Tag: rehabilitation
Eliot Innovation School Gets Award
Boston – Finegold Alexander Architects announced that the Eliot Innovation School at 39 North Bennet St. in Boston’s North End was awarded Preservation Massachusetts’ prestigious 2019 Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award. Finegold Alexander Architects served as the design architect for Boston Public Schools and the city’s Public Facilities department. The existing building at 39 […]
2019 Preservation Award Recipients
Boston – Preservation Massachusetts recently introduced its 2019 recipients of the Tsongas, Menino, Eliot, Kuehn and Olmsted Awards. Paul & Niki Tsongas Award, recognizing people and projects that have displayed the highest level of commitment to historic preservation in the Commonwealth: The Longfellow Bridge, Boston/Cambridge Myles Standish Hall & Annex at Boston University, Boston Mount Greylock […]
Renovation Complete on $18.7M Affordable Housing Complex
Lynn, MA – WinnCompanies, a multifamily development and management company, has completed a $18.7 million rehabilitation of the Cobbet Hill apartments in Lynn, significantly renovating 117 units of affordable housing for families and seniors, creating new common areas and amenity spaces, and modernizing the building’s key systems. Lynn Mayor Thomas M. McGee joined company executives […]
SLAM Completes Outpatient Suites
New Britain, CT – The integrated design and construction team at SLAM (The S/L/A/M Collaborative and S/L/A/M Construction Services) has completed several outpatient suites on the first floor of Hartford Healthcare’s The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain. The team worked with facility managers to budget, design, and build the transformative project, which included […]
Robinson Joins Fuss & O’Neill
Providence, RI – Fuss & O’Neill has hired Arnold Robinson as its regional director of planning based out of Providence. He joins the firm after 30 years working in the fields of community planning, historic preservation and rehabilitation, education, and urban design. Most recently, Robinson served as associate dean for community engagement at Roger Williams University. […]
State Hospital Receives Award
Medfield, MA – The American Planning Association, Massachusetts Chapter (APA-MA) and the Massachusetts Association of Planning Directors (MAPD) have awarded the 2018 APA-MA Planning Project Award to the Medfield State Hospital (MSH) Strategic Reuse Master Plan. Kathleen McCabe, AICP, and Jennifer Mecca, RA, of McCabe Enterprises led the project team. McCabe Enterprises led the town […]
WinnCompanies Begins Upgrade of Affordable Housing
Worcester, MA – WinnCompanies has started construction on an $11.2 million rehabilitation of the historic Wellington Community, a 180-unit community for elderly and low-income residents in Worcester. The project will dramatically upgrade the interior and exterior of 11 buildings, 10 of which are historic, and will extend its affordability provisions for 30 years. Keith […]
CHC Richard E. Neal Complex Wins MHC Preservation Award – Designed by Dietz & Co.
Springfield, MA – Caring Health Center, Inc. was awarded the prestigious 2015 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award for the adaptive reuse, rehabilitationm and restoration at the Caring Health Center Richard E. Neal Complex. Dietz & Company Architects, Inc. senior project architect, Debbi Gottlieb, was the project architect for […]
Local Developer to Transform Leominster Mill with $5M MassDev Loan
Leominster, MA – MassDevelopment has provided a $5 million loan to The Lofts at City Place LLC, which will use the proceeds to rehabilitate an abandoned mill building in downtown Leominster. Local developer Jim Whitney will convert the 88,000sft, two-story building at 108 Adams Street into 51 units of market-rate housing. The building’s first floor will […]
Historic Boston Inc. Completes Restoration of Vertullo Building
Hyde Park, MA – Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Historic Boston Inc., elected officials, and members of the Hyde Park community welcomed three new businesses to the neighborhood following the recent completion of a $1.3 million rehabilitation of the Vertullo Building, which was built in 1868 — the same year that Hyde Park was founded — and is […]
