Lenox Apartments Renovation

This phased redevelopment effort consisted of renovating 12 buildings containing 285 residential units of affordable rental housing comprising 123 one-bedroom, 120 two-bedroom, and 42 three-bedroom units located in three-story walk-up buildings with full and partial basements. Upgrades to the 192,796 square foot property included masonry repairs, new decentralized heating and hot water systems, new security cameras, windows and exterior doors, life-safety improvements, installation of solar thermal panels on each building, new intercoms, fully renovated kitchens and bathrooms, ventilation and air quality improvements, in-unit washers and dryers, accessibility improvements, common area upgrades, dumpster enclosures, stair railings, and signage. The landscaping-originally designed by the distinguished Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm-was refreshed while continuing to honor the prominent Black Bostonians for whom the Lenox courtyards have been named for the past eighty years: William Monroe Trotter (d. 1934), founder of the Boston Guardian newspaper and Boston Equal Rights League; physician Dr. Andrew B. Lattimore who practiced medicine in the Lenox Street area, and veteran Edward A. Ditmus.

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