City/Town Name | Description | Approval Date |
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Somerville | Prospect Hill Park Construction |
This project will renovate Prospect Hill Park, a local historic district and the site of the raising of the first flag of the united colonies, ordered by George Washington on January 1, 1776. |
04/26/2018 |
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Somerville | Elizabeth Peabody House Roof Replacement |
This project replaced the roof on the Elizabeth Peabody House building, a historically significant building that is home to a pre-school, food pantry, and other social services offered by the Elizabeth Peabody House Association. |
04/26/2018 |
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Somerville | Somerville Community Growing Center Rehabilitation and Restoration Implementation Project |
This project will implement the hardscape elements of the rehabilitation of the Community Growing Center from the CPA funded design. |
04/26/2018 |
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Somerville | Election Records Preservation |
This project will preserve and provide access to the City of Somerville's Election Department records (1884-1967) by digitally scanning them and making them available free of charge online. These records include voter lists used at polls, index of registered votes, general register, voter annual registers by ward and precinct, preliminary and general election results, poll taxes, and list of women voters. |
04/26/2018 |
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Somerville | Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund Appropriation FY18 |
Appropriation to the Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which serves as the housing arm of the Somerville Community Preservation Committee |
03/08/2018 |
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Somerville | Acquisition of 5 Palmer parcel |
The City of Somerville will acquire the property at 5 Palmer Avenue to become perpetually preserved open space. CR provided to Groundwork Somerville Inc. in 2019; see project ID# 48147 for the $6000 appropriation for an endowment to hold the CR. |
10/26/2017 |
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Somerville | 100 Homes Initiative |
The goal of the 100 Homes Program is to create affordable units by acquiring existing properties that represent a mix of single and multi-bedroom units, and rent them to households with mix of incomes at affordable rent levels. The initiative is building on the success of the 100 Homes pilot funded in FY15. This phase of the project resulted in eight units in three properties. |
09/14/2017 |
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Somerville | ShortStop Self Sufficiency Program Wayside FY17 |
CPA funds will support a portion of the cost of rent of a building to house 9 individuals between the ages of 18-24 for up to one year. |
06/18/2017 |
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Somerville | Butterfly Garden Pocket Park at Morse Kelly Park |
The City of Somerville and Green and Open Somerville will convert the planting beds on the Summer Street side of the Morse Kelly Park into a pocket park that will support our local pollinators with native plants. |
06/08/2017 |
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Somerville | Healey Schoolyard Design |
The City of Somerville will procure design services for a renovated Healey Schoolyard. |
06/08/2017 |
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Somerville | Winter Hill Schoolyard Construction |
The City of Somerville will construct a new schoolyard for the Winter Hill Community Innovation School. |
05/25/2017 |
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Somerville | SHC Prevention and Stabilization Services (PASS) Program FY17 |
CPA funds will benefit an estimated 7 Somerville households in time-limited rental assistance of up to two years. Grantee is Somerville Homeless Coalition. |
05/11/2017 |
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Somerville | SHC Better Homes Program FY17 |
CPA assistance allows 12 formerly homeless and disabled Somerville households to remain housed. Annual extensions are available for each household to ensure that they remain in housing. Grantee is Somerville Homeless Coalition. |
05/11/2017 |
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Somerville | Blessing of the Bay Boathouse Park Revitalization |
MyRWA led a robust community engagement process and procured design services to complete a 25% design landscape plan for the Blessing of the Bay Boathouse Park and phasing and cost estimates for implementation. |
04/27/2017 |
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Somerville | Grace Baptist Church Restoration |
The Somerville Hispanic Association for Community Development will rehabilitate the historic Grace Baptist Church and make it ADA accessible. The project completed underbudget. |
04/27/2017 |
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Somerville | Milk Row Cemetery Rehabilitation & Restoration |
The City of Somerville Planning Division will restore grave markers in the Milk Row Cemetery. |
04/27/2017 |
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Somerville | Community Growing Center â Upgrade Design/ Community Build Planning |
The Friends of the Community Growing Center will procure landscape architect and project management services to complete construction documents for the re-design of the Center funded by the CPA in FY15. |
04/27/2017 |
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Somerville | Grace Baptist Church Restoration |
The Somerville Hispanic Association for Community Development will rehabilitate the historic Grace Baptist Church and make it ADA accessible. The building is home to the association and the food pantry it runs, as well as other social service organizations. |
03/23/2017 |
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Somerville | Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund Appropriation FY17 |
Annual appropriation to the Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund which serves as the housing arm of the Community Preservation Committee |
01/26/2017 |
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Somerville | Central Library Mold Remediation |
Somerville Public Library will remediate historic materials in the Central Library closed stacks and install an air conditioning unit to preserve them in the future. |
10/13/2016 |
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Somerville | Stained Glass Window Restoration at 83 Belmont St. |
This project will provide resources for the property owners at 83 Belmont St. to replace the original stained glass window in their home which was damaged in a fire. Per the Somerville CPC practice of requiring preservation restrictions on all historic resources projects (if not already in place), a permanent preservation restriction will be recorded on this property. |
10/13/2016 |
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Somerville | SHC Better Homes Program FY16 |
This Lease Differential Program continuation of the Better Homes Program will benefit 12 formerly homeless and disabled Somerville households. Funding will cover the gap in rent between what HUD can fund (up to FMR) and what the actual cost of the monthly rent is for the units in Somerville. Grantee is Somerville Homeless Coalition. |
07/20/2016 |
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Somerville | ShortStop Self Sufficiency Program Wayside FY16 |
CPA funds will support a portion of the cost of rent to house 9 individuals between the ages of 18-24 for up to one year. Wayside provides transitional housing to homeless young adults. Funding will cover the gap in rent between what HUD can fund (up to FMR) and what the actual cost of the monthly rent is for the units in Somerville. |
07/20/2016 |
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Somerville | Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund Appropriation- FY16 second appropriation |
Appropriation to the Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which serves as the housing arm of the Community Preservation Committee |
06/23/2016 |
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Somerville | Mystic WaterWorks |
Additional funding for the redevelopment of the former 1.4-acre Mystic Water Works property into a 25-unit affordable housing complex for the Somerville Housing Authority. |
06/09/2016 |
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Somerville | Somerville Community Path Repaving |
This project will provide resources for the City of Somerville Engineering Department, in partnership with the Friends of the Community Path, to repave three sections of the Community Path: from the grassy circle to the Cambridge line, from Thorndike St. to Buena Vista Rd. and from Grove St. parking lot to Cedar St. |
05/26/2016 |
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Somerville | 100 Homes Initiative |
This project seeks to secure 100 new units of affordable housing in Somerville through purchasing existing multi-family properties and converting them to affordable housing. |
05/12/2016 |
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Somerville | Hoyt Sullivan Playground |
This project will provide resources for the City of Somerville to renovate and possibly expand the 22,000 square foot Hoyt Sullivan Playground. The renovation will include improving ADA and universal access, new lighting, circulation paths, improving the tree canopy and sustainable practices, providing active and passive recreation with a focus on younger children and improved visual connections to the community path and rail corridor via a new deck overlook. |
04/28/2016 |
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Somerville | Milk Row Cemetery Rehabilitation & Restoration |
This project will provide resources for the City of Somerville to rehabilitate and conserve 48 grave markers and the Civil War Monument in the Milk Row Cemetery. The Cemetery is maintained by the Department of Public Works and the Somerville Garden Club. |
04/28/2016 |
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Somerville | Somerville Museum - Capital Improvements |
This project will provide resources for the Somerville Museum to become ADA compliant. This will include building an elevator to meet ADA requirements, reinstalling the Museumâs original Palladian window that was removed in 1986 per a deed restriction with the Massachusetts Historical Commission. |
04/28/2016 |
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Somerville | South Street Farm |
This project will provide resources for Groundwork Somerville to expand the capacity of the South Street Farm to be used as public space and an outdoor classroom in addition to its current function as an urban farm. This will include constructing a shade structure, wash station, bicycle parking, and tables and benches. Groundwork Somerville will also make improvements such as conducting a phytoremediation project, creating new rain collection surfaces and storage, installation of composting structures, and improving onsite water and drainage management. |
04/28/2016 |
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Somerville | Allen Street Mixed Use Renovation |
Schematic design to rebuild the Allen Street Open Space. The design will seek to maintain or expand the 16 existing community garden plots and benches for neighbors. It will also add a play area for children, serving the surrounding community and the Allen Street Head Start School, which is directly across from the open space. |
04/28/2016 |
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Somerville | West Branch Library Renovation |
The proposed project seeks to preserve, rehabilitate and restore the Library, which is a historic Carnegie library. The West Branch Library is listed on the National and State Register of Historical Places. |
04/28/2016 |
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Somerville | Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund Appropriation FY16 |
Appropriation to the Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which serves as the housing arm of the Community Preservation Committee |
02/25/2016 |
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Somerville | Redevelopment of 163 Glen St. |
The Somerville Community Corporation will redevelop the former American Legion Post building into eight affordable units for low- and middle-income households and three market-rate units. |
09/10/2015 |
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Somerville | 100 Homes Initiative Pilot |
The Somerville Community Corporation will pilot its 100 Homes Initiative, which will secure affordability in the existing housing market. In addition to the restriction described below, which was for five units in two properties, the Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund recorded an additional housing restriction for two units in one property, recorded on March 8, 2017 with the Middlesex Registry of Deeds, book and page: 01505/7. |
06/25/2015 |
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Somerville | Healey School to Mystic |
The Friends of the Healey worked with a consultant to research, design, and plan a multi-phased master plan to create a new green neighborhood to include the triangle of the Healey School, the Mystic Learning Center, and Blessing of the Bay Boathouse. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Temple B'nai Brith |
Temple B'nai Brith will add a fire safety sprinkler system and elevator to its 1922 Byzantine Revival building. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | School Garden Classrooms |
Groundwork Somerville rehabilitated and improved 8 schoolyard garden classrooms at Arthur D. Healey School, Benjamin G. Brown School, Dr. Albert F. Argenziano School, East Somerville Community School, John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Next Wave and Full Circle Alternative Schools, West Somerville Neighborhood School, and Winter Hill Community Innovation School. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Mystic WaterWorks |
The CPC granted $243,000 to the Somerville Housing Authority to rehabilitate and restore the historic windows at the Mystic Water Works. The Affordable Housing Trust granted $257,000 to fund soft costs related to the community housing portion of the project. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | City of Somerville Archives - Processing Contractor |
The City's Archivist will hire a contractor to process permanent collections and create a record guide to facilitate preservation of the collections. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Milk Row Cemetery Rehabilitation & Restoration |
The City's Planning Division contracted a firm to rehabilitate the historic tombs in Milk Row Cemetery. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Community Growing Center â Upgrade Design/ Community Build Planning |
The Friends of the Community Growing Center will complete in-process upgrade planning, using regenerative systems design approach; complete construction documents; and carry out related experiential/educational events and activities to engage community in process |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Prospect Hill Park Design Services |
The City's Transportation and Infrastructure Division will contract design services to rehabilitate Prospect Hill Park and provide opportunities for historic interpretation and passive recreation. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | City Hall Renovation Design |
The City's Capital Projects and Planning Department will engage a design team to restore exterior building elements, upgrade mechanical systems, and upgrade life safety and handicapped accessibility. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Prospect Hill Tower Renovation |
The City's Capital Projects and Planning Department will rehabilitate and stabilize the Prospect Hill Tower by replacing the upper level floor slab, resetting parapet stones, restoring doors and ornamental iron stairs, repointing the facade, and repairing the exterior stairwell. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | Somerville Museum - Capital Improvements |
The Somerville Historical Society will complete the Somerville Museum's ADA accessibility project by purchasing a wheelchair lift and undertake major environmental improvements to preserve the Museum's collection. |
03/26/2015 |
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Somerville | SHC Better Homes Program FY15 |
The Somerville Homeless Coalition will provide rental assistance to 9 disabled and formerly homeless households in Somerville. CPA funds are needed to cover the gap between market rents in Somerville and funds provided by HUD. |
02/12/2015 |
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Somerville | Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Appropriation FY15 |
Appropriation to Somerville's Affordable Housing Trust |
01/22/2015 |
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Somerville | Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church Bell Tower |
Additional funds to close a budget gap for the CPA-funded project to restore the bell tower of the building at 404 Broadway, the former Winter Hill Congregational Church now owned by Vida Real. |
06/28/2023 |