Chelsea Record
Chelsea: TND opens homes for young parents
CHELSEA --- With the support of the City of Chelsea, and other funding partners, The Neighborhood Developers has redeveloped a vacant site on Shawmut Street into four, two-bedroom homes. The newly constructed apartments at Lewis Latimer Place will soon provide homes for at-risk, or high-risk young pregnant or parenting families. The new apartments will provide affordable, energy efficient and healthy living located not far from the many amenities in downtown Chelsea. The home is named after Lewis Latimer, who was born in 1848 in a building that formerly occupied this site. The son of a runaway slave, Latimer executed the drawings for Alexander Graham Bell’s patent for the telephone and invented a carbon filament to make electric lights longer lasting and more affordable.