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Community Benefits
Benefits of this
project to the Neighborhood and to the City of Boston include:
Increased job opportunitiesThe development will retain 23
permanent jobs and create 4 new jobs for the minority, women and
low-income residents of the neighborhood. Outreach for any new jobs will
include using agencies such as
Boston CareerLink,
JobNet, and WorkPlace
training centers.
- Retention of jobs and creation of new jobs at Mount Pleasant Home:
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Mount. Pleasant
Home Staffing: |
Current Positions |
Future positions |
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|
|
|
|
Management |
2 |
2 |
|
Service |
21 |
25 |
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Total
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23 |
27 |
- Mount Pleasant Home has
also offered to create an internship in elder services provision for local
interested residents and will work with the
Neighborhood Development
Corporation of Jamaica Plain (JPNDC) on employment training and job
placement
- The new addition will
provide clinic and office space on the ground floor to be leased long-term
to the Urban Medical Group, creating a new home for its practice and
permitting many residents to simply take the elevator down to see their
existing health care provider.
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Current Staffing
|
Projected Staffing
|
|
|
Positions
|
FTE
|
Onsite
|
Positions
|
FTE
|
Onsite
|
| Administrative |
20 |
20 |
15 |
20 |
23 |
15 |
| Clinical |
26 |
21 |
10 |
27 |
31 |
12 |
| Total |
46 |
41 |
25 |
47 |
52 |
27 |
- This project will create
approximately 67 construction related jobs.
Expanded housing
opportunities
Mount Pleasant
Home will provide 44 renovated bedrooms and create 16 new bedrooms, each
with private bath, for its 66% elderly low-income clients- the majority of
which are below 30% of median income. In addition, it will have a 12%
homeless set-aside. Though Mount Pleasant Home is currently occupied,
old mechanical systems, and small rooms make the existing housing less
than ideal. Currently, no affordability restrictions currently exist on
the development. The new development plans for Mount Pleasant Home will
preserve an important elderly housing facility and record affordability
restrictions on the development.
 Improved site is a neighborhood asset
Open to residents of Mount Pleasant, their families, and
neighbors. Mount Pleasant Home is seeking to transform 1.3 acres of
vacant, wooded property at its site in Jamaica Plain into a planned
community open space including a rain garden, pathways, and spaces for
passive recreation.
Local youth
involvement
Partnering with the Hyde Square Task Force, Mount Pleasant Home
residents, neighbors and local teenagers will work together to plan,
develop and maintain this unique urban ecosystem and at the same time
build and strengthen our community.Support for local businesses
The development is located
between the Mission Hill, Hyde Square and Jamaica Plain Centre business
areas. The residents will contribute to the use of local retail and
service establishments.
Public service
Mount
Pleasant Home regularly hosts community meetings such as The Bynner Street
Neighborhood Crime Watch in its large centrally located living room. |
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