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Community Revitalization

Community Revitalization

Description

Vibrant new residential communities that offer housing for a range of incomes, enhanced amenities and better connection to the surrounding neighborhoods.

 

 

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Woodlawn Station

Location

Chicago, IL

Description

Woodlawn Station was the last phase in POAH's Woodlawn Choice Initiative, a broad effort to rebuild and revitalize the Woodlawn community and encourage re-investment in this South Side neighborhood of Chicago.

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Barry Farm

Location

Washington, DC

Description

The Barry Farm neighborhood is located off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, west of historic Anacostia in Washington, D.C. and was originally established in 1867 as the first African-American homeownership community in Washington, D.C. for newly freed slaves. Over time, the original 375-acre site dwindled in size and in 1943 The National Capital Housing Authority acquired 24 acres and built the Barry Farm public housing project.

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Flat 9 at Whittier

Location

Boston, MA

Description

The Flat 9 at Whittier redevelopment is a collaboration between POAH, Madison Park Development Corporation and the Boston Housing Authority to redevelop the Whittier Street Apartments site in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Originally built in the early 1950s, the Whittier Apartments were home to 200 public housing families. 

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Clinton Peabody

Location

St. Louis, MO

Description

Clinton Peabody is a comprehensive, impactful, and people-centered redevelopment that elevates this historic community with high-quality mixed-income housing, enhanced community spaces and amenities, and services that will help residents grow and thrive.

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The Asberry at Barry Farm

Location

Washington, DC

Description

Opened in 2024, The Asberry, located at 1200 Sumner Road SE, is a mixed-use building with 108 affordable rental apartments with a preference for those aged 55+, thoughtful amenities and over 5,000 square feet of retail space. With a landscape courtyard, a wellness room, a fitness center, a community room and a rooftop amenity space, The Asberry is a hub for engagement and community.

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Trianon Lofts

Location

Chicago, IL

Description

Trianon Lofts is POAH’s newest addition to Woodlawn Park, which consists of a variety of distinctive structures combining residential, commercial and recreational uses that have made it the center of a healthy new community.

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The Burnham at Woodlawn Park

Location

Chicago, IL

Description

The Burnham is 65–unit senior development that opened in August of 2015 as part of Woodlawn Park - a new, vibrant, healthy and attractive mixed-use/mixed-income urban community containing a variety of distinctive structures in Chicago's Woodlawn community just south of the University of Chicago.

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The Jackson at Woodlawn Park

Location

Chicago, IL

Description

Located just south of the University of Chicago on the South Side, the Jackson at Woodlawn Park was the first POAH development in Chicago. Woodlawn Park consists of a variety of distinctive structures combining residential, commercial and recreational uses that have made the South Cottage Grove corridor the center of a healthy new community.The Jackson Is a 67-unit development mixed-income affordable housing building that includes one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. 

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The Grant at Woodlawn Park

Location

Chicago, IL

Description

The Grant at Woodlawn Park is a 33-unit family development that opened in September 2013 as part of Woodlawn Park, a variety of distinctive structures combining residential, commercial and recreational uses that have made the South Cottage Grove corridor the center of a healthy new community.

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Temple Landing

Location

New Bedford, MA

Description

Temple Landing is a 173-unit family housing development located five blocks west of City Hall in downtown New Bedford.

In 2007, the property was at risk of financial insolvency. POAH was approached by the property’s owner and original developer about partnering to save the housing then called United Front Homes.