits university culture, chaplaincy, interfaith, and DEI-adjacent programming.
Student Wellness or Counseling Annex
Private, off-campus-feeling rooms could support counseling, wellness, case-management, or small-group services.
Arts Performance Space / Black Box Theater
High-ceiling sanctuary volume and assembly spaces could be studied for performance, rehearsal, lecture, or flexible black-box 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, nonprofit 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.
Market Context
Other acquisition paths to keep in view
The Tufts use cases are the focus of this brief, but the property may also be evaluated by groups studying adaptive reuse, mission-aligned ownership, or longer-term development optionality.
Multifamily or townhouse developer
Transit access, separate parcel control, and existing building scale may be relevant for a buyer studying longer-term residential or mixed-use options.
Parcel control matters
Entitlement review needed
Adaptive reuse or condo converter
Existing volume, assembly areas, and room structure may be relevant for a buyer comparing renovation value against full ground-up replacement.
Design-led evaluation
Shell value focus
Religious or mission-aligned organization
Sanctuary-scale space, weekday rooms, neighborhood presence, and parking may support continued religious, nonprofit, or community-service use.
Use-value driven
Board approval path
School, daycare, clinic, or nonprofit
Existing rooms, access, parking, and community familiarity may support a buyer studying school, childcare, clinic, or nonprofit operating use.
Needs parking certainty
Use approvals matter
Market Evidence
Comparable signals buyers should review
These examples frame the relevant value drivers: institutional building utility, parcel scale, and redevelopment outcomes for buyers studying reuse or development paths.
Adaptive reuse signal
150-156 Summer St, Medford
- Acquisition
- $1,200,000
- Exit value
- $4,000,000 total
- Use case
- Condo conversion
Relevant to buyers considering whether existing building volume and shell value can support a higher-yield residential conversion strategy.
101 Winthrop Development Reference
A nearby single-family development playbook
28 Chester Ave is useful for understanding 101 Winthrop as a standalone parcel: similar neighborhood context, similar lot constraints, and a clear acquisition-to-exit development pattern.
Zoning Analysis
100 Winthrop St - Zoning change outlook
Upside > DownsideCurrent zoning still controls. The upside case is that Medford's ongoing zoning work, Tufts/Boston Avenue planning, and transit-oriented housing pressure make this a site worth tracking closely, not a site to price as though future reform is already adopted.
Current useReligious / institutional
Lot size14,874 sq ft
Zoning trajectoryPotential upside
Upside drivers if zoning changes advance
- Transit and campus context: Medford/Tufts Green Line access and Tufts proximity support a stronger density and reuse argument than a typical neighborhood lot.
- Large institutional parcel: the 14,874 sq ft main parcel is larger than many nearby residential lots, giving buyers more ways to study coverage, circulation, and reuse.
- Recognized conversion pathway: religious and institutional properties often attract residential, nonprofit, education, and community-use conversion analysis in supply-constrained markets.
- Separate parking parcel: 101 Winthrop can support interim operations while a buyer studies whether future zoning creates a higher-value second-parcel strategy.
Downside risks if zoning changes advance
- Current rules remain the base case: no buyer should assign full value to unadopted zoning or assume reform will arrive on the acquisition timeline.
- Open-space and surface limits: any new dimensional or environmental standards could affect coverage, parking layout, and hardscape assumptions.
- Process risk: neighborhood review, special permits, site plan review, and building-code upgrades can materially affect timing and carrying cost.
- Use-specific diligence: religious, nonprofit, education, daycare, residential, and mixed-use buyers will each face a different approval and operating path.
Current status: Medford zoning work is active but unresolved. City
materials show ongoing zoning priorities around Medford Square, Tufts, and
Boston Avenue, while withdrawn proposals are not current law. Treat zoning
change as upside, not the reason the acquisition must work.
Commercial Lenders
Financing conversations to start early
For nonprofit, religious, educational, and community-use buyers, lender fit can be as important as rate. Start with institutions that understand commercial real estate, nonprofit cash flow, campaign timing, and mission-oriented occupancy.
Leader Bank
Massachusetts-based commercial lending team with named loan officers and commercial real estate expertise.
View lending teamRockland Trust
Dedicated nonprofit banking team offering tax-exempt and traditional financing, bridge financing, working capital lines, equipment loans, and acquisition or construction loans.
View nonprofit solutionsSalem Five
Nonprofit-focused commercial lending and banking, including term loans, lines of credit, tax-exempt bonds, deposits, cash management, and related advisory support.
View nonprofit lendingCass Commercial Bank
Commercial bank serving businesses, religious institutions, and nonprofits, with faith-based funding for building or updating facilities.
View Cass BankChristian Community Credit Union
Ministry banking platform with real estate loans, equipment loans, lines of credit, vehicle loans, share-secured loans, and term loans.
View CCCUChurch extension funds
For churches, a loan from the denomination or affiliated church extension fund may also be an option if that ministry offers lending. These lenders often understand congregation giving, campaigns, and church governance better than a general bank.
Example requirementsYour current banking institution
It is also worth checking with the bank or credit union where the organization already has accounts. An existing deposit, treasury, or lending relationship may help the lender understand cash flow, giving history, reserves, and operating patterns more quickly.
Start with your relationship manager
Pre-approval note: depending on the organization's proposed use,
balance sheet, cash flow, donor support, and financial strength, the required down
payment may be between 20-40%. Talk with loan officers about the specific situation
to understand what is needed to get pre-approved for a loan. Churches should also
expect lenders to ask for approximately three years of financial history.
Ownership Sustainability
Making ownership sustainable long-term
One other thought worth sharing: there are practical ways to make ownership more financially sustainable long-term. Wesley Church has been a strong example of this: sharing space with congregations that worship at different times, turning idle hours into both income and Kingdom partnership.
Partner churches
Share worship space
Share space with partner churches that need a home on weeknights or Sunday afternoons. Even one partner congregation can offset a meaningful portion of monthly carrying costs.
Weekday use
Preschool or after-school program
Partner with a licensed preschool, daycare, or after-school program to use the building during weekday hours, generating consistent rental income throughout the school year.
Recurring users
Nonprofit partners
Host established nonprofit partners such as tutoring centers, recovery groups, or community organizations that already budget for recurring meeting space.
Rental income
Tenant commitments can strengthen financing conversations
Something many church buyers do not realize: some lenders may count signed or projected rental agreements in loan review, which can improve the terms a buyer qualifies for. Lining up even one or two tenant commitments before closing can make the bank process smoother and strengthen the buyer's position.
Existing parsonage
Leverage housing assets carefully
If the church owns a property currently being used as a parsonage, that can sometimes be a helpful piece of the puzzle. Some churches borrow against it to supplement the down payment; others sell it and transition pastoral housing to a rent arrangement. Both approaches are common and can meaningfully reduce what the congregation needs to bring to closing.
Next Steps
What a serious buyer should confirm next
If the site solves the problem you are already trying to solve, the next step is not more browsing. It is focused diligence on the variables that determine whether your use, capital stack, and timing can work.
1
Confirm the parcel and zoning path
Verify lot dimensions, current zoning, permitted uses, parking requirements, and any special-permit path.
2
Confirm the building scope
Assess envelope, systems, accessibility, assembly occupancy, bathrooms, egress, and renovation scope.
3
Confirm the acquisition case
Model operating reuse, adaptive reuse, and redevelopment cases separately, then assign value to 101 Winthrop.
Pricing & Contact
Offered at $2,950,000
For qualified buyers evaluating ownership, reuse, or development 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