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South End Community Development (SECD) established on June 4, 1964 to carry out a HUD-funded Demonstration Project. SECD Begins renovating 83 abandoned apartments in Boston's South End.

SECD reorganizes as Greater Boston Community Development (GBCD) and expands its work throughout metropolitan Boston.

Pioneering the use of tax-benefit syndication to finance affordable housing controlled by non-profits, GBCD assists lnquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) with its five-phase, 680-unit, $28 million Villa Victoria community in Boston's South End.

GBCD assists the America Park tenants council in Lynn, MA with the innovative conversion of a troubled 400-unit public housing project. King's Lynne, the new development, is a mixed-income complex.

Boston Housing Partnership, established with major GBCD assistance, organizes the redevelopment of approximately 1,600 dilapidated inner-city apartments by ten community development corporations.

GBCD completes its second homeownership development, 18 row houses for low and moderate-income families on Lawn Street in Boston's Back of the Hill neighborhood.

Tent City Corporation, with GBCD assistance, completes Tent City, a landmark 269-unit mixed-income apartment complex in Boston. GBCD reorganizes as The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB). TCB buys and renovates 95 Berkeley Street, Boston, as its home office and office space for other nonprofits. TCB buys Plumley Village, a 430-unit Worcester, MA family complex, where it institutes a broad range of human services.

TCB receives grant from Pew Charitable Trusts and opens office in Philadelphia.

TCB helps Allen Park Tenants Association buy and renovate deteriorated Allen Park, a 264-unit "expiring use" complex in Springfield, MA. TCB completes West Village Apartments in New Haven, CT – a historic YMCA renovation creating 148 SROs plus recreational facilities and social services.

After more than three decades as consultant, technical assistance provider, property manager, and development finance partner for CDCs and other nonprofit developers, The Community Builders, Inc. undertakes a comprehensive strategy review. TCB adopts a new Strategic Plan that focuses the organization on direct development activity, concentrating on large public and assisted housing projects, comprehensive neighborhood revitalization (CNR), and long-term ownership and management of properties developed and acquired.

After helping the Boston Housing Authority receive the Orchard Gardens HOPE VI award in 1995, TCB assists in securing HOPE VI grants for public housing and neighborhood revitalization in Pittsburgh and in Holyoke, MA. TCB begins development work on these projects and on the Park DuValle neighborhood in Louisville, KY. TCB also begins work on Kensington Square, a scattered site development in New Haven, CT.

University of Pennsylvania hires The Community Builders, Inc. as strategic advisors on university-driven neighborhood revitalization in West Philadelphia. TCB offers comprehensive revitalization strategy addressing public safety, housing, commercial development, schools, and economic development. Key elements include establishment of business improvement district, retooling of faculty/staff home purchase incentives, and creation of university-assisted public school.

American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards its Urban Design Honor Award to Park DuValle in Louisville, KY, our first HOPE VI project. TCB is also selected to participate in two high-profile HOPE VI developments: East Downtown Revitalization in Durham, NC and Broad Creek Renaissance in Norfolk, VA.

The Community Builders, Inc., developer of Lincoln Court HOPE VI project in Cincinnati, is selected to replace the developer of Laurel Homes HOPE VI project across the street. The combined site, named City West, involves over 900 units of residential and commercial development in 10 phases.

The Community Builders, Inc. moves forward with plans to redevelop East Mall, Penn Circle, and Liberty Park, three distressed high-rise developments known as Federal American Properties in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh. City funding, combined with creative restructuring of federal project-based subsidies, drives comprehensive neighborhood revitalization of East Liberty, on a scale comparable to a HOPE VI project.

TCB’s Springfield office and newly-formed Preservation department renew Plumley Village’s Section 8 contract for another 20 years and complete a $33 million refinancing that allows for significant capital improvements.

The first phase of the Oakwood Shores HOPE VI development in Chicago's Near South Side is completed. The project brings newly constructed mixed-income rental units to a neighborhood that historically has had significant amounts of public housing.

The Community Builders, Inc. completes construction of the final phase of the New Brunswick HOPE VI Revitalization in New Brunswick, NJ. This marks the completion of TCB's 10th HOPE VI development.

Morgan Woods, an affordable family rental community on the island of Martha's Vineyard, is awarded the first annual Urban Land Institute (ULI) J. Ronald Terwilliger Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Award.

TCB completes Fairlawn Marshall Apartments, its first development in Washington, DC. Fairlawn Marshall is a mixed-income redevelopment of eight scattered, three-story walk-up apartment buildings located in the Fairlawn and Marshall Heights neighborhoods in Southeast Washington, DC.

The Community Builders, Inc. receives $78,617,631 in funding from the US Office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of The Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP2). TCB plans to quickly identify multifamily projects that meet the NSP2 funding criteria and work with local and state officials to secure preliminary financing commitments and aggressively redevelop the targeted multifamily properties.

Repositioning a distressed assisted housing development in Pittsburgh's historic East Liberty neighborhood.
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