Posted by ysinha@urbanedge.org on January 10, 2019
Dear Friends, Never let it be said that the city of Boston – especially the great neighborhoods of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain – doesn’t know how to help people during times of adversity. Over the Christmas holiday, we experienced a crisis that left more than 200 residents of our community without natural gas service but because of you,...
Posted by ysinha@urbanedge.org on November 28, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Suzanne Morse (617) 646-1020 smorse@oneillandassoc.com Urban Edge Awarded Funding from Wells Fargo Foundation for Redevelopment of Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain $175,000 grant will enhance community engagement efforts, improve health and safety for residents,...
Posted by Maria Caceres on June 1, 2018
Welcomes 20 new diverse non-profit organizations and distributes over $30.8M in funding across the region to effect lasting change The United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley today announced it will distribute $30.8 million in support of strategies, organizations, partnerships, and programs aimed at solving entrenched poverty and...
Posted by Maria Caceres on October 30, 2017
Boston-based developer Urban Edge Housing Corp. broke ground Friday on the Walker Park apartments, a 49-unit, $17.5 million affordable rental housing complex in Roxbury’s Egleston Square. Urban Edge is redeveloping three vacant parcels next to the Egleston Square Library into apartments restricted to households earning a maximum of 60 percent of the...
Posted by Maria Caceres on October 28, 2017
BOSTON – Saturday, October 28, 2017 – Mayor Martin J. Walsh today joined Urban Edge, elected officials and community leaders to celebrate the start of construction at the Walker Park Apartments, a $17.5 million affordable rental housing development that will create 49 new homes in Egleston Square. The City of Boston’s Department...
