![]() ![]() The new, two-building development includes 3,384-square-feet of ground-level retail space, a management office, a bicycle storage room, and a 1,000-square-foot community room for use by residents and East Boston groups. Located one block from the MBTA Blue Line station at Maverick, the one-acre property provides the neighborhood with a quarter-mile view corridor to the waterfront and pedestrian access to the Harborwalk. “This new development ensures that low-income families can continue to have access to the East Boston waterfront and enjoy a better quality of life in new modern homes.” “These new homes will be an essential part of the East Boston neighborhood, securing Clippership’s affordable housing promise for the future,” said BHA Administrator Kate Bennett. More than 850 homebuyers have applied and qualified for an upcoming lottery to purchase the 14 new homes at dramatically subsidized prices. In addition, of the 30 new condominiums at Harborwalk Residences, 14 will be sold to middle-income homebuyers at subsidized prices. Ten original public housing households who previously lived at the Clippership property have returned to new, modern apartments at Harbor125. ![]() ![]() “I am proud to be a part of powerful investment in the people and the community of East Boston.” Now those families are returning to newly constructed high quality modern living spaces,” said Mayor Janey. “The Clippership Apartments, housing 22 rental units, will be welcoming back many families who were living here before the development plans were fully realized. The WinnDevelopment project demolished 20 units of obsolete public housing at the BHA property formerly known as Clippership Apartments to build Harbor125 Apartments, offering 22 modern apartment homes for low- and extremely low-income households, and Harborwalk Residences, featuring 30 condominiums to be sold to middle-income and market-rate households. Mayor Kim Janey today joined the officials from the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), WinnCompanies and MassHousing to formally open a unique $30.2 million development project that brings 52 units of both rental and homeownership opportunities to households of all incomes along the East Boston waterfront. ![]()
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