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

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 current condition
100 Winthrop St - current condition
100 Winthrop St church and community renovation concept
100 Winthrop St - church / community renovation concept
100 Winthrop St condo development concept
100 Winthrop St - condo development concept
100 Winthrop St subdivided lot development concept
100 Winthrop St - subdivided lot development concept
101 Winthrop St current parking lot condition
101 Winthrop St - current condition parking lot
101 Winthrop St single-family development concept
101 Winthrop St - single-family development concept

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.

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.

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.

Primary site 100 & 101 Winthrop St

Adjacent building and parking parcels in Medford Hillside, roughly 0.53 acres combined.

Education anchor Tufts University

Campus edge demand driver for housing, nonprofit, education, and community-serving uses.

Transit access Medford/Tufts Green Line

Approximately 0.4 miles from the site, supporting car-light staff, visitors, tenants, and residents.

Regional reach I-93, Cambridge, Boston

Highway and urban-core access broaden the buyer universe beyond a neighborhood-only use case.

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.

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 building

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 parcel

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.

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.

100 Winthrop St upstairs floor plan
Upstairs floor plan - sanctuary, auditorium, parlor, offices, kitchen, and exits
100 Winthrop St downstairs floor plan
Downstairs floor plan - fellowship hall, cafe, kitchen, classrooms, library, and exits

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.

Sanctuary center aisle with pews and raised worship area
Sanctuary - center aisle, pew seating, raised platform, and high ceiling volume
Current Current sanctuary center aisle
Potential Virtually staged interfaith and wellness center concept

Interfaith and wellness center concept

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

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

Theater / event hall concept

Shows a performance-oriented configuration for lectures, ceremonies, rehearsal, and black-box theater use.

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

Lecture and performance seating concept

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

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 ministry, service-learning, and recurring community meal programs.

Current Current lower-level fellowship hall
Potential Virtually staged student housing overflow concept

Student housing overflow concept

Shows an overnight support configuration with sleeping capacity, shared table space, and kitchenette-style amenity.

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 exterior driveway and rear access
Potential Virtually staged campus entrance concept

Campus entrance concept

Shows a more institutional arrival condition for a Tufts-affiliated use, subject to signage, accessibility, site, and approval review.

Current Current classroom with blackboard
Potential Virtually staged classroom blackboard concept

Classroom blackboard concept

Shows a classroom finish strategy with organized storage, child-scale furniture, and simple visual structure.

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

Classroom programming concept

Shows another education-oriented layout for small groups, Sunday school, daycare, or nonprofit programming.

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

Fellowship hall alternate concept

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

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

Parlor meeting concept

Shows a meeting-oriented configuration for board meetings, counseling, ministry teams, or nonprofit administration.

Current Current parlor and nursery room area
Potential Virtually staged nursery room concept

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.

Sanctuary side view with pew seating
Sanctuary - side view
Auditorium with open floor, stage, and vaulted ceiling
Auditorium - open floor and stage
Auditorium stage and hardwood floor
Auditorium - stage end
Auditorium rear view showing wood ceiling and open floor
Auditorium - rear view
Auditorium open floor from stage side
Auditorium - flexible open area
Lower-level fellowship hall with tables and checkered floor
Fellowship hall - lower level
Commercial-style kitchen prep area with sinks, shelving, and stainless work table
Kitchen - prep and wash area
Commercial-style kitchen with service counters and storage
Kitchen - service area
Lower-level corridor with restroom entries
Lower-level restroom corridor
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 Sunday school room
Classroom corridor
Classroom with chalkboard and materials
Classroom
Classroom with orange chairs and activity table
Classroom
Classroom with blackboard and books
Classroom
Parlor or children's area with sofas, shelving, and tall windows
Nursery room
Open classroom with sink and materials
Classroom
Classroom with sink, windows, and activity tables
Classroom
Exterior side entry and church sign
Side entry and exterior access
Exterior driveway and rear access area
Driveway and rear access

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

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.

Gathering space

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.

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

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.

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.

Land and 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
Envelope and character

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
Mission and stewardship

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
Community infrastructure

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

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.

150 Summer St redevelopment comparable
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.

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.

28 Chester Ave exit sale
28 Chester Ave - completed new construction exit
28 Chester Ave acquisition history
Acquisition history and resale timeline
28 Chester Ave parcel detail
0.20 acre Single Family 2 reference parcel
101 Winthrop parcel detail
101 Winthrop St parcel context

100 Winthrop St - Zoning change outlook

Upside > Downside

Current 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.

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.

Local commercial lending

Leader Bank

Massachusetts-based commercial lending team with named loan officers and commercial real estate expertise.

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Nonprofit banking

Rockland Trust

Dedicated nonprofit banking team offering tax-exempt and traditional financing, bridge financing, working capital lines, equipment loans, and acquisition or construction loans.

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Nonprofit solutions

Salem Five

Nonprofit-focused commercial lending and banking, including term loans, lines of credit, tax-exempt bonds, deposits, cash management, and related advisory support.

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Faith-based and nonprofit

Cass Commercial Bank

Commercial bank serving businesses, religious institutions, and nonprofits, with faith-based funding for building or updating facilities.

View Cass Bank
Ministry lending

Christian Community Credit Union

Ministry banking platform with real estate loans, equipment loans, lines of credit, vehicle loans, share-secured loans, and term loans.

View CCCU
Denominational option

Church 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 requirements
Existing relationship

Your 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.

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.

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.

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