Seven years ago, homebuilders Frank Meehan and Kathy Santomero-Meehan learned about a rare opportunity — the chance to build 47 houses on 35 acres in Rocky Point, where a subdivision had already received town approval.

But it emerged at a dire moment for the couple. A doctor told Santomero-Meehan months earlier that her breast cancer had returned and spread to her liver — and that she might have just three weeks to live.

She didn't give the potential project much thought at the time.

"Good luck, Frank," she recalled telling him. "Because it was a little out of our league."

He saw it differently. Just as he had planned vacations to Cuba and Costa Rica to give them something to look forward to despite her diagnosis, Frank Meehan viewed the Rocky Point development as a long-term comm

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