Almost half the population rents - probably also true for Watertown!

That would probably be easiest. 

I have found a 5plex about 2 and a half hours away from me.

That is the easiest solution.

I have an exceptional strip of land on Federal Highway with an older strip plaza on it.It has one of the biggest frontages on Federal, just south of Commercial, and I'm looking to redevelop it into fewer, key tenant units.The closest Starbucks is about half a mile north and it shares a tiny unit with Chipotle with a horribly laid out drive-thru.I feel it's worth exploring the idea of building them a stand alone unit on my land, along with a few other headline tenants.Can anyone point me in the direction of a local tenant rep that dealt with them?

Should be set to close within a month and a half.

The easiest is to take a master suite and add a kitchenette, but I guess you could potentially do a larger project. 

There is currently a legal challenge to this so it is possible that this policy will be invalidated sometime between now and when all government restrictions are removed.As for your question, the easiest answer is to take possession of the property vacant. 

Only 1/2 of the property was finished space, the other half was a complete shell.

So I currently plan on doing my own redneck baffle for Bedroom 1, reducing the air down to no more than half of what it is now, while also cutting the holes larger in Bedroom 2 (which actually isn't either hot or cold right now) and Bedroom 3 (which is running hot, being on the southwest corner).