In addition to the purchase of properties located on the site of the new Boys and Girls Club and the future athletic fields, the CDC assembled 36 vacant lots that are scattered throughout the target area where the CDC will build approximately 80 new affordable housing units. To date, it has already completed 56 units of affordable housing that are fully occupied by low-income families of the Main South neighborhood. In addition, the Main South CDC has recently started construction of 10 units of affordable energy-star rated townhouse units that will be sold to low and moderate income families under Phase IIIB of the housing development plans.



Site Planning and Site Design:

The Main South CDC retained the services of the Architectural firm of Domenech, Hicks and Krokmalnec to coordinate site planning and site design for the redeveloped area. They were chosen because of the work that they did in the Dudley Street neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston. They are able to incorporate sensitive infill design with affordability of the product.

Above is the latest site plan design for the entire 30 acres area, showing the athletic fields and the new Boys and Girls clubhouse. Below is the new Boys & Girls Club, completed in the summer of 2006.



Housing Production:

A considerable amount of time has been spent in designing appropriate housing units for the infill construction on the vacant lots. We were concerned that the new housing should combine architectural quality with affordability. DHK worked with “GreenTech”, an environmentally aware developer of modular housing, to create 8 of our custom designed townhouse units for the Beacon Street Phase I of the KGH Project. “GreenTech” was producing the housing in a new factory recently established in Worcester. "GreenTech" hired local labor recommended through the CDC to work in the new production facility.

The construction of 16 new townhouse units located on Beacon Street has been completed and they have been sold to low-mod income first-time homebuyers. The renovation of five three-family buildings that provide additional 15 units of affordable housing, located on Hollis and Gardner Streets, has been finalized and sold to low-mod income first-time homebuyers. These are the buildings that were spared demolition and were physically relocated.

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