FINAL PNF -- Jackson Square - Boston Redevelopment Authority

Edge Housing Corporation and the Hyde Square Task Force working with affiliated
developers Mitchell Properties and Gravestar, Inc. The Project, based on a community
planning initiative, involving hundreds of community residents, youth and business owners
from across Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, is a bold and ambitious mix of program uses and
building types that will create a pedestrian-oriented neighborhood that puts the “Square”
back in Jackson Square. The Project has also been planned and designed to be a healthy
and sustainable community that integrates the highest principles of smart growth, transitoriented
development and green design. Figure 1-1 shows an aerial view of the proposed
Project looking east.
The Project program involves approximately 429 units (452,010 square feet) of housing,
including approximately 251 units (58 percent) affordable to households earning up to 80
percent of the area median income (AMI), with another 39 units (10 percent) affordable to
households earning less than 110 percent of the AMI, for a total of 290 units (68 percent)
targeted for low or moderate income households. Jackson Square will include
approximately 67,700 square feet of new ground floor retail space, 13,500 square feet of
office space and approximately 50,600 square feet of community facilities, including a
Youth and Family Center (YFC) and an indoor active recreation facility, and a new facility
for the Department of Youth Services (DYS). The Project also includes a number of
streetscape, public infrastructure and open space improvements, as well as approximately
500 off-street and 128 on-street parking spaces.
The Team
Jackson Square Partners (JSP) will serve as the master developer of the Project and will have
ultimate responsibility to the community, funders and public agencies for ensuring delivery
of the Jackson Square Project. Decisions regarding overall program, including program
mix, project siting, community planning process, and overall approach to project phasing
and financing, are made by the JSP. The JSP board is made up of the executive directors of
each partner and three members of the boards of each organization.
The three JSP partners together with two private developers (Mitchell Properties and
Gravestar, Inc.) and The Friends of the Kelly Rink are collectively known as “Partners for
Jackson.” Under the oversight of the JSP, the Partners are involved in distinct components
of the Project in the following way:
♦ JPNDC, Urban Edge and Mitchell Properties each will have lead developer roles in the
housing projects and partner in the other elements of the development program;
♦ Gravestar, Inc. will play a lead role in the development, leasing and management of the
retail program; and
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