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 Preservation of affordable housing in a
gentrifying neighborhood and creation of
a community food pantry
At BCC, we know it is important to remember the past as we take strides towards
building strong communities for the future. That’s why we partnered with
Harborlight Community Partners to preserve Firehouse
Place, a historic building in a gentrifying neighborhood in
“We see Firehouse
Hamilton, MA . A loan from BCLF helped preserve
Place as a lynchpin
affordable housing units and- to the delight of the
demonstrate to the
community- a food pantry that serves the entire town. In
North Shore that they
financing the Firehouse Place project, BCC helped to build
can create contextually
the capacity of a local nonprofit developer, with the
sensitive, properly
confidence that Harborlight Community Developers
scaled affordable
expand their sphere of influence in other projects like
housing.”
Firehouse Place. Andrew DeFranza, the executive director
of Harborlight, says of the project, “We see Firehouse Place as a lynchpin to
demonstrate to the North Shore that they can create contextually sensitive,
properly scaled affordable housing that is driven by the community.”