Alevizos Family Plans $1.5 Million Hawes Brook Medical Center on Walpole Street-November 11, 1977

20-Suite French Colonial Medical Complex Planned Adjacent to King’s Norwood Plaza to Complement Norwood Hospital Expansion

NORWOOD — The Alevizos family has announced plans to construct a state-of-the-art, 20-suite medical office building on a two-acre parcel along Walpole Street, situated directly adjacent to their King’s Norwood Plaza shopping center.

The $1.5 million project—dubbed the Hawes Brook Medical Center—will be developed by Equity Trust Associates of Norwood, with Peter J. Alevizos serving as director of development alongside his father and business partner, John P. Alevizos. The roughly L-shaped, two-story French Colonial structure will span 25,020 square feet on bank-owned land overlooking Mill Pond and Hawes Brook. Because the site is zoned for manufacturing, a medical office building is fully permitted, bypassing the special permit hurdles that previously derailed a proposed shopping center on the land.

Comprehensive Medical Specialties and Joint Venture Financing

The development team is organizing the project as a joint venture between Equity Trust Associates and up to 12 limited partners, primarily medical specialists currently practicing in Norwood or affiliated with Norwood Hospital.

The new facility is designed to house a full spectrum of medical services:

• Medical Disciplines: Internal medicine, dermatology, ophthalmology, neurology, surgery, radiology, psychiatry, and a diagnostic laboratory and pharmacy.
• Strategic Alignment: John P. Alevizos noted that the project was intentionally coordinated to support Norwood Hospital’s expansion goals, adding that he previously abandoned a potential site on East Hoyle Street when hospital officials expressed a need for that land for parking.
• Independent of Cenacle Proposal: The developers emphasized that the project is entirely independent of a rejected June town meeting proposal to rezone residential land on Walpole Street for a medical condominium complex.

Site Access, Traffic Signals, and Architectural Design

Designed by principal architect R.C. Southwick Associates of Duxbury, the facility will feature modern adaptations of classical architectural elements, including a porticoed main entrance facing the brook, second-floor arched windows, a pitched roof, two elevators, wheelchair ramps, and parking for over 100 vehicles.

Access to the medical center will be anchored by infrastructure improvements:

• Traffic Coordination: Construction timing is contingent upon state approval for new traffic signals on Walpole Street between Wilson and Endicott streets. The Alevizos team has offered to fully finance the traffic lights and roadway improvements.
• Interconnectivity: In addition to a secondary access point off Endicott Street, a stone bridge will be constructed across Hawes Brook to seamlessly link the medical building parking lot with the neighboring King’s Norwood Plaza shopping center.

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