A long-quiet stretch of Kingston real estate may be headed for a serious plot twist. A Boston real estate firm has snapped up the vacant Sacred Heart High School campus and is now weighing a plan to turn the South Shore property into housing.
The campus and surrounding land have mostly sat unused since the high school shut down in 2020, after the Sisters of Divine Providence put the property on the market. The sale puts a sizable, centrally located site back in play near Colony Place and a cluster of other recent South Shore developments.
As reported by Boston Business Journal, Boston-based A.W. Perry closed on the property this spring and is considering a residential reuse of the campus. Public transaction records show the deal covered about 128 acres and, according to market data cited by Traded, the site sold for roughly $3.4 million.
What the developer bought
The acquisition includes the roughly 123,000-square-foot former Sacred Heart High School building along with large undeveloped tracts, including land referenced in records as 67 Parting Ways Road. The seller was identified as the Sisters of Divine Providence, and the high school program ended operations in 2020, according to deed research and local history reviewed by Bisnow and the school's own account of its history on Sacred Heart Kingston.
What reuse might look like
Bisnow notes that the property is currently zoned for single-family homes with a two-acre minimum. A.W. Perry has indicated to local outlets that it may look at a cluster-style layout that fits within those limits while allowing more homes than a conventional subdivision.
The company has a South Shore regional office and lists several area holdings on its own site at A.W. Perry, signaling that this is not a one-off foray but part of a broader play in the market. Nearby, large projects have already nudged the development tempo along the corridor, including a 300-unit AvalonBay complex at Colony Place, as detailed by the Plymouth Independent.
Next steps for the site
For now, A.W. Perry is describing its housing interest as exploratory, with no formal plans or designs on the table. Any proposal will have to run the local gauntlet of town approvals and public hearings in Kingston, and the size and zoning history of the parcel suggest the reviews will be anything but perfunctory.
Reporting so far indicates the sale itself is a done deal, but what comes next remains very much in draft form. Local officials and residents will not see the specifics until the developer files formal plans, according to Boston Business Journal.
