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Lowell Community Health Center provides high quality, culturally competent, affordable health services to individuals and families who are medically underserved, uninsured, and low-income. With this loan, the Health Center provides new dental and vision services to their patients. It also increased adult health services and consolidated administrative offices into one locale. The health center serves more than 25,000 patients, annually.
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Financing supported the preservation of and the increase in affordable units at this 204-unit, mixed-income rental development, in Amherst.
Manufactured home community residents own their homes, but rent the land they occupy, exposing them to rising rents and displacement when land is sold. With ROC USA support, residents of the Wayside Mobile Home Community organized to purchase the community’s land from its owners. This financing preserved affordability for more than 60 homeowners.
44 Gerrish Avenue was an integral part of Chelsea’s Box District revitalization. For decades, an abandoned industrial building covered most of the site. The redevelopment created 46 units, with 42 newly built using modular construction, and 4 units in the existing brick building.
Founded in 1974, the Health Center improves the health and well-being of the communities it serves by providing quality, comprehensive, coordinated care. Its patients are 94% low-income, 80% racial and ethnic minorities, and 53% require translation. In 2012, the Health Center was at its capacity, serving 12,000 patients annually. Its new, expanded Health Center (48,000 SF) increased patient visit capacity and improved patient care.
The redevelopment of Edmands House rehabilitated all of its 190 units and preserved the long-term affordability of 171 of the 190 units. Ninety-eight of the units are restricted to households earning no more than 30% of area median income, 34 at or below 60% of area median income, 39 at or below 80%, and 19 are unrestricted.
WBDC purchased the vacated Telegram & Gazette buildings for the purpose of revitalizing a key property in Worcester’s Central Business District. Financing supported the renovation of this historic property to house Quinsigamond Community College’s Allied Health and Training and Education Center.
This loan provided for the acquisition of two parcels of land totaling 1.23 acres on North Main Street in Brockton, and the development of the first phase of a two-phase project. Phase 1, known as Montello Welcome Home, created 22 new housing units for high priority families and individuals experiencing homelessness, 10 veterans, 10 individuals and 2 families.
Parcel 24 was a 1.5-acre vacant site in Boston’s Chinatown across from The Rose Kennedy Greenway. Project sponsors constructed a 10-story, 95-unit affordable housing development with 4,800 SF of first floor commercial space.
Smith House is a twelve-story, high-rise, elderly-housing building with 100% of the 132 one-bedroom units occupied by low and moderate-income households. This loan repaid existing debt and financed preventative maintenance while Madison Park prepared its plan to undertake a comprehensive renovation of the 40+ year-old building, extending its life as an affordable elderly housing development.
Dating back to the 1870s, 35-37 Medford Street holds historic significance for its role in Somerville’s meatpacking industry. The property originally served as horse stables and office space for a meatpacking company. It is now fully converted to 50,000 SF of office space. Financing allowed btcRE to acquire and upgrade the building to increase tenant occupancy.
