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  Mayor Announces 3D Campaign for Triple Deckers!

   A $3M investment will give triple-decker owners the support they need to renovate their homes.
  

  
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  Mayor Menino Celebrates the Grand Opening of The Residences at Neponset Field

  On February 7, 2012, Mayor Thomas M. Menino cut the ribbon for a $10M elderly rental housing development.
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  Mayor Menino Announces Boston Business Hub

  Boston is making the process of starting or expanding a small business more predictable, efficient and convenient.  The Business Hub gives entrepreneurs a central access point to the City of Boston’s small business services and business development professionals.
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  Mayor Menino "Welcomes Home" 12 First-Time Homebuyers of Foreclosed Properties

  On September 10, 2011, Mayor Thomas M. Menino joined Evelyn Friedman, Director of the Department of Neighborhood Development (DND), and 12 first-time homebuyers of formerly foreclosed properties for a housewarming celebration on Rockwell Street in Dorchester. 
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  Mayor Menino Announces Winner in Deck the Windows Contest

  On December 20, 2011, Mayor Thomas M. Menino presented Elizabeth Hoenscheid, owner of Top It Off in West Roxbury, with the first prize in the Boston Main Streets Deck the Windows contest.
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  Boston Receives $20.5M HUD Grant to Transform Dorchester's Quincy Street Corridor

  On September 1, 2011, Mayor Thomas M. Menino joined U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan as HUD announced that Boston is receiving $20.5M to redevelop the Woodledge/Morrant Bay Apartments and revitalize Dorchester’s Quincy Street Corridor. Boston is one of just five cities nationwide to receive first-ever Implementation Grants under HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.

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  City-owned Land and Buildings for Sale

  DND offers City-owned property for sale. View our Requests for Proposals for land and buildings currently for sale, as well as our complete inventory of city property potentially suitable for development.

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  Mayor Menino’s Leading the Way Initiative Creates Record Levels of Housing in Boston

  The number of new housing developments in Boston neighborhoods is the best in six decades.

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  Think You Can't Afford a Home in Boston? THINK AGAIN!

  When you buy a foreclosed home in certain areas of the city, you may be eligible to receive up to $65,000.  
  

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  DND's Recovery Programs

  Since September of 2008, DND has been allocated $35.4 million in federal funds from HUD...
  

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  Looking to Buy a Foreclosed Home in Boston?

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  Mid-Dorchester Action Plan

  The Mid-Dorchester Action Plan is a joint planning initiative of DND and the BRA that Mayor Menino launched in summer 2008. 
  

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  Ending Homelessness in Boston

  The City is working on a comprehensive plan to end homelessness in Boston.

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  Boston Main Streets

  Boston Main Streets is a public-private initiative established by the Mayor Menino in 1995 to revitalize neighborhood commercial districts through local organizations. Main Streets is a comprehensive approach to providing merchant groups and community residents with the tools and information necessary for their commercial centers to compete in today's marketplace.

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Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

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Reports & Publications

• Consolidated Plan & Action Plan
• Real Estate Trends - 2011
• 2011 - Foreclosure Trends
• Distressed Buildings Reports
• Small Business Resource Guide
• Leading the Way