The Life Initiative 2013 Investments

The Life Initiative 2013 Investments

The Neighborhood Developers

The Neighborhood Developers
4 Gerrish Avenue
Chelsea, MA

Increase to Line of Credit – $500,000 to $750,000

Increase TLI’s line of credit to enable the borrower to pay for pre-development costs of its multi-family residential projects.

The Neighborhood Developers

The Neighborhood Developers
189 Broadway
Revere, MA

Site Acquisition Loan – $600,000

Provide an acquisition loan to enable Borrower to purchase a privately-owned site at 189 Broadway in Revere.  This loan will support the construction of 50 units of affordable housing.

Children’s Investment Fund

Children’s Investment Fund
Boston, MA

Line of Credit – $750,000

Renew loan to CIF, to enable CIF to make small loans to non-profit child care providers to improve or create facilities serving low-income children.

Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation

Dorchester, MA

Acquisition Loan – $432,000

Provide an acquisition loan to enable the borrower to re-finance existing mortgage debt on a site CSNDC owns, at the corner of Lyndhurst Street and Washington Street in the Codman Square neighborhood of Dorchester.  This loan supports the rehabilitation of 43 units of affordable housing.

Home City Housing Development Corporation

Crosstown Commons
Springfield, MA

Construction Loan – $4,250,000

Provide construction financing to renovate 47 units of family rental housing.

Elizabeth Stone House

Elizabeth Stone House
Boston, MA

Acquisition Loan – $688,750

Provide an acquisition loan for a 44,014 square foot site to create 27 units of supportive housing for homeless women victims of domestic abuse.  The facility will also include 12,000 square feet of program space.

Caritas Communities Patriot Homes

Caritas Communities and South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation
South Boston, MA

Construction Loan – $2,875,000

Construct 24 units targeted to low income veterans seeking permanent housing and 1,000 square feet of office space for the South Boston NDC.

HAP, Inc.

Olympia Oaks
Amherst, MA

Construction Loan – $6,300,000

Provide construction financing for 42 new units of family rental housing.

South Middlesex Opportunity Council

South Middlesex Opportunity Council
Framingham, MA

Acquisition Loan – $925,000

Provide an acquisition loan to enable the borrower to purchase two buildings at 189-201 Middlesex Street in Lowell, MA.  This loan supports the rehabilitation of 50 SRO for formerly homeless individuals.

Resident Owned Communities

Wheel Estates Tenants Association
North Adams, MA

Acquisition Term Loan – $2,120,000

Provide term loan for the acquisition of a manufactured housing community by its residents, more than 75% of whom are low-moderate income.  The acquisition will preserve 188 units of affordable housing.

Junction Shop Mill

Junction Shops Mill, LLC
Worcester, MA

Construction Loan – $2,750,000

Provide a construction loan to bridge the receipt of equity from an investor in federal and state historic tax credits for the gut renovation of a historic mill complex into 172 units of rental housing in the Beacon/Federal neighborhood of Worcester.

Dakota Partners

Village Green Apartments
Barnstable, MA

Acquisition Loan – $1,070,000

Acquisition loan to acquire a 3.72 acre site for the development of 60 units of affordable rental apartment units in Barnstable.

Fall River YMCA

Southcoast YMCA
Fall River, MA

Construction Bridge Loan – $4,440,000

Bridge loan for the renovation of the historic YMCA building, and to add facilities for educational after school programming.

TOTAL 2013 Investments through October: $27,950,750