Community Preservation Coalition

Success Stories


	Pilot Grove Apartments, Stow Stow used $350,000 in CPA funds to provide funding to preserve the affordability restrictions on 37 apartments that were at risk due to expiring restrictions.
	Cable Mills Adaptive Reuse Project, Williamstown Previously a vacant mill complex, Cable Mills is undergoing renovation to create a residential complex that will include 12 units of affordable housing.
	Lake Terrace Apartments, Chatham In a fantastic example of CPA’s leveraging power, the town of Chatham used $375,000 in CPA funds to leverage a total of $9 million for the creation of 50 affordable housing units in this seaside community.
	Main Street Housing Project, Amherst Eleven new housing units in an area of high demand for affordable housing.
	89 Oxbow, Wayland In a great example of beating swords into plowshares, land that once housed lethal missiles is now the location of an impressive green affordable housing development, funded in part by Wayland’s CPA program.
	School Employee Housing, Nantucket Twelve units of affordable housing were built specifically for Nantucket's teachers.
	Eliakim's Way, West Tisbury West Tisbury, a small community on Martha’s Vineyard, has used its CPA funds to develop a number of affordable housing options for residents over the years, but its recent Eliakim’s Way project challenges the convential wisdom on community housing.
	Town Hall Rehabilitation, Ashland Many CPA communities have used CPA funds to rehabilitate spectacular historic Town Halls, such as Ashland.
	Sheep Hill Farm, Williamstown The town of Williamstown granted CPA funds for the restoration of Sheep Hill Farm’s dairy and horse barns dating to the 1810-1830 period, and the relocation of a historic barrel-stave silo from a neighboring property to replace an identical one that collapsed.
	Thacher Island Preservation Project, Rockport Thacher Island, with its twin 19th century granite lighthouses, is a National Historic Landmark – one of fewer than 2,400 in the nation. This CPA project involved rehabilitation of the Whistle House, also called the Fog Signal building, along with other structures on this historic island
	Historic Library Preservation, Lenox Using CPA funds, the town of Lenox was able to purchase the historic Lenox library from a private library association in financial trouble.
	Paul Revere Bell, Plymouth CPA funds allowed for the restoration of Plymouth’s historic town bell, first cast by Paul Revere in 1801 and recast in 1896. In exchange for its grant of funds to repair the bell, the town gained a perpetual access easement to the belltower of First Parish Church, the private church where the bell hangs.