Dover, NH

In Dover, the City is using 79-E to incentivize the rehabilitation of a vacant courthouse into new housing. The courthouse itself will be renovated, and a new four-story structure will be built there. The City negotiated for 20% of housing units to be deed-restricted Affordable Housing for low-income residents.
  • Fosters Daily Democrat, “Chinburg's old Dover courthouse housing project: What's new, what's next” (February 25, 2021).
Dover’s vacant Strafford County courthouse in 2021 (above) and a rendering of the 79-E enabled redevelopment (below). (Images via Foster’s Daily Democrat)