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Colantonio Wraps Up 86 Dummer Street Project

86 Dummer

86 Dummer St.

Brookline, MA – Construction Manager Colantonio Inc. recently completed 86 Dummer Street, 32 new units of affordable rental housing for the Brookline Housing Authority (BHA). The project is the largest such development in Brookline in over 35 years.

Owner’s project manager Pinck & Co. oversaw the project, which was designed by Tise Design Associates.

The energy-efficient, wood-frame building was built above a new, underground parking garage and forms a quadrangle with the existing Trustman Apartments. The new layout features an accessible courtyard that includes landscaped green space, play structures, and a basketball court. Low-income families, senior citizens, and people with disabilities recently moved into the spacious one-, two-, and three-bedroom units, many with a lovely view of the Boston skyline.

Colantonio’s craftsmen also performed the carpentry and millwork, which helped control the cost and quality of the work.

“This was the perfect project to use the CM at Risk delivery method,” said chairman and CEO, Fran Colantonio. “We self-performed the sitework, so we added real value during the preconstruction phase addressing the site’s poor soil conditions and elevation issues. And it was a pleasure to work with the BHA again.” Colantonio renovated all 86 units of the existing Trustman Apartments, while they were occupied, in 2012.