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Downtown Anacostia is already a hub of other black businesses and way more development like MLK Gateway is coming to give other black businesses a chance to expand in the area.
Why exactly is this a reverse example? I’m assuming aside from the vendor featured here most of the development is white and it’s suburban?
Calling it a "reverse" example was inaccurate. It's an instance of Black entrepreneurs collectively elbowing their way into the city's premier gentrifying development. Can't be mad at that.
Calling it a "reverse" example was inaccurate. It's an instance of Black entrepreneurs collectively elbowing their way into the city's premier gentrifying development. Can't be mad at that.
This is as good as it gets in Boston on that regard, occasional pop ups. The seaport is just $80k a month in rent or something. I don’t think there’s an appetite for it tbh.
The Seaport x Black Owned Bos. Market will take place outside on Seaport Common and will feature black-owned businesses located throughout the Greater Boston area.
From gifts and apparel to packaged foods and beauty & skincare products, the Seaport x Black Owned Bos. Market will offer something for everyone as it raises awareness for and support of Black entrepreneurship.
This is as good as it gets in Boston on that regard, occasional pop ups. The seaport is just $80k a month in rent or something. I don’t think there’s an appetite for it tbh.
The Seaport x Black Owned Bos. Market will take place outside on Seaport Common and will feature black-owned businesses located throughout the Greater Boston area.
From gifts and apparel to packaged foods and beauty & skincare products, the Seaport x Black Owned Bos. Market will offer something for everyone as it raises awareness for and support of Black entrepreneurship.
Hey, that's something. At least they've found a way to have a presence there.
This is an informative piece about how difficult it can be to get similar developments off the ground in Black neighborhoods in slower-growing cities that are otherwise experiencing a development boom in other parts of town such as Birmingham: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-neighborhoods
Yea there definitely are but on a smaller scale and not as multi-faceted. Nubian Square is the crown jewel, for sure.
John Cruz is a major Cape Verdean developer and property manager from Roxbury. He has many developments in Roxbury and Dorchester. This is an all income-restricted apartment complex and restaurant space. This is about 6-7 blocks from the heart of Nubian Square but the city would still consider it the 'Nubian Square neighborhood' per google maps. He'll be employing some Boston YouthBuild workers on the project.
Here's one of them:
The Cruz Development Corporation’s 280-290 Warren Street project will include 95 units of moderately affordable housing, along with retail and office space for Cruz Development’s 45 employees, near the Washington Park Mall. The project will include 44 elder units and 102 on-site parking spaces.
These are DEEPLY affordable with income capped at 60% AMI. Currently under construction.
Nuestra Communidad is a Puerto Rican and Dominican Outfit that's Developing The Loop at Mattapan" 135 ALL affordable units directly on top of the Mattapan T Trolley station:
MassHousing, the non-profit Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), and the City of Boston announced the closing of $36.5 million in MassHousing affordable housing financing for the development of the 135-unit The Loop Mattapan Station, a new affordable and workforce housing community in Mattapan Square.
POAH is developing the Loop at Mattapan Station on an underutilized MBTA parking lot adjacent to the Mattapan trolley line station. The 135 apartment homes and 10,000 square feet of first-floor retail space will be contained in a six-story building and constructed using the latest passive house energy efficiency standards. All 135 apartment homes will be deed-restricted and affordable to households across a broad range of incomes, from very low income residents to moderate-income families, and will include 30 new workforce housing units.
Overall, the Loop at Mattapan Station will contain six studio apartments, 38 one-bedroom apartments, 81 two-bedroom apartments and 10 three-bedroom apartments.
Eighteen apartments will be restricted to very low-income households earning at or below 30 percent of the area median income (AMI) and those units will be supported by project-based vouchers through the federal Section 8 and the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Programs (MRVP). There will be 47 apartments restricted to households earning at or below 50 percent of AMI, 28 apartments restricted to households earning at or below 60 percent of AMI and 42 apartments restricted to households earning at or below 80 percent of AMI, of which 30 will be designated as workforce housing units. The AMI for Boston is $119,000 for a household of four.
Heres the latest one, Melnea Cass Apartments:
4-story, 16-unit building at 40 Raynor Circle and new construction of a 5-story, 60-unit building at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Brooke Marshall Field. The project is developed in partnership with the Boston Housing Authority and Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., as part of the Choice Neighborhood Initiative, a HUD program which helps redevelop public housing. The units range from deeply affordable to market rate.
The developer team of Dorchester Bay EDC, Boston Capital, Escazú Development, and Newmarket Community Partners proposes building 80 units of rental housing, up to 23,400 SF of light industrial space, and 8 units in 4 two-family homes on the site at 65 East Cottage Street in Dorchester. This is an approximately $38 million project that will use federal, state, and city financing sources.
The main residential building, which is now under construction, will be staggered in height at four and five stories and include 80 units of rental housing and a community room. A total of 9 condo units will be built in 4 smaller homes on the site. Overall, 26 units will be restricted to households making above 60 percent Area Median Income (AMI) and 44 will be designated affordable and funded with low income tax credits for households earning 60 percent of AMI or less.
Dorchester Bay EDC is working in partnership with Boston Capital, a large local firm, on the multi-family residential units, and with Escazu Development LLC, a small local company that is the sole developer of the condo units.
“Of course, there are tiers within that 60 percent band, and there are a number set aside for low-income and extremely low-income households, so we’re really hitting a deep level of affordability in our housing,” said Leah Whiteside, Dorchester Bay EDC’s associate director of real estate.
A two-story commercial-industrial building will front on East Cottage Street and offer a combination of mezzanine and light industrial sites – including loading bays – on the lower floor.
“It’s a very strategically placed and designed project,” said Newman. “It’s designed for maximum impact. It’s right on the MBTA Fairmount Line so access to downtown is easy and as the frequency of service improves the idea is that it will be much easier for people who live in the Indigo Block and also in surrounding areas to get to jobs downtown or in other parts of the community.”
Added Whiteside: “The first floor is an ideal spot for uses such as food production and light manufacturing. We’ve partnered with some contractors that might have interest in using it. The second floor will be set aside for tenants seeking office space.
The sheer amount of mid sized abandoned lots that pockmark inner city Boston has allowed for some black and brown development to claim dibs for the low dating back to the early 1990s
These are the type of developments that should be possible in black neighborhoods all over the nation. I hope opportunity zones continue to pump capital into these neighborhoods. Black neighborhoods have fallen so far from the 1920-1950's when black commercial corridors were vibrant and booming. I think we can get there again, but the community has to start supporting their own businesses in their neighborhood.
To be honest, while the development may not be on the scale of the cities mentioned on here thus far, I think you are starting to see some type of plans for development in black urban neighborhoods across the country involving black developers or entrepreneurs to some degree. Even in Syracuse, on the city’s South Side, there are plans by a developer and by 2 couples, among others, that have plans to help revitalize the South Salina Street corridor/Sankofa District. https://www.city-data.com/forum/58732725-post48.html
There is another corridor(South Avenue/West Onondaga) that has also been thrown around on that side of town in terms of development with some of it coming from this organization: https://www.jubilee-homes.org/
So, there are likely some efforts of various degrees where people in the community are helping to revitalize the community they live in and/or come from.
Here's another article about new development coming to west Charlotte that contains this relevant tidbit:
Graham knows that residents are concerned about the ramifications of development, like being priced out of their homes. But, according to him, there’s one thing sets this project apart from the others.
“The thing that makes this project so amazing is that the individuals who are involved in it actually live in the corridor, and they’re investing in the corridor,” he said, standing in a grassy plot where a commercial building will sit in a couple of years.
“These are young African-American investors who saw value in their community and are willing to invest in it. I think that means a lot… to protect the history and the tradition.”
Are there any barriers that have stopped people from moving to certain black neighborhoods in Charlotte? Any black neighborhoods that are heavily insulated? This development seems like a great plan. It’s a fine line between blocking development because of potential gentrification versus meeting neighborhood needs.
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