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11/8/2013 The Fairmount Corridor Goals: Urban Villages 1. Transit equity 2. TOD mixed housing 3. Jobs & business 4. Green corridor A Sustainable Communities Presentation November 7, 2013 1 Our neighborhoods in 2000, a geography of

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The Fairmount Corridor

A Sustainable Communities Presentation

November 7, 2013

Goals: Urban Villages

  • 1. Transit equity
  • 2. TOD mixed housing
  • 3. Jobs & business
  • 4. Green corridor

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  • Transit use is 4x regional

average, commutes 1hr 15 min.

  • 90,000 people live within

walking distance of line

  • Median income, $31,300,
  • approx. $17k < state average
  • 2008-2009, 65-70% foreclosures

in Boston were in this area

  • Runs through the heart of the

Mayor’s “Circle of Promise”

  • HUD Choice & Promise areas.

Our neighborhoods in 2000, a geography of inequality:

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The Vision: Green Transit-Oriented Development

Strong, vibrant, diverse 21st century communities along the corridor. Five Goals:

  • Strong civic engagement
  • Transit equity
  • Mixed-income housing
  • Living wage jobs
  • Active green/open spaces

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2000- Four Corners Action Coalition wins commits for 2 stations 2004- CDCs join; organize along entire corridor= 2 more stations. 20055- FTA Commits $37.5M, State DOT & MBTA commit $135M for 4 new stations, bridges, repairs.

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Fairmount Organizational Chart

Extending the reach to deliver the vision

Fairmount Coalition: Transit equity focus Fairmount Collaborative: Real estate development focus Fairmount Greenway Task Force: Open space and recreation focus Collaborating CDCs +

  • Greater Four Corners

Action Coalition

  • Project RIGHT (Rebuild

and Improve Grove Hall Together)

  • Dudley Street

Neighborhood Initiative

  • Quincy Geneva

Housing Corporation

  • Conservation Law

Foundation Collaborating CDCs +

  • Greater Four Corners

Action Coalition

  • Project RIGHT (Rebuild

and Improve Grove Hall Together)

  • Dudley Street

Neighborhood Initiative

  • Quincy Geneva Housing

Corporation

  • Boston Natural Areas

Network

  • 02136-All Things Hyde

Park

COLLABORATING CDCS

  • Dorchester Bay EDC
  • Codman Square NDC
  • Mattapan CDC
  • Southwest Boston CDC

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Corridor Progress from 2000--2013:

  • July 17, 2013- 3 stations open at Newmarket, Four Corners, & Talbot; Blue Hill in design.
  • July 1, 2013- $2 fares to Hyde Park, shorter commutes, and improved access to jobs.
  • URBAN VILLAGES emerging along the line,
  • HOUSING: 1,049 housing unit pipeline; 564 units, completed/in construction; 265 units/

pre-development (829 units total). 30 foreclosed properties (79 units), rehabbed and sold.

  • 8 commercial or mixed use projects, 91,940 sf completed or in development. 40,000 sf retail
  • Green food hubs: Food Production Small Business Center employing 150 people; Dot.

Community Food Coop for Bowdoin Street Business District.

  • A lush Fairmount Greenway Plan-- open space, bike/walking paths, 6 priority sites & 2 pilot pathways
  • 2012, the Boston Redevelopment Authority launched “Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative” for TOD

priorities; corridor-wide economic development strategies. 4 Working area groups; 2 community wide

forums; over 400 involved thus far.

Fairmount/Indigo

Transit Coalition 2000

Fairmount/Indigo

CDC Collaborative 2004

Fairmount/Indigo

Greenway Task Force 2008

BRA Fairmount/Indigo Planning Initiative 2012

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July 2013-Four Corners Opening, $2 fares for Fairmount!

  • Gov. Patrick, Mayor Menino,

Boston Foundation-$10M Fairmount comm. development

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2013: Ribbon cutting for Newmarket Station, light industrial “bookend”

Newmarket Business District, 13,000 food & light industrial jobs South Bay Center 2,000 retail jobs

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Fairmount/Indigo CDC Collaborative current/completed efforts TOD - Housing

CODMAN SQUARE NDC:

  • Completed 31-unit Lithgow Residential
  • Completed Levedo 24 unit mixed use
  • Completing 157 Washington (AB& W) funded; 24

unit mixed use

  • City funding commitments for the 54-unit Phase I

Washington/ Codman Apartments

  • 4 foreclosed properties; 10 in pipeline

DORCHESTER BAY EDC

  • Completed 50-unit mixed use Dudley Village
  • Completed 13 unit Uphams West- mixed use rental,

4 homeless

  • Construction 129 units Quincy Heights HUD CHOICE

Award winner. $56M project

  • 20 foreclosed properties rehabbed, resold, 57 units.

SOUTHWEST BOSTON CDC

  • Joint venture with Tallon Development on a new

mixed-use project at Nott St.

  • 2 foreclosed properties resold (6 units)

DUDLEY VILLAGE BEFORE …AND AFTER 10

DB Dudley Village & Uphams West today: 7 mixed use buildings, 63 units, 6 retail

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Codman Square NDC’s 157 Washington St. Four Corners Stop; 24 coop units, 2 retail-- Dorchester Arts Collaborative (DB SB loan)

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CDC Collaborative – current, future efforts TOD - Commercial

CODMAN SQUARE NDC:

  • Tax credits awarded for 24-unit mixed use

Levedo Motors project (Talbot Avenue station)

  • Mixed use at 157Washington St.
  • Future Talbot Commons - 30,000 sf

commercial

SOUTHWEST BOSTON CDC

  • 5,000 sf commercial in 16 unit mixed use
  • Riverside Theatre Works to bid & redevelop the

Lewis Chemical property at Fairmount Station DORCHESTER BAY EDC

  • Sustainable artisan Collaborative at 259 Quincy St.
  • Pearl Meats – 196-214 Quincy St – (owned);

commercial multi-business food production center.

  • 195 Bowdoin- Dorchester Community Food Coop
  • $6.9M in 120 small business loans = 750

JOBS

259 Q Pearl Meats before

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Project of Nuestra Dorchester Bay EDC & Quincy Geneva CDC DBEDC Dorchester Bay EDC

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HUD Choice $20.5M award 2012 to Quincy Heights & Quincy Corridor, one of five U.S. HUD Choice Neighborhoods

grants, to the City of Boston, DBEDC, Project RIGHT, DSNI. $12.5M for construction, $3M for resident services, and $3M for “critical community improvements” like the Pearl job center.

HUD Secretary Shawn Donovan with long awaiting residents Then senator Kerry

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Quincy Heights Apartments, 129 units, 80 rehab, 49 new construction.

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Before demolition spring 2013

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Quincy St. after demolition, site prep

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Bornstein & Pearl Small Business Food Production Center (probably the Pearl Center):

  • $788K award from Federal OCS;
  • $1.5M State of MA
  • $2.7M LISC/PNC Bank New Markets Tax Credits
  • $2.7M City of Boston HUD 108 loan
  • $2.3M Boston Community Capital acquisition, predevelopment, & construction loan;
  • $400K LISC line of credit
  • $500K DBEDC investment of its own capital.
  • Construction started June, 2013
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30-50 small businesses & 80-150 jobs in 3 years.

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New Agreements on Jobs for local people:

DBay, Quincy Geneva, Project RIGHT, and DSNI sign agreement on Subs & worker jobs:

  • 51% local, 51% minority, 15% women.
  • 30% minimum MBE sub-contractors (actual 66%)
  • 10% minimum female sub-contractors (actual 14%)

Mass Minority Contractors Assoc. signs agreement with MACDC’s Boston CDCs:

  • Ditto on above requirements.
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SMALL BUSINESS LENDING since1995):

Religious capital, Calvert Found. CDFI capital $1M; <$150K/loan SBA Micro lender $500-$50K/loan SBA 7-A Comm. Advantage lender<$250K SBA 504 Lender <$5M default rate 7% 61% Start-ups; 71% minority businseses. 118 direct or packaged small business loans totaling $6M >700 jobs. Teranga, (Senagalese Restaurant) start up

  • loan. Opening 2nd site next year.

Fairmount Corridor Loans in June & July: 1) $338K SBA 504 to T-Cognition, 25 jobs 2) $100K to Fairmount Grille in Hyde Park 3) $10K to Dorchester Arts Collaborative

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191-195 Bowdoin St.- EPA $200K grant Future Dorchester Community Food Coop

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Sustainability Guild Intl. temporary “food hub” space at Bowdoin St, building coop members, healthy food events.

Photos by Renato A.D. Riccioni Sustainability Guild Intl

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Foreclosed properties: In our renovation efforts 2008-2012, DB:

  • purchased 20 properties
  • sold 19; (1 stayed rental)
  • kept 57 families in affordable

housing;

  • generated 110 jobs.
  • worked with crime watch &

Boston PD & ISD, who closed 2 major drug depots.

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Youth on the move:

DB Youth Force won $9.2M for after school jobs, 2012; $19M in 2013 30 private sector jobs; 1 of top MA youth organizing groups DB Re-Entry: 5 years; 386 people; 175 jobs; 6% recidivism rate; 2012-40 ex-offenders got jobs; partners BPD, HOC; Hope to add 5 more CDCs

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Fairmount Greenway - Fairmount Greenway Task Force

  • Greenway Task Force organized in 2008
  • Ten Task Force organizations signed an

MOU to promote accountability

  • Community inventories of potential

Greenway parcels completed in September 2009.

  • EPA identified priority sites for remediation
  • Crosby | Schlessinger | Smallridge

completed a community driven design concept plan 2010.

  • 8 Charettes to review inventories,

priorities.

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Fairmount Greenway Task Force:

  • 400 people ID 161 parcels
  • prioritize 61 parcels
  • EPA helps ID priority sites

for clean up.

  • select 6 priority sites
  • ask City for designation.
  • select 2 pilot segments for

bikeway/walkway

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Private Funding

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Funding & Financing:

  • $2 million in acquisition & pre-development financing
  • $4.2 million city grants for Fairmount affordable housing projects

currently in planning

  • $250,000 to develop coordinated commercial development strategy &

implementation plan

  • Prioritize public infrastructure improvements adjacent to & along

greenway

  • Establish & prioritize new financing models for commercial

development

  • Alternative tax strategies (TIF, DIF)

Here’s What We Need From city agencies in 2011:

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Chosen by community Working Area Group

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The Leon Building

Cons: acquisition price if no JV demolition @ $1M parking cost-garage ($15K/space) reuse difficult in current building higher cost if >7 floors little private green space

  • TOD at station, links to business district
  • already dense, OK for mixed use, income
  • greenspace over parking deck efficient.
  • only need .5 parking spaces/unit
  • reuse of old building “greener”, cheaper.
  • gateway building
  • joint venture options- CDC, Equity, owner
  • owner of extra parcel on corner will JV

Pros:

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Priority Site #2- Maxwell Business Park 3 acres at Uphams Fairmount Stop.

Scenario 1

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Maxwell Scenario 2: 100 units 50,000 sf lite indust. Pros: City owned Low acquisition $ City demo? Need for mixed income 100 rental units >5 floors stick built 1% vacancy-lite indust. 15+ businesses Could create 150 jobs Access to station Shared green space Community room Community buy-in Neighbors organized Cons: City wants for DBW electrical storage Counters BRA process & guidelines Under deck parking $ Demo cost

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  • $10M Committed by The Boston Foundation for Fairmount corridor
  • $5M TOD fund LISC
  • $20.5M HUD CHOICE award
  • $1.8M HUD Community Challenge -acquisitions
  • $126 million in city investment -project funding, & property management,
  • $4.01 million Mass Dept Housing & Econ Dev.
  • $350K from Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Fairmount-Indigo Planning
  • $180,000 technical assistance via EPA, HUD, DOT Sustainable Communities
  • $200K EPA funding for 191-195 Bowdoin St. & Pearl Meats.
  • $200 million committed by MA DOT, FTA, MBTA for 4 stations & bridges
  • $200K from MAPC award of $4M HUD Sustainable Communities

City, State & Federal Status Report: