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Winning Farm Winning Farm, formerly a 110-acre parcel of farmland spanning Winchester, Woburn, and Lexington, is the site of a future senior housing complex set within conservation land. The complex is being built by the Salter Healthcare Group. The town purchased the property from Winning Home, Inc., which had been using the property since 1902 for youth services such as camping and horseback riding. In 1995, the Board of Winning Home, Inc., decided that the purposes of the trust were no longer being served and sold the property to each of the three towns. Click here for more information 620 Washington Street Winchester Hospital, whose presence on Highland Avenue dates back to 1917, has established a new health-care site at 620 Washington St. with the aim of dedicating the Highland Avenue facility to emergency and inpatient care and moving outpatient facilities to the new site. The hospital is now operating an oncology center at 620 Washington St and is proposing to build an ambulatory-care center there. The property contains about 11 acres. The two-acre section south of the Aberjona River is to become conservation land. The remaining nine acres is to have the oncology center, an ambulatory care center, and a parking garage. The plan also includes a section of the future tri-community bikeway. Click here for more information Wright - Locke Farm Purchased by the town in 2007, the former Wright-Locke-Hamilton Farm is the last working farm in Winchester. Its current and sole crop is organic raspberries. Located off Ridge Street and Edward Drive, the farm abuts conservation parcels in Winchester and Lexington and contains about 20 acres. The town is selling part of the farm to Abbott Real Estate Development for residential development. The portion remaining in town ownership is under the care of the Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy, whose first board of directors was appointed in 2008. Click here for more information
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