LONG-VACANT, CONTAMINATED LELAND STREET PROPERTIES TRANSFER TO ZAMMUTO-LINKED COMPANIES

A collection of long-vacant properties associated with the former General Chemical site on Leland Street changed hands Wednesday in what appears to be a coordinated acquisition involving companies connected to developer Charles Zammuto.

The properties include 119 and 125 Leland Street, where abandoned homes stood deteriorating for decades before they were recently demolished, as well as 91A and 91B Leland Street, where other boarded and dilapidated houses remain or previously stood.

The land has long been identified in real estate listings as contaminated. FU has not reviewed any recent environmental documentation establishing that the properties have been fully remediated, so their present environmental condition remains unclear.

Deeds recorded Wednesday morning show 119 and 125 Leland Street were each transferred for a stated consideration of $125,000.

At 119 Leland Street, GCC Realty Corp transferred the property to 56 Park St LLC.

At 125 Leland Street, Trinity General Corp transferred the property to the same buyer.

The combined stated purchase price for those two properties was therefore $250,000.

The buyer, 56 Park St LLC, is managed by Yoonsik Chung. The company was previously associated with the commercial building at 56 Park Street in Downtown Framingham.

Charles Zammuto was added to the company’s corporate filings on May 28, 2026, as a corporate signatory and as a person authorized to execute documents involving real estate. He was not identified as a manager, and the public corporate records do not disclose the company’s underlying members or ownership percentages.

The timing is notable because 56 Park St LLC sold its namesake Downtown Framingham building for $700,000 on July 20—just over a week before purchasing the Leland Street properties.

That Park Street sale transferred the building to 56 Office Park LLC, a recently formed company managed by Everett mortgage broker Marcio De Jesus. The deed on that transaction was signed for the seller by Chung.

Two additional Leland Street properties were transferred earlier Wednesday morning.

General Chemical Corp conveyed 91A and 91B Leland Street to 91 A&B Leland Street LLC. Each deed reports nominal consideration of $1.

A $1 consideration listed on a deed does not necessarily mean the property was literally purchased for only one dollar. Nominal consideration is frequently used when the full financial arrangement is not stated in the recorded instrument, including transfers involving related companies or other agreements.

The receiving company was organized in October 2025. Its manager is Deborah Zammuto. Charles Zammuto and Waldir DaCosta are identified as corporate signatories and as people authorized to execute real estate documents for the company.

The corporation’s records are maintained at 375 Main Street in Everett, while Deborah and Charles Zammuto are listed at the same Newton address.

Together, Wednesday’s recordings place four properties within the former General Chemical area under two companies with documented connections to Zammuto.

No mortgages associated with the purchases appeared among the records reviewed by FU Wednesday afternoon. That may indicate the transactions were completed without conventional purchase financing, although same-day filings can appear later and the deeds were still marked as being in workflow when reviewed.

Financing these properties could also be complicated by their environmental history and physical condition.

For years, real estate listings openly warned potential buyers about both issues.

One listing described a house as “dilapidated” and suitable only for demolition or complete rehabilitation. It stated that the land was considered contaminated, instructed buyers to perform their own due diligence and said the property was being offered as part of a larger package encompassing addresses between 91 and 133 Leland Street.

Other listings contained essentially the same warnings:

“Buyer responsible for their own due-diligence.”

“The land is considered to be contaminated.”

“Being sold as-is, where-is.”

Despite multiple attempts, the properties remained unsold for years.

The former house at 125 Leland Street was listed for $139,900 in 2018 before the listing was removed. It returned to the market for $150,000 in January 2021, but that listing was also removed several months later.

The property had previously sold for $65,000 in 1997.

The house at 119 Leland Street was listed for $60,000 in August 2018 before being removed from the market the following month. Public records show a reported $292,000 transaction in 2011, although the later listing price and the property’s condition suggest that transaction may require additional examination to understand its context fully.

For decades, the deteriorating houses served as some of the most visible reminders of the pollution and abandonment associated with the former General Chemical operation. Vegetation overtook portions of the lots, windows were boarded and the buildings continued to deteriorate until demolition work finally removed some of them.

The four transfers do not reveal what is planned for the properties.

They could represent land consolidation ahead of environmental work, redevelopment or another transfer involving a larger group of parcels. Any substantial construction would likely require environmental review, permitting and additional public filings.

For now, the most significant development is simply that a collection of contaminated and nearly unsellable properties—properties that sat abandoned through multiple real estate cycles—has finally changed hands.

And the people connected to the purchasing companies are already active in Framingham development.

FU will be watching for environmental filings, demolition activity, permit applications and any proposal explaining what comes next for this long-neglected section of Leland Street.

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