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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.”