Featured Projects

Millinocket Memorial Library completed renovations in 2020, repositioning itself as a state-of-the-art learning center and a vibrant community hub where other organizations can use the library facilities to provide vital services.

In 2008, River Valley Co-op completed the construction of its first location in Northampton, MA. Immediately the Co-op energized the area, receiving overwhelming community support and strong consumer demand for its locally sourced produce and food items. River Valley Co-op’s second store is in Easthampton, approximately seven miles south from its Northampton store and well suited to expand the Co-op’s circle of consumers, taking pressure off the operations of the overcrowded Northampton store. The new store will utilize energy efficient systems and green technology that will power 100% of its energy needs. Like the first location, the Easthampton store will be a welcoming community space featuring an extensive variety of locally sourced produce, meat, seafood, dairy, in-house baked goods, and grocery products.

Farm Fresh Rhode Island, a nonprofit based in Providence with a mission to connect farmers and consumers and strengthen the local food system, celebrated the opening of its new home, the Food Hub, in September 2020. Located in the Valley neighborhood of Providence, the Food Hub houses Farm Fresh RI’s programs and operations, including a year-round farmers market. Space is also leased to food and farm-related small businesses, and the site includes a half-acre of publicly accessible greenspace featuring beautiful sustainable, native plantings.

Swift Factory, formerly M. Swift & Sons Gold Leaf Factory, opened in the fall of 2020 after a 10-year community engagement, fundraising, planning and construction effort. Historically a major employer in Northeast Hartford, Swift Factory is now a vibrant neighborhood hub for employment, local entrepreneurship, and community services. 

Holtzer Park will offer 62 new affordable rental apartments to the Jamaica Plain/Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston. The project is part of the multi-phased masterplan to construct three new affordable housing buildings and redevelop 125 Amory Street, an existing affordable senior housing complex with 199 homes.

Located on Main Street in Yarmouth, the construction site contained an obsolete motel which was demolished. When complete, the Residences at Yarmouth Gardens will be a pair of new two-story buildings, offset from each other and oriented perpendicular to Route 28 so only the narrowest façade faces the street. The buildings are designed to be highly efficient in use of energy and water. The property will also include a new bus shelter, a small playground, covered bicycle racks, and patio space at the rear of the property. When complete, there will a 7.6% increase in affordable housing available in the town.

Two vacant historic buildings – the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company and the Mason Square Firehouse – were rehabilitated to create 60 new affordable rental apartments in the Mason Square area of Springfield, MA. MHIC long-time partner First Resource Company converted the 55,000-square-foot manufacturing building into 45 apartments, and the former fire station contains 15 apartments.

Through an increase of $655,000 to an existing predevelopment loan from MHIC, The Neighborhood Developers, Inc. (TND) will cover costs associated with consolidating the 210 Broadway property with several other developments in Chelsea, MA, collectively known as the Chelsea Homes I/Broadway project.

Community Servings, a Jamaica Plain-based nonprofit, tripled its capacity through renovations to its existing building and a major addition. In 2020, MHIC provided Community Servings with a $3.25 million loan to prepay a higher interest loan, saving $400,000 in debt service payments that can now be invested in programs and serve as a buffer against impacts to operating revenues or expenses due to COVID-19.