Groundbreaking held for Roxbury Crossing affordable housing building

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Saturday (November 12th, 2016) for the first phase of the Parcel 25 development project in Mission Hill, located directly across from the Roxbury Crossing MBTA Orange Line station. The first phase will create 40 affordable housing units as well as office and retail space on a formerly vacant parcel cleared in the 1960s to construct the unbuilt I-95 highway extension to Boston. A steel beam was signed at the groundbreaking ceremony and installed in the new five-story building's structural frame; the Phase 1A building's elevator core has topped off, and the frame has risen two full stories. The following are tweets from Saturday's groundbreaking ceremony:

Ground breaking @ Parcel25 #MissionHill lifting spirits this AM. Yuge props 2 MHNHS, @MBHPhousing. #bospoli #affordablehousing #TOD #econdev pic.twitter.com/vQKFLlJ0ZP

— Sonia Chang-Díaz (@SoniaChangDiaz) November 12, 2016

With our partners, Parcel 25 in #MissionHill will become affordable housing: 40 units for our low income & formerly homeless residents. pic.twitter.com/O3X46w8qiH

— Mayor Marty Walsh (@marty_walsh) November 13, 2016

Exciting morning with @marty_walsh and @jeffrey_sanchez at the Groundbreaking for Parcel 25 in #MissionHill! #BuildingaBetterBoston pic.twitter.com/zNOILZSBg0

— Boston's DND (@BostonNeighbor) November 12, 2016

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