Mark T. Vaughan

Burlington Office
617-880-3457
617-692-3457 fax
mvaughan@riemerlaw.com

Mark is experienced in all aspects of real estate transactions, with emphasis on real estate development, financing, conveyancing, and leasing. He also focuses on land use and the environmental permit process for office buildings, office parks, retail complexes, hotels, senior assisted living housing, and multi-family housing. He has extensive experience with local zoning and subdivision matters, wetlands permitting, state environmental permitting, MEPA, laws regulating access to state highways and municipal sewer and water systems, as well as laws pertaining to affordable housing and historic preservation.

Before becoming an attorney, Mark worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Land Use Planner in the Executive Office of Transportation and Construction. He worked closely with various state transportation agencies to address the effect on transportation of development projects being reviewed under the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Act.

Mark is a former member of the Stoneham Board of Selectmen and served as chairman in 1993 and 1994. In that capacity, he was active in the Massachusetts Municipal Association and was a member of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Advisory Board. In addition, Mark is a former member of the Stoneham Conservation Commission.

Representative Transactions

  • Worked with a chain of movie theaters in leasing and acquiring sites throughout the country
  • Represented a national department store chain in connection with the redevelopment and permit process for sites in Woburn and Burlington, Massachusetts
  • Counsel for a major computer company in the acquisition and permitting of its corporate campus in Burlington, Massachusetts
  • Counsel for a day-care center chain in the development and permitting of various properties in Greater Boston
  • Worked with a variety of housing developers in connection with the state's comprehensive permit statute, including obtaining state and local approvals for apartment and condominium developments throughout Greater Boston
  • Represented a developer in the acquisition, development and permitting of an approximately 1 million square foot office park in Woburn, Massachusetts, including negotiations with the state with respect to a new interchange on Interstate 93
  • Represented a developer in the acquisition, permitting and redevelopment of an abandoned furniture showroom in Stoneham Square into a mixed use development consisting of luxury residences and retail/office space

In The News

  • How zoning flexibility could help local economy - One component of municipal revenue that is not subject to the cap imposed by Proposition 2 1/2 is tax revenue raised from new real estate development. In a recent Boston Globe Op-Ed, Mark Vaughan writes that while many community officials will be focusing on cutbacks over the coming months and how to make ends meet, an opportunity exists for municipalities to think creatively about future economic growth.
    The Boston Globe, February 14, 2009
  • Permitting moves at the "speed of business" - Mark Vaughan, who represented Nordblom Company and Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc. in connection with the Northwest Park redevelopment, was recently part of a story in The Boston Globe discussing the project and the significance of the recent designation of the Northwest Park site as a "growth district" by the Governor Patrick administration.
    The Boston Globe, November 27, 2008
  • Real estate development in Massachusetts - Mark Vaughan was recently featured on New England Cable News discussing how the economy, including the credit crisis, has affected commercial real estate across the Commonwealth.
    New England Cable News, October 22, 2008
  • Mark Vaughan on IBM's new software campus - Mark Vaughan discusses IBM's new software campus in Littleton and Westford, MA.
    New England Cable News, August 14, 2007
Affiliations
Board of Corporators for Winchester Hospital
Board of Overseers for Zoo New England
International Council of Shopping Centers
Massachusetts Bar Association
National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts

Admissions
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1995
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1996

Education
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1995
Tufts University, B.A. cum laude, 1987