Goal: To support initiatives and multi-sector partnerships that improve the neighborhood environment and to facilitate long-term, positive neighborhood investment.
Strategies include advancing thoughtful real estate development projects that are responsive to the community’s needs and opportunities and aligning community partners in sustainable entities to increase collective impact.
Recent Projects
Roxbury Cultural District: A Community-Driven Economic Cultural Collaboration
Roxbury is rich in arts and cultural assets. However, many of these assets remain underutilized by residents and relatively unknown to those beyond the neighborhood, limiting the potential economic opportunities (for residents, artists, business owners, entrepreneurs) that are aligned with a more vibrant cultural district.
TACC restarted a long-standing community conversation and assisted in establishing the Roxbury Cultural District to serve as the backbone organizational structure needed for a sustained, collaborative focus on activating and marketing Roxbury’s arts and cultural assets. As of May 2017, Roxbury has been designated Boston’s third cultural district by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Local Strategies for Residents and Neighborhood: United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury
United Neighbors of Lower Roxbury requested TACC’s assistance with regaining their nonprofit status as a neighborhood-based membership organization and for schematics for the development of their 4,020 sq. ft. parcel at 90 Windsor Street in Lower Roxbury.
Through pro bono legal assistance from the Lawyers Clearinghouse, UNLR regained their nonprofit status while TACC assisted with capacity building to solidify the board’s roles and responsibilities.
Whittier Choice: Local Strategies for People and Neighborhood
Boston received $30M from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support the Whittier Choice Neighborhoods Initiative in Roxbury. These federal funds will leverage $260M in public and private investment to redevelop Whittier Street public housing.
TACC provides technical assistance to the BHA to align Whittier Choice with local assets and needs.