Real Estate Development

Acquisition and Renovation

Renovating properties threatened with conversion to market rental or luxury housing with new systems and structures.

 

 

  • Salem Heights Exterior

    Salem Heights Apartments

    Salem, MA

    POAH began renovations in June 2021 and in 2023 completed a $40M renovation that drastically increased interior air quality and energy efficiency of the building, bringing it close to Passive House standards.

  • Kenmore Abbey whole exterior from across street

    Kenmore Abbey

    Boston, MA

    The Kenmore Abbey Apartments is a 199-unit senior rental community in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, located steps away from Fenway Park. The historic property was constructed as a hotel in the late 1890s and was converted to its current use in 1984. Kenmore Abbey comprises two brownstone buildings that are architecturally significant and are connected by a footbridge between their second floors. Kenmore Abbey is a 100% senior Section 8 property with a very strong waiting list for occupancy.

  • Fred C. Matthews building exterior

    Fred C. Matthews III Senior Housing

    Chicago, IL

    Fred C. Mathews III Senior Housing is one of six properties acquired by POAH from the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago in 2019. This acquisition expanded POAH’s footprint in Chicago into three new communities plus the suburb of Harvey, and preserved 461 affordable apartments for low-income seniors for many years to come. 

    This 60-unit complex is located on the South Side of Chicago in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood near grocery stores, pharmacies, hospitals and other city amenities.

New Construction

Building homes that are appropriate for the surrounding neighborhood and community, built to high standards that integrate conservation and sustainability for the long term.

 

  • Cape View Way exterior

    Cape View Way

    Bourne, MA

    Completed during winter 2025, the 3-story Cape View Way development is a partnership between POAH and Housing Assistance. Cape View Way consists of 42 units of affordable housing with a mix of nine one-bedroom, 28 two-bedroom, and five three-bedroom apartments. Three apartments are fully handicapped-accessible, and a fourth is accessible to sensory-impaired residents. 

  • Exterior

    The Kenzi at Bartlett Station

    Boston, MA

    The Kenzi at Bartlett Station contains 50 units of supportive, affordable housing for older adults and is part of the five-phase redevelopment of the former bus yard now owned by Nuestra Comunidad and Windale Developers. The Kenzi serves individuals age 55 or older who have either low or middle-income housing needs in 41 affordable one-bedroom apartments and 3 affordable two-bedroom apartments.

  • a view of Fifth City Common with mural art

    Fifth City Commons

    Chicago, IL

    Fifth City Commons is a new-construction affordable housing development in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side with 43 apartments built to Passive House standards. Over four years in the making, it was part of the C40 Reinventing Competition for Cities that encouraged cities across the globe to offer vacant land for sustainable and net-zero development.

Community Revitalization

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

 

 

  • The Asberry

    Barry Farm

    Washington, DC

    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.

  • Exterior of Woodlawn Station

    Woodlawn Station

    Chicago, IL

    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.

  • Flat 9 Exterior

    Flat 9 at Whittier

    Boston, MA

    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.