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For the Durans, buying a home with ONE Mortgage symbolizes that their journey from the Dominican Republic is complete

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.”

Alland Pierre and Lisa Heughan are two of the new residents at One Gurney Street, and the connections they’ve made symbolize the vision Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services Executive Director Pat Flaherty had when she first started dreaming about this trash-strewn site in the 1990s, known as Parcel 25.

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.