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Continuum of care in an intergenerational setting

St. John of God is a 291-unit intergenerational residential campus on the site of the former Archdiocesan Caritas Christi Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts. The seven-building campus was developed by the Planning Office for Urban Affairs in partnership with EA Fish Associates. The development includes service-enriched housing for seniors, mixed-income assisted living with a dementia care unit, a skilled nursing facility, a residence for people living with HIV/AIDS, family housing, and a neighborhood park. The development is approximately 58% affordable across the various program components. Nearly 100 mature shade trees were preserved on the five-acre campus during construction. The development was completed in two phases, in 2003 and 2006.

St. John of God is situated on land that was the Livermore family farmstead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From 1907 until the Planning Office acquired it in the late 1990s the property was the site of three different hospitals.



Developers: Planning Office for Urban Affairs
EA Fish Associates Architect:The Architectural Team
Contractor:Suffolk Construction
Manager: Peabody Properties, Inc.
Welch Healthcare and Retirement Group
Catholic Charities
Financing:
Citizens Bank
AIG SunAmerica
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
Department of Housing & Community Development
MassHousing
City of Boston:
Department of Neighborhood Development
Neighborhood Housing Trust
Boston Housing Authority
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