Housing Headlines

WORCESTER --- Developer Allen Fletcher's plan to bring a $21.3 million mixed-use development with 48 market-rate apartments to Kelley Square received a significant boost when the city's economic development committee granted it a 10-year tax break that could save the developer over $800,000.

ROXBURY --- The massive transformation of the former Bartlett Street MBTA bus yard into 194 apartments and 129 condos kicked off recently with a groundbreaking on the first phase, which will feature 60 mixed-income apartments. The site is being developed by the nonprofit Nuesta Comunidad in partnership with Windale Developers.

HAVERHILL --- The Baker Administration's recent announcement of $100 million in housing awards came as good news for the City of Haverhill, as the city's plans to redevelop the former Gerson Furniture Building into 44 affordable apartments for veterans and their families moved once step closer to reality.

BOSTON --- In the Boston Housing Authority's ongoing effort to work with developers to fix public housing by allowing the addition of new units on site, three housing developers have been picked to renovate the BHA's senior housing building on Amory Street in Jamaica Plain while also adding new apartments to the six-acre site. Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp., Urban Edge and The Community Builders will team up to renovate the 199 senior units and add 353 mixed-income apartments at a total cost of $150 million.

JAMAICA PLAIN --- Three developers who have dubbed themselves Centre Street Partners were the lone bidders to redevelop the Mildred C. Hailey public housing complex, formerly known as Bromley-Heath. The developers - Urban Edge, Jamaica Plain NDC and The Comumunity Builders - plan to replace 232 existing affordable apartments and add 393 market-rate units in three new buildings.

BOSTON --- In its ongoing effort to partner with private developers to upgrade its aging public housing, the Boston Housing Authority has selected WinnCompanies to replace 1,016 public housing units at South Boston's McCormack complex with 3,139 mixed-income units.