After several attempts at making an affordable senior housing project at the Westfield property appear attractive to developers, the project has received no bites, and the future of the project is grim.

In presenting a report of the Westfield Study Committee to Town Meeting voters on Monday, Selectmen Chair Steve Holmes said that in hearing from developers, among the reasons that developers were uninterested in the project was "the political climate" in Wareham, and that money was not available for such a project.

Holmes said the Selectmen plan to continue to explore affordable housing projects, and will report to Town Meeting in the spring.

Whether there will ever be a project at the 77-acre Westfield site, located off of Charlotte Furnace Road in West Wareham, is anybody's guess. The proposal has been a topic of heated debate for years.

In four appearances before Town Meeting, voters argued that Wareham's existing senior housing units at Agawam Village should be rehabbed, and perhaps more units should be built at that location. Others worried about the number of affordable units and about what would become of the athletic fields at the property.

Finally, in its fifth appearance before voters in November, 2010, a proposal was approved with stipulations that not more than one-third of the property be used for senior housing, that all units be affordable and restricted to seniors, and that any developer hired to complete the project be required to maintain the property's athletic fields.

But the Westfield Study Committee's numerous attempts to come up with a project on which developers would want to bid — and even attempts of the committee to determine exactly what developers wanted — were unsuccessful.