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Growing up in Haverhill, Mayor James Fiorentini has many memories of the city’s downtown. He remembers taking the bus from his parents’ home to visit his grandparents at the store and restaurant they owned. On the way home, he’d stop at F.W. Woolworth to buy goldfish food and eat a banana split at the long Woolworth’s lunch counter. This is why Fiorentini and so many others are excited when you ask them about Harbor Place at the corner of Merrimack and Main. “We waited a long time for this,” Fiorentini said. “Most people can’t remember when Woolworth’s was not an abandoned eyesore.”

Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Matthew S. Sosik to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP).

BROCKTON --- Urban Land Institute Boston/New England, MHP and the City of Brockton recently convened a technical assistance panel to help formulate potential development options for an unused state property at Massasoit Community College.

MHP’s Center for Housing Data has added a new feature to DataTown: the ability to make data comparisons between communities.

BOSTON --- ​In 2019, MHP and the non-profit Urban Edge have collaborated on two affordable housing efforts that will add new affordable housing to the Egleston Crossing area and stabilize scores of existing units in the same neighborhood for years to come.

SPRINGFIELD --- Drawing upon three decades of experience making loans to strengthen Springfield neighborhoods, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) recently closed on a $700,000 loan to support the preservation of St. James Commons.