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From YouTube: Madison Park Development Corporation Ribbon Cutting
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Madison Park Development Corporation has been creating and expanding economic and opportunities for low and moderate income families since 1966. They continue to provide opportunities for Roxbury residents by cutting the ribbon to their new building, featuring affordable residential housing and commercial spaces.
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B
Three
years
ago
we
were,
we
were
all
gathered
here
celebrating
the
grand
opening
of
the
tropical
foods
market
that
day
really
marked
a
transformation
in
this
community
that
land
has
has
sat
vacant
for
decades
through
because
of
this
urban
renewal
process
here
in
this
community,
and
that
was
the
first
development
on
that
site.
This
is
the
second
and
the
third
is
an
office
building
sort
of
behind
me
at
the
corner
of
maleic,
a
School
of
Art
in
Washington.
B
Street
is
a
third
site
where
we
plan
to
build
an
office
building
so
hopefully
were
announcing
something
with
a
leader
this
year.
The
tropical
foods,
as
you
know,
was
a
family-owned
business
started
over
50
years
ago
by
Grande
Gary
senior
is
his
sons.
Now
Mandy
and
Ron
jr.
now
operate
that
community
driven
business.
B
It
provides
a
high
quality,
neighborhood
supermarket
and
they're
employing
a
hundred
and
thirty-five
people,
mostly
local
residents
across
the
street
you'll
see
under
construction
or
Baraka,
is
building
a
new
Marriott,
Residence,
Inn
and
and
also
rental
housing,
and
that
will
come
online
later
this
year.
So
really
lots
of
exciting
things
happening
at
this
gateway
to
Dudley
square
Madison.
Park
has
had
a
long
history
of
being
an
anchor
institution
in
lower
Roxbury
for
over
50
years,
we're
proud
of
our
community
organizing
roots.
B
We
know
that
Roxbury
really
is
a
great
place
to
live
to
work,
to
raise
a
family
in
to
shop,
we're
building
and
maintaining
quality,
affordable
housing
is
a
major
part
of
what
we
do.
We
take
a
real
holistic
approach
to
community
development,
we're
offering
arts
and
cultural
programming
and
Hibernian
Hall
civic
engagement
through
the
rocks
boat
coalition,
violence
prevention
and
partnership
with
the
city
of
Boston's
trauma
initiative
over
65
youth
have,
after
school
or
summer
jobs
through
our
youth
development,
youth
leadership,
workforce
development
programs.
B
Another
building
that
we
own
in
Dulles
we're
21
over
Washington,
best
hospitality,
training
and
building
pathways
our
ground
for
tenants,
they're,
doing
job
training
and
economic
development
for
residents
here
in
the
community,
helping
them
find
employment
opportunities.
Also
in
that
building,
we
did
a
ribbon-cutting
about
two
weeks
ago
with
Daley
table
and
they
are
an
affordable
supermarket
grocery
small
grocery
store.
B
So
we've
been
really
active
here
in
commercial
development
for
over
20
years,
and
you
wonder
so
what
is
the
CDC
doing
commercial
development?
Well,
we
have
over
3,000
residents,
and
so
they
either
sided
of
these
four
at
all
and
around
this
neighborhood,
so
that
so
the
success
of
the
business
district
really
is
critical
to
all
of
us.
The
opening
of
this
new
next
income
housing
took
a
lot
of
hard
work.
It's
something
we
can
all
be
proud
of.
It's
a
great
example
of
public
and
private
partnership.
B
The
project
couldn't
have
happened
without
the
support
of
our
government
leaders,
our
financial
partners
that
you'll
hear
from
today.
The
development
team
deserves
a
lot
of
recognition
for
its
hard
work.
Our
engineers
and
architects
had
to
deal
with
a
number
of
structural
challenges
of
this
old
historic
building.
It
was
actually
three
separate
buildings.
B
They
learned
along
the
way,
and
literally
they
rebuild
that
front
facade
brick
by
brick
and
doing
all
of
this
in
a
historically
significant
in
adding
this
building
to
the
the
National
Register
of
Historic,
Places,
sort
of
complementing
the
very
historic
Doug,
the
historic
district
across
the
street.
You
know,
you
might
know,
is
a
colonial
cemetery
where
colonial
governors
are
buried
so.
C
B
Is
all
very
important
that
we
kind
of
preserve
the
historic
character
and
richness
of
this
community
I
want
to
thank
the
Roxbury
strategic
master
plan,
Oversight
Committee
and
our
parcel
10
project,
Review
Committee
for
their
hard
work
over
the
years
and
support
for
the
project.
The
community
monitoring
committee
worked
with
us
to
ensure
that
construction,
jobs
and
economic
benefits
of
the
project
were
shared
with
local
residents,
workers
and
women
of
color.
B
We
want
to
give
special
thanks
to
our
neighbors,
both
the
business
community
and
our
residential
community,
who
dealt
with
all
the
noise,
the
traffic,
the
dust
issues
that
construction
brings
we're
proud
to
say
that
this
project
has
some
of
the
best
jobs
numbers
in
the
city.
We
exceeded
the
goal
from
minority
jobs,
with
64%
of
the
construction
work
going
to
people
of
color
40.
B
43%
to
Boston
residents
and
5%
to
women
in
terms
of
contracts,
38%
of
the
construction
contracts
went
to
minority-owned
businesses
and
19%
to
women-owned
businesses,
the
largest
being
of
a
contract
with
Terra
construction.
Let
me
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
the
building
so
on
floors.
2
through
4
you'll
find
30
apartments,
a
mix
of
Studio
one
and
two
and
three-bedroom
units.
We
have
a
little
bit
of
everything
in
this
building.
Nine
of
the
units
are
unrestricted
market
rate
units
and
they're.
B
All
occupied
six
units
are
have
Boston,
Housing,
Authority
vouchers
associated
with
them,
so
residents
paid
30%
of
their
income
and
the
mint
the
rest
of
15
or
so
is
a
mix
of
affordable
units.
We
had
about
1500
applicants
for
those
affordable
units.
It
said
this
is
truly
a
mixed
income
building
and
the
first
and
it's
kind
developed
by
Madison
Park.
B
The
ground-floor
we
are
today
is
in
is
three
commercial
spaces
and
we're
pleased
to
announce
that
one
of
the
tenants
will
be
the
clubhouse
network
they're,
a
global
nonprofit
serving
thousands
of
youth
around
the
world,
they're
opening
their
flagship
Clubhouse.
Here
it's
a
free
after-school
program
for
teens
to
express
themselves
creatively
through
technology
and
stem
or
rather
steam.
When
you
had
the
a
in
there
and
for
arts,
they
will
offer
a
clubhouse
to
career
programs
to
prepare
and
connect
our
talented
youth
with
the
jobs
of
all
right.
B
Here
and
they're
you
know
so
so
talk
to
them
about
their
new,
exciting
new
location.
Here,
the
next
phase,
as
I
mentioned.
This
is
a
three
phase.
Development
is
that
development
at
the
corner
of
Washington
mell
Nia,
our
leasing
agents
have
condiment
or
marketing
that
office
space.
We
hope
to
announce
something
later
this
year.
So
let
me
introduce
our
next
speaker,
Brian
golden.
We
are
honored
to
have
awesome,
planning
and
development
director
Brian
golden
with
us
today,
as
our
work
with
the
BPD.
B
D
Thank
You
Jean
and
thank
you
all
for
visiting
this
morning.
It's
a
great
pleasure
for
us
to
be
playing
a
role
in
the
ceremony
today.
We
think
Jean
panada.
We
think
the
medicine
Park
Development
Corporation.
We
think
in
a
very
special
way
state
representative,
byron,
rushing
who,
in
the
2013-2014
timeframe,
was
helping
us
so
so
cooperatively,
so
constructively
assembled
the
pieces
from
from
a
legal
and
a
bureaucratic
and
a
financing
standpoint
to
make
sure
that
the
fruit
we
see
born
today,
I
came
into
being
so
thanks.
D
So
much
represented
rushing
for
all
you
did
a
few
years
ago
we
began
to
assemble
the
the
complicated
pieces
that
allowed
us
to
become
a
reality
thanks
again
to
the
city,
councillor,
Aneesa,
sorry,
George
and
I
think
we
were
just
joined
by
state
senators
on
your
chain,
the
DEA's
up
in
the
front
row.
So
thanks
so
much
for
being
here
senator
and
for
all.
D
Thank
you
to
financing
partners,
eastern
bank
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts,
mass
development,
redstone
equity
partners,
TD
Bank,
and
again,
all
the
staff
at
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency,
who
spent
many
years
putting
putting
this
project
together
again:
Dana
Whiteside,
who
is
just
such
a
key
player
in
the
neighborhood
and
at
City
Hall.
We
thank
you
for
your
honor.
D
This
is
so
exciting
for
us,
because
this
is
a
Boston
planning.
Development
agency
parcel
that's
been
dormant
for
many
decades,
and,
and
it
is
a
thrill
for
us
to
see
it
now
hosts
so
much
life,
there's
so
much
vitality.
Here
now
housing,
the
the
tropical
food
supermarkets
soon
to
be
commercial
space
right
here,
where
we're
sitting
there
is
vibrancy
being
produced
on
this
side
only
dreamed
of
up
until
a
few
years
ago.
D
So,
thanks
for
all
who
played
a
role
in
making
this
again
reality,
we're
excited
now
to
open
30
brand
new
homes
here
in
Lowell,
Roxbury
9
Williams
is
helping
us
achieve
our
housing
goals.
Mayor
mayor,
Marty
Walsh
has
an
ambitious
goal
for
creation
of
housing,
with
a
special
eye
toward
creating
affordable
housing,
we're
building
more
high
quality,
affordable
units
across
the
city.
We're.
D
The
creation
of
again
7,000
square
feet
of
the
commercial
space
here
on
the
ground.
It's
going
to
bring
even
more
vibrancy
into
a
community
that
is
growing
by
leaps
and
bounds.
9
Williams
is
the
second
phase
of
parcel
tenant.
We
celebrated
the
opening
of
the
first
phase,
the
new
home
of
tropical
foods
just
a
few
years
ago,
and
just
a
couple
weeks
ago,
as
Jean
mentioned,
we
open
daily
table
just
down
the
street.
D
D
Nine
million
dollars
will
be
spent
here
over
the
next
few
years
on
road
improvements
in
the
Dudley
main
district
there'll
be
a
multi-year
Mel,
Nia
cash
redesign,
Complete
Streets
and
seventy
three
million
dollars
going
towards
a
Dearborn,
STEM
Academy
fourteen
point:
two
million
dollars
going
to
a
doubly
branch
library
and
much
more
to
come.
So
this
is
an
exciting
day
for
lower
Roxbury
and
for
the
new
residents,
who
will
call
this
great
community
in
this
building
home?
On
behalf
of
Mayor
Walsh
again,
we
look
forward
to
seeing
this
community
to
continue
to
grow
and
thrive.
B
Thank
you
Brian.
Our
next
speaker
is
representing
all
of
our
state
funders
and
state
agencies
involved
in
the
project,
we're
fortunate
to
have
a
number
of
state
agencies
and
economic
development
agencies
that
understand
the
important
work
that
CDC's
do
in
our
neighborhoods
shown
a
willingness
to
work
creatively
with
us
on
the
projects.
Like
nine
Williams,
we
took
advantage
of
several
state
funding
programs.
We
used
a
1.1
million
dollar
brownfields
grant
from
as
development
to
clean
up
the
site.
The
site
benefited
from
a
1.5
million
dollar
MathWorks,
grant
that
helped
build
the
site
work.
B
The
shared
parking
new,
curb
cuts
on
Washington
Williams
mill,
Nia
Cass,
Boulevard,
Mass
Development,
issued
a
nine
point.
Five
million
dollar
tax
exempt
bond
on
half
of
the
project
and
mass
housing
has
the
permanent
mortgage
on
the
project,
so
lots
of
city
agents,
state
agencies
working
together
to
make
this
all
happen.
They've
all
been
terrific
partners.
Mass
development
has
done
several
projects
with
Madison,
Park
and
they're
terrific
partners.
So
please
welcome
to
the
podium
from
mass
development
day.
Bancroft
senior
vice
president.
E
They
actually
would
love
to
be
here
today,
but
they
are
actually
back
at
the
offices
Dave's
our
board
meeting,
and
they
will
be
approving
more
financing
options
for
projects.
Just
like
this,
what
I
would
love
to
say?
Is
it
what
a
difference
five
years
makes
it
was
actually
July
19th
2013
the
temperature
was
99
degrees
and
right
up
there,
we
had
a
groundbreaking
for
what
would
be
the
new
sort
of
tropical
Foods
supermarket,
which
would
then
open
this
space
up
to
turn
it
into
housing.
So
five
years
ago
it
was
99
degrees.
E
Today
it
is
26
and
feels
like
14.
They
were
out
there
with
assault
and
removing
the
ice
from
the
sidewalks
here,
but
I
think
what
it
goes
to
show
is
the
transformation
that
dedicated
staffs
and
organizations
and
city
agencies
working
together
can
change
a
neighborhood
and
change
the
lives
of
the
people
which
who
live
in
those
neighborhoods
and.
E
Building
all
kinds
of
projects
like
this,
but
the
credit
then
goes
to
the
people
in
the
neighborhood
who
push
for
that,
and
so
you
really
need
to
also
give
yourselves
a
lot
of
applause,
because
it
wasn't
for
your
vision
and
your
ability
to
sort
of
push
organizations
and
push
the
administration's
to
say
that
we
need
this.
We
need
places
for
people
to
live.
We
need
places
for
people
to
work.
We
are
a
city
that
is
on
the
move.
We
are
a
city
that
is
transforming
itself.
E
We
are
a
neighborhood
that
is
transforming
itself,
but
we
want
to
be
able
to
retain
what
makes
this
neighborhood
Dudley
square.
What
makes
this
neighborhood
home
to
so
many
people
who
were
born
and
raised
here
and
that's
what
master
Melman
is
committed
to
through
our
transformative
redevelopment
programs
through
our
brownfields
programs
and
through
our
various
funding
sources,
that
we.
E
Like
Madison
Park,
as
well
as
some
of
the
other
CDC's
in
the
city,
it's
the
ability
to
come
in
here.
Look
at
me,
but
and
help
people
make
their
dreams
and
their
reality
of
being
able
to
stay
in
those
neighborhoods.
A
success.
So
I
get
to
come
up
here
and
so
say
some
nice
words
about
what
we
did
which
money
we
put
in.
But
it
really
is
up
to
you
folks
to
sort
of.
E
We
have
been
involved
with
it
from
everything
we've
done
with
Madison
Park
in
terms
of
done,
the
Greenville
or
the
Highland
homes,
and
what's
going
on
up
at
the
old
Bartlett
station,
which
part
of
the
neighborhood
the
fro
third
men's
building?
What's
going
on
across
the
street,
at
the
new
Marriott
tropical
foods
being
able
to
sustain
itself
and
build
itself
a
new
facility
for
the
neighbors
to
shop
in
this
is
what
it's
all
about.
E
Transformation
is
not
a
top-down
high
heavy
way
of
telling
a
neighborhood
or
people
wanted
this
to
do
it's
a
way
of
the
people
on
the
ground
telling
us
what?
What
is
that
we
need
to
do
so.
Once
again,
I
would
like
to
thank
Madison
Park
for
its
vision.
Its
partnership
I
want
to
thank
all
of
our
other
partners,
our
staples
city
partners,
and
the
congratulations
to
each
and
every
one
of
you
who
call
this
home
into
looking
forward
to
working
with
you
on
your
next
project.
Thanks.
B
Thank
you
David,
so
this
all
started
many
many
years
ago,
when
we
teamed
together
with
the
folks
at
tropical
foods
and
responded
to
a
request
for
proposal
from
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
back
then
to
to
respond
to
this
parcel
tent
development.
So
I
really
want
to
acknowledge
Ron,
Gary's
senior
and
Ron
Gary
jr.,
who
are
in
the
back
Rob
Gary
jr.
did
all
the
heavy
lifting,
but
your
dad
was
here
fifty
years
ago,
so
give
them
a
round
of
applause.
B
My
next
speaker
is
Jan
Miller
from
eastern
bank
eastern
bank
is
a
great
Community
Partner
and
certainly
no
stranger
to
Dudley
square.
The
bank
has
financed
several
Madison
Park
properties,
residential
and
commercial.
Over
the
past
15
years,
Eastern
Bank
purchased
the
bond
issued
by
mass
development
east
of
Meg
as
a
major
philanthropic
partner
as
well
Madison,
Park
and
many
other
nonprofits
in
the
Boston
area.
So
please
welcome
and
join
me
in
welcoming
Jim
Miller
vice
chairman
and
chief
commercial
banking
officer.
G
Thank
You
Jean
Eastern's
relationship
with
Madison
Park
goes
back
more
than
a
decade
that
each
has
mentioned.
We've
been
fortunate
to
partner,
with
Massachusetts
largest
and
one
of
the
nation's
oldest
CDC's,
to
assist
in
the
revitalization
and
redevelopment
of
the
Roxbury
community.
So
we're
really
happy
to
be
involved
and
happy
to
be
here
today.
I've
really
pleased
to
be
part
of
this
latest
project
providing
the
commercial
space
of
30
units
much-needed
housing,
mixed
income,
housing
in
the
Madison
Area
Community
Development
lending
is
part
of
Easterns
DNA.
G
G
We
do
it
because
it's
the
right
thing
to
do
in
our
communities
and
by
the
way,
it's
also
a
really
good
business,
particularly
when
working
with
quality
people
like
Jean
and
the
staff
at
Madison.
Park
I'd
be
remiss
if
I
didn't
acknowledge
the
folks
in
our
shop.
That
really
did
all
the
work.
I
got
the
privilege
of
going
to
groundbreakings
and
ribbon-cuttings,
but
the
rest
of
the
folks
in
the
shop
are
the
ones
that
really
do
all
the
heavy
lifting
Pennington
relationship.
G
B
The
financing
of
the
building
also
involved
is,
you
might
have,
can
tell
federal
and
state
historic
tax
credits
and
we
get
equity
from
selling
those
credits
to
investors
in
low-income
housing,
tax
credit
equity.
Excuse
me,
redstone,
Equity
Partners
is
a
nationally
recognized
real
estate
fund
manager
specializing
in
affordable
housing.
This
is
Madison
parks,
second
project
with
redstone
they're,
a
terrific
partner.
Please
join
me
in
welcoming
true
foster
director
of
acquisitions.
F
Thank
You,
Jean
and
good
morning,
everybody,
as
Jean
mentioned,
my
name,
is
true:
foster
with
redstone
Equity
Partners.
We,
along
with
our
investor
partner,
TD
Bank
community
Capital,
Group,
very
proud
to
have
invested
just
over
six
and
a
half
million
dollars,
federal
locum
housing,
tax
credits
and
federal
historic
tax
credits
to
assist
in
transforming
this
labor
neighborhood
landmark
into
30
beautiful
apartments
that
hopefully
most
of
you
will
have
a
chance
to
see
shortly.
I
first
stepped
into
this
building
about
three
years
ago
to
this
day
and
thought
wow.
What
potential
there
was
here.
F
F
For
those
of
you
who
do
not
have
the
privilege
to
see
the
penthouse
level
in
all
its
glory
prior
to
demolition,
let's
just
say
that
blue
tarps
hanging
from
skylights
draining
off
into
trash
cans
at
each
corner
is
not
the
cornerstone
of
an
ideal
rain.
Water
collection
system
fast
forward
a
year
to
my
first
visit
during
construction
and
upon
entering
I,
was
immediately
struck
by
how
great
it
was
an
aside
and
I
quickly
realized
it's,
because
there
was
no
roof.
A
F
To
be
positive,
I'm
thinking,
progress
fast
forward
again
today
and
well,
you
know
the
WoW
is
here:
I
never
could
have
imagined
such
an
incredible
transformation.
I
want
to
congratulate
Madison,
Park
Catholic
construction
on
a
phenomenal
job,
with
an
incredibly
challenging
building
structurally
many
other
ways.
F
Today,
it's
ever
so
important
with
the
lack
of
resources.
We
have
to
work
with
to
continue
to
find
strong
partners
and
to
show
what
can
be
done
when
we
put
our
minds
together.
So
congratulations
to
the
rest
of
the
team
again
and
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
be
involved
in
such
a
fantastic
project.
B
B
So
our
next
speaker
is
Aris
Boston
city
councilor,
Kim
Janie.
She
represents
district
7
she's,
a
lifelong
Boston
live
life
on
Roxbury
resident
and
a
citywide
leader
that
brings
strong
economic
development
background
to
our
job
as
city
councilor
she's
on
the
job,
as
you
heard,
has
hit
the
ground
running.
B
I
ran
into
her
actually
on
several
occasions,
knocking
on
doors
at
Madison,
Park,
Village,
so
I
think
she
knocked
on
every
door
in
Madison,
Park
in
Richard
she's
been
a
strong
advocate
for
local
businesses
and
she
understands
how
important
projects
like
this
are
for
the
neighborhood
and
for
the
city
she's,
the
first
woman
to
be
representing
district
7.
So
please
give
her
a
warm
welcome.
C
C
My
name
is
Kim
Janey
and
I
am
proud
to
serve
and
represent
Roxbury
the
neighborhood,
the
neighborhood
that
I
love
the
neighborhood
that
I
grew
up
in
district
7
also
includes
South
in
Dorchester
in
Fenway
before
I
go
any
further
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
the
electors
in
the
room
and
joined
by
my
colleague
and
sister
and
service
councillor
Aneesa
asabi
George.
We
have
here
also
representative,
byron,
rushing
and
senator
song
and
chain
Diaz.
Who
is
my
senator?
Please
give
them
a
round.
C
This
building
that
we
are
in
was
once
an
award-winning
carriage
Factory.
It
will
contain
now
21,
affordable
and
nine
market
rate
rental
homes,
adding
to
the
affordable
housing
available
in
Roxbury
is
so
critical
in
allowing
us
to
stay
as
president.
So
I
commend
you
on
that.
Thank
you.
As
chair
of
the
Small
Business
and
Consumer
Affairs
Committee
on
the
Boston
City
Council
I'm
glad
that
this
space
will
also
be
home
to
a
7,000
square
feet,
everything
to
commercial
space.
It
looks
beautiful,
I
remember
when
the
old
tropical
is
here.
C
This
is
a
very
nice
building
very
pleased
that
we
still
have
tropical
in
our
community
I'm
hopeful
that
this
will
be
an
opportunity
for
new
and
innovative
businesses
to
create
the
desperately
needed
jobs
that
we
need
here
in
our
community.
I
am
also
chair
of
the
arts
and
culture
and
Special
Events,
Committee
and
I
vice-chair
the
Education
Committee.
So
I
am
especially
thrilled
that
one
of
the
tenants
will
be
a
nonprofit
that
is
committed
to
both
education
and
the
arts.
C
The
clubhouse
network
is
a
Boston
based
nonprofit
organization
that
provides
a
range
of
arts
and
technology
learning
for
youth
and
young
adults
out
there
for
out-of-school
time.
This
is
an
excellent
opportunity
to
engage
our
young
people
and
keep
them
off
the
streets
and
get
them
involved
in
stem
and
steam
programming
for
after
school.
As
a
young
person
growing
up
in
this
neighborhood
I.
Remember
the
stores
that
were
here,
the
businesses
that
were
here
and
how
vibrant
our
community
was
back
then
right
now
we're
in
a
transition
period
and
and
I
see.
B
H
But
there's
a
fair
bit
of
public
money
involved
in
these
projects,
and
so
I
just
want
to
remind
everybody
that
it's
your
and
mine,
your
neighbor's
tax
dollars
that
make
projects
like
this
possible
and
that's
what
we
do.
That's
what
we
do
when
we
send
in
a
little
bit
of
our
hard-earned
dollars
to
the
public
pod
is,
we
are
making
possible
justice
and
that's
what
love
looks
like
in
public.
H
This
is
love
for
our
neighbors
love
for
our
community
and
we're
going
to
be
able
to
keep
people
in
this
community
who
have
worked
hard
to
make
it
great
over
the
years.
They're
gonna
live
in
a
place
where
they
can
get
on
transportation
to
get
to
work,
or
they
can
get
access
to
healthy
food
where
they
can
go
around
the
corner
and
avail
themselves
of
arts
and
support
local
businesses
down
the
street
at
black
market.
This
is
what
love
looks
like
in
public,
so
proud
to
be
a
part
of
it.
Thank
you
so
much.
B
I'm
sorry,
why
I'm
a
happy
kid
have
we're
really
thrilled
that
you're
getting
that
Bob
bill
passed?
Oh
we've
been
working
on
that
all
year
we
passed
a
housing,
Bob
Billy,
every
five
years
of
the
state
and
over
a
billion
dollar
bomb
down
and
I
think
we're
the
envy
of
many
states
around
the
country
because
of
the
amount
of
resources
that
this
state
puts
into
housing
programs.
Our
next
speaker
is
a
longtime
historian
of
Roxbury
someone
who
probably
loves
Roxbury
and
its
history
more
than
anybody
that
I
know
he's
been.
He
was
a.
B
I
A
I
Loma
Roxburgh
was
a
neighborhood
that
the
city
decided
to
do
cheap
urban
renewal
on,
and
that
is
that
they
didn't
spend
any
money
and
waited
for
all
the
buildings
to
eventually
be
abandoned
or
burned
down
and
never
replace
them.
It
is
hard
to
imagine
the
city,
a
city
administration
like
the
one
that
existed
here,
that
I
think
we've
even
that
we
existed
here
in
the
60s.
So
when
we
went
door
to
door,
most
people
actually
had
given
up
on
whether
they
would
be
able
to
stay
in
this
neighborhood
and
what
they
talked
about.
I
The
most
was
how
dirty
it
was
now.
The
fact
that
we
had
a
park
there
was
a
Madison
Park.
It
was
a
big
square
talk
like
Blackstone
the
Franklin,
and
they
complained
about
the
fact
that
suburban
eyes
would
drive
into
Boston
to
work
and
swing
by
here
and
from
dump
their
trash
there's
every
bump.
Anyone
remember
that
I
just
divided
the
room
by
8.
I
Do
the
people
they
want
to
pay
me
dumping
fees
in
their
towns
and
because
of
that,
of
course,
other
people
saw
like
contractors.
So
it
was
an
okay
place
to
dump
in
and
I'm
dwelling
on
this,
because
I
think
it
is
so
important
that
we
understand
the
problem.
Progress
needs
in
this
community
and
what
black
people
can
do
when
they
organize.
So
we
decided
to
make
an
example
of
all
that
trash
by
piling
it
all.
I
We
told
everybody
as
an
example,
so
people
can
see
what
it
was
like
and
and
decided
to
burn.
We
let
everybody
know
what
we're
going
to
do
it
and
we
set
on
fire
the
fire
bomb
was
there.
Fire
was
out
in
five
minutes,
but
fortunately
a
group
of
young
people
decided
to
pull
the
hose
from
fire
and
they
were
all
men
and
to
pull
the
host
of
all
of
these
white
firemen
midnight
in
the
plane.
We
were
doing
this.
You
can
count
the
black
firemen
in
the
city
on
one
and
the
photographers
from
the.
I
The
most
important
thing
about
that
was
that
a
few
residents
came
to
us
organizers
and
realize
that
we
were
serious
and
they
believed
that
there
was
a
way
to
save
the
dis
neighborhood.
One
of
them
was
Ralph.
Smith
and
I
can
remember
Ralph
coming
up
to
me
and
he
said
I
want
to
work
with
somebody
as
crazy
as
you
want,
and.
A
I
I
Madison
Park
now
I
say
all
of
that,
because
I
want
everyone
here
to
understand
how
important
community
organizing
is
none
of
this
real
stuff
happens.
If
you
think
people
do
it
from
the
top
down,
if
it
was
up
to
the
top
down,
there
would
be
no
Negroes
here
understand
that
understand
that
it
would
not
be
here
and
who
was
the
organizing
that
got
Madison
Park
develop,
which
also
was
the
organizing
that
allowed
you
to
have
any
land
outside.
I
This
will
window
that
you
could
build
on,
because
the
other
major
organizing
that
happened
from
the
bottom
up
was
stopping
I
95.
Never
forget
that
if
you
were
sitting
in
this
building
when
the
top-down
transportation
planners
in
this
state
had
their
way,
you
would
be
looking
at
a
highway.
You
wouldn't
be
looking
at
a
highway
literally
five
feet
away
from
this
window,
and
that
was
the
highway.
That
was
to
connect
the
I-95
to
the
southeast
expressway
and
called
the
inner
belt,
and
they
had
bought
the
land.
Everybody
said
you
can't
stop
it.