Elton + Hampton Architects

Heath Street, Bickford Avenue, Wensley Street, Lawn Street, Fisher Avenue, Bucknam Street, Parker Street

Jamaica Plain/Roxbury, MA

Client:

Back of the Hill Community Development Corporation and Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation

A multi-phased, planned reconstruction of an extensive area at the Southwest side of Mission Hill, along Heath Street and surrounding minor streets, Back-of-the-Hill has been in constant process since 1998, and has produced 80 units of Energy Star compliant, affordable family housing, in thirty buildings, for both rental and homeownership markets. Phases I & II are complete, Phase III is in construction, and later phases are in planning.

The result of conscientious attention to neighborhood goals and concerns, culled through an intensive process of meetings and feedback, Back-of-the-Hill represents Neighborhood Rebuilding at its best, completing the existing residential patterns with contextural, scale appropriate buildings on scattered sites.

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