Could Opus Newton be a national model for middle-income senior housing?

Could Opus Newton be a national model for middle-income senior housing?

Nancy Dale and her longtime partner, Marybeth Noonan, used to admire a large field in southwestern Newton after they’d get out of church every Sunday. Today, they live there. That field is now a building—Opus Newton—new home to a bunch of middle-income seniors and the model for something that may go national. “Marybeth and I are the formerly forgotten middle, and we are now home,” Dale said to a packed courtyard under a big white tent outside th…