Our Offices have moved right next door

(January 2012)

The move is complete. We have relocated our offices to the Annex Building next door (accessed from the Urban Edge parking lot entered from Ritchie Street).  All systems are up and running and the staff is back in full swing. We hope 2012 is off to a good start for you too!

Jamaica Plain / Roxbury rehab construction begins
January 19, 2012

Urban Edge has begun work to rehabilitate 82 units of occupied, multi-family, affordable rental housing in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Construction started in January 2012 on the historic preservation and green renovation of the 82 of its “Limited Partnership Apartments” within 10 buildings at seven different sites across the two neighborhoods.
“This project keeps our promise that all the housing developed and owned by Urban Edge will remain a growing asset to its residents, their neighborhoods and the City of Boston,” Noah Maslan, Urban Edge’s real estate director said in a statement.

Less than six months ago Urban Edge completed the green rehabilitation of 103 other rental apartments in Jamaica Plain and Dorchester. The 82 units being renovated are the latest in Urban Edge’s current development pipeline of eight renovation projects planned over the next two to three years. Urban Edge believes these projects will boost the local economy, improve housing quality and extend affordability to 515 families, while also improving the environment through reduced energy and water use.

Wardman Emergency Fire Relief Fund update

January 15, 2012

On the morning of October 17, 2011, residents at Wardman Apartments faced a devastating fire raging out of control. Thirteen people were injured and more than 75 residents--including school-aged children and grandmothers—lost their homes in this catastrophic six-alarm fire. Firefighters rescued terrified people trapped by the flames from windows and, in one harrowing scene, a young child was dropped from the third floor into the arms of a waiting rescuer. Firefighters commented that there were more rescues accomplished than in any fire in recent memory. Two of the buildings are a total loss.

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For the families who have now lost everything, a disaster of this magnitude requires an extraordinary community response.  We have set up the Wardman Emergency Fire Relief Fund to help address residents’ basic needs like clothing, food, household goods – even school supplies for the children. Thank you to those who have generous donated; if you have not yet done so, please consider a gift to the Wardman Relief Fund today. 

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