Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Some neighbors fear adding 84 units of housing to the area will have negative impacts.
As neighbors and some Somerville aldermen voiced concerns about parking and traffic at a proposed apartment complex in Union Square, developers of the project are in discussions with city planners regarding an historically significant building at the site. The developers, a partnership between the non-profit Somerville Community Corporation and Cathartes Private Investments, presented updated plans for the apartment complex Monday night at a neighborhood meeting held at the Argenziano School. The proposal call for two buildings. One, planned for 181 Washington St., the site of the former Boys & Girls Club, would be financed by the Somerville Community Corporation, which builds affordable housing, using low-income tax credits. It would …
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Monday, April 8, 2013
At a Monday evening meeting, the Somerville Community Corporation and Cathartes Private Investments will reveal more details about their Union Square mixed-income housing proposal.
The Union Square neighborhood on Monday will learn more about a mixed-income housing development that's proposed in the eastern part of the square. The project, representing a partnership between the Somerville Community Corporation and Cathartes Private Investments, has evolved since the spring of 2012, when an earlier proposal caused bitter opposition from some in the neighborhood. The original plan, proposed by the Somerville Community Corporation alone, called for the construction of a 40-unit affordable housing apartment complex at the 181 Washington St. site of the former Boys & Girls Club. In February of this year, the non-profit group announced its partnership with Cathartes, and the new plan includes an adjoining 44-unit market …
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Previously a 40-apartment affordable housing project, a proposed housing development in Union Square now includes a market-rate 44-unit apartment building.
A proposed affordable housing project in Union Square that drew bitter opposition from some in the neighborhood has morphed into something different. The Somerville Community Corporation, the non-profit group behind the affordable housing project, has teamed up with Cathartes Private Investments, a real estate developer, to propose a new two-building project that includes both affordable and market-rate apartments. The new project would include the already-proposed 40-unit affordable housing complex at 181 Washington, the site of the former Boys & Girls Club. It would be built alongside a five-story, 44-unit market-rate apartment complex at 197 Washington St., the site of Cota Struzziero McKenna Funeral Home. Both buildings would have …
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Somerville Community Corporation showed off its newest project at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.
At a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Wednesday, the Somerville Community Corporation inaugurated its newest building, at 75 Cross St. in East Somerville. The building contains eight affordable apartments that will be home to formerly homeless households, some of them families. People will begin moving in as early as Nov. 1, according to Danny LeBlanc, CEO of the Somerville Community Corporation. The $2.7 million project will provide project-based Section 8 affordable housing to tenants. The Somerville Community Corporation bought the property from a developer who intended to build condos on the site but ran into financial difficulties, LeBlanc said. The foundation was already built, so the building went up quickly, he said. "Eight families …
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Union Square Rising, a group that opposes an affordable housing proposal in Union Square, says there's a conflict of interest with a firm hired by the city to serve as mediators.
Union Square Rising, a group that opposes an affordable housing development proposed in Union Square, has decided to pull out of city-sponsored mediation that was intended to soothe bitter tensions connected to the proposal. Zac Zasloff, a leader of Union Square Rising, said in an email and in speaking with Somerville Patch the group's decision to pull out stems from a perceived conflict of interest with the firm hired to conduct the mediation, Consensus Building Institute, or CBI, out of Cambridge. The perceived conflict of interest arises from information, first published in the Somerville Journal, that one of CBI's managing directors, David Fairman, worked in 1989 for the Somerville Community Corporation, the non-profit group planning …
Monday, April 30, 2012
If opponents of the project are "against affordable housing no matter what, they should simply admit they don’t want poor people in the neighborhood," writes Max Chalkin in Boston.com's "Next Generation Blog."
A blog post on Boston.com titled, "Not in my backyard? Affordable housing proposal ignites debate in Union Square," speaks in favor of an affordable housing proposal at the former Boys & Girls Club building in Union Square. When the Somerville Community Corporation, which is proposing the 40-unit affordable housing development, made a presentation in March, it led to a wider debate about housing, class and change in Somerville (see articles below). In the Boston.com post, Max Chalkin, a recent Tufts University graduate, writes that the Somerville Community Corportation "makes a clear, convincing case for the need for affordable housing in Somerville." Chalkin questions arguments made by Union Square Rising, a group formed by neighbors who …
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The Somerville Community Corporation received $3.9 million in subsidies and tax credits to build 39 affordable housing units in the city.
The Somerville Community Corporation, an organization that develops affordable housing, among other things, has received about $2.3 million ($2,259,000) in subsidies from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development for the construction of Saint Polycarp Village Phase III, according to an announcement from the governor's office. In addition, the Saint Polycarp Village Phase III project will receive $619,550 in federal low-income housing tax credits, the announcement says. Located along Mystic Avenue, Saint Polycarp Village Phase III will create 31 new affordable housing units, and five of those will be reserved for extremely low-income households, according to the announcement. The Somerville Community Corporation also…
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Jason
3:29 pm on Saturday, April 13, 2013
So true. more ›