W/S Development Associates LLC has developed a retail shopping center on approximately 73.5 acres of undeveloped and industrially-zoned land at the interchange of Route 140 North and Interstate 495 in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

The Project consists of a community-style open air shopping center with 395,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space building area, associated access driveways, parking areas, and pertinent infrastructure.

Significant portions of the Project Site had been previously disturbed as the result of a gravel mining operation and agricultural uses. The wetland resources on the Project Site consist of a man-made pond and various vegetated wetland areas adjacent to intermittent stream channels. Other features, such as a man-made drainage ditch associated with past gravel mining operations and an overhead electrical transmission line, exist on the Site.

ESS Group, Inc. was selected by W/S Development Associates LLC to conduct comprehensive land development services, civil/site engineering, regulatory permitting, surveying, air quality, coordination of sub-consultants, and construction administration.

ESS performed an extensive storm water analysis to understand existing site hydrology and mitigate potential stormwater related impacts to the on-site and adjacent wetland resource areas. The project employs a number of structural and non-structural BMP’s (i.e. water quality devices, vegetated basins, oil/water separators, and subsurface infiltration systems) to ensure potential stormwater impacts from the project site are fully mitigated.

The Project was designed to meet all applicable federal, state, and local standards. Due to the occurrence of wetlands on the Site, the final construction documents prepared by ESS evolve around the wetland configuration.