FY2023 Community Project Funding Submissions
For the 2023 Fiscal Year (FY2023), the House Committee on Appropriations is allowing each Member to submit up to 15 Community Project Funding (CPF) requests for their specific Congressional district.
Below, in alphabetical order by project, are the MA-08 CPF submissions for the FY2023 appropriations cycle.
Allen Street Reconstruction
- Proposed Entity: Town of Braintree located at 1 John F. Kennedy Memorial Drive, Braintree, MA 02184.
- Amount Requested: $3,500,000
- Explanation of Request: The roadway and sidewalks along Allen Street, between Shaw Street and Quincy Avenue, are in severe disrepair. In addition, the structural wall which retains the public right-of-way from lower-lying private properties to the south is in imminent danger of failing and has already experienced two localized collapses, resulting in closure of the sidewalk. Because the retaining wall is integral to the street and sidewalk, the project cost has been prohibitive and the town has been unable to identify enough funding to undertake the project to date. This project will address a major infrastructure need for the Town of Braintree and will also serve to bolster a planned development on the 44 Allen Street property, which will create mixed income housing units . This project will increase pedestrian and bicycle access from Quincy Avenue and Shaw Street to the development area, which will include public waterfront access to the Monatiquot River, and it will also provide a direct link from Shaw Street and the abutting neighborhoods to transit along Quincy Avenue, including the MBTA bus and commuter rail (Greenbush) line.
Ausonia Apartments Modernization
- Proposed Entity: Boston Housing Authority located at 52 Chauncy Street, Boston, MA, 02111 and the Ausonia Apartments are at 185 Fulton Street, Boston, MA, 02109
- Amount Requested: $1,000,000
- Explanation of Request: The BHA is seeking to modernize Ausonia’s residential units while attaining enhanced environmental standards and promoting healthy housing. In the 45 years since Ausonia opened its doors, federal public housing capital subsidies have not kept up with the needs of the property. BHA plans to fully modernize the property with particular attention to indoor air quality and other quality of life improvements that require a significant one-time investment. Special attention will be paid to accessibility features appropriate for the seniors and non-senior disabled residents who live at Ausonia and in full compliance with modern accessibility standards.
Brockton Biosolids Sludge Dryer
- Proposed Entity: City of Brockton, located at 45 School Street, Brockton, MA 02301.
- Amount Requested: $2,000,000
- Explanation of Request: The City of Brockton is seeking to design and construct a biosolids sludge dryer to address the concerns and costs associated with transporting and disposing sewage sludge. Currently, Brockton is shipping all dewatered sewage sludge to a treatment facility in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Brockton, in addition to many other communities in New England, is experiencing increasing sludge disposal costs due to limited incineration capacity, limited landfill capacity for wastewater sludge, and pressure on land appliers and farms to stop using biosolids due to per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) concerns. The uncertain future of incinerators in the region has created a need for a more sustainable solution to managing sludge for the City of Brockton.
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Expansion
- Proposed Entity: Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, located at 63 Main Street, Brockton MA 02301.
- Amount Requested: $1,000,000
- Explanation of Request: Funding will be used to renovate the fifth floor of its site at 63 Main Street to convert several hundred square feet of administrative offices into clinical space. The new configuration will accommodate five or six primary care providers and will triple the size of the substance use services clinic. This will allow the health center to serve at least 2,000 more patients annually with primary care and substance use disorder services.
Home Base 2-Week Intensive Clinical Program for Families of the Fallen and Resilient Youth Program for their Child Survivors
- Proposed Entity: Division the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. The hospital is located 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 and Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program’s clinic is located at One Constitution Road, Suite 140, Charlestown, MA 02129.
- Amount Requested: $1,000,000
- Explanation of Request: Home Base is a Red Sox Foundation and MA General Hospital program that is dedicated to providing care of invisible wounds to veterans including post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression, co-occurring substance use disorder, family relationship challenges and other issues associated with military service. Funding will enable adult survivors from across the country to participate in Home Base’s 2-Week Families of the Fallen Intensive Clinical Program and children grieving the death of a parent/primary caregiver who served in the U.S. military to participate in Home Base’s Resilient Youth Program.
Lawrence R. Cosgrove Memorial Pool Rehabilitation
- Proposed Entity: City of Brockton located at 45 School Street, Brockton MA 02301.
- Amount Requested: $3,200,000
- Explanation of Request: The Cosgrove Pool was built in 1965 and opened to the public in July of 1966. Cosgrove is one of only a handful of publicly held fifty meter pools in the Commonwealth. This facility has honorably served the City of Brockton since that time but has not received any significant upgrades since its opening. The project is needed as the bathhouse is not ADA Compliant and while pool regulations have changed over the years, the current pool utilizes existing infrastructure (pipe sizes and filter system) that does not provide the water turnover rate required by today's more stringent pool and water safety regulations. Capital improvements will include updating the existing infrastructure to current pool safety compliance standards, as well as making the facility full ADA accessible and compliant.
MassChallenge
- Proposed Entity: MassChallenge, located at 10 Fan Pier Blvd, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02210.
- Amount Requested: $800,000
- Explanation of Request: In order to address continued gaps in funding and access to other essential resources, and the resulting opportunity and wealth gap, MassChallenge has committed to invest in Driving Equitable Outcomes includes several critical components: Outsized investment in historically underrepresented founders, including increasing participation in MassChallenge’s startup accelerator program, executive coaching from entrepreneurs with shared perspective, and focused program to increase access to capital Investment in a more inclusive entrepreneurial support ecosystem, including through training on identity and race Thought-leadership and papers highlighting the selection and acceleration processes that exclude founders and new approaches to create more equitable and inclusive approaches.
Mayor Hannon Parkway/ Gen. McConville Way New Intersection
- Proposed Entity: City of Quincy located at City Hall, 1305 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02169.
- Amount Requested: $4,000,000
- Explanation of Request: The new intersection will have multiple benefits to the taxpayers of Quincy and those who commute through Downtown Quincy. The taxpayer’s benefit from the economic development opportunities unlocked by the new utilities and intersection. The redevelopment of the adjacent, underutilized parcels will significantly enhance the commercial tax base in Quincy without a significant increase in municipal service costs. This is in addition to the jobs creation during the construction projects and the operations of the new commercial and residential buildings. Commuters will benefit from the elimination of the bottleneck at the existing Parkingway – Hannon Parkway intersection which causes back-ups into the State-owned portion of Burgin Parkway.
Nantasket Avenue Sea Wall Replacement
- Proposed Entity: Town of Hull located at 253 Atlantic Avenue, Hull, MA 02045.
- Amount Requested: $5,000,000
- Explanation of Request: The Nantasket Avenue Seawall Replacement will create new stronger and higher seawall to protect road access and utility supply to Pemberton Point in Hull. The project will protect a critical area in the Town of Hull maintaining the utilities and road access during severe storms. The Hull wastewater treatment plant provides service to three communities (Hull, Hingham and Cohasset) and over 14,000 people. If the road is breached, the wastewater treatment plant and the connecting sewers will be at risk creating the potential for a major public health crisis. The project provides protection to the only road and utilities providing heat (and other services) for over 3500 people in Pemberton Point and two schools. Protection of the road will also maintain access to the US CoastGuard Station on Pemberton Point.
New England Aquarium
- Proposed Entity: New England Aquarium Corporation, located at 1 Central Wharf, Boston MA 02110.
- Amount Requested: $2,400,000
- Explanation of Request: The Aquarium’s project completely modernizes its static wayfinding and educational interpretive displays to be more interactive, accessible, age-appropriate, and culturally-contextualized for our diverse visiting audience. By updating and presenting our content and conservation-based messaging through innovative delivery mechanisms, the Aquarium is better equipped to integrate its research and conservation work into its exhibits while continually reflecting the latest science on the impacts of a changing climate. Funds will support the development of new educational and wayfinding content, conservation-based messaging, delivery techniques, and opportunities for engagement.
Parking Garage in the General’s Area of Downtown Quincy
- Proposed Entity: City of Quincy located at City Hall, 1305 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02169.
- Amount Requested: $4,000,000
- Explanation of Request: The Parking garage would be created to continue economic development of a medical district in Quincy. This public facility will unlock several public-private-partnerships for medical, commercial, retail, and workforce housing. This required public facility will facilitate the public parking demand of commuters and business-oriented trips to new medical, commercial, office and retail uses proposed in the surrounding area as Quincy center transforms. The layout of the municipal parking facility contemplates the construction of two subterranean levels, four elevated levels with ground floor retail and commercial use opportunities. The project redevelopment is ready to commence initial construction activities during the summer of 2021.
Quincy Central Fire Station
- Proposed Entity: City of Quincy located at City Hall, 1305 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02169.
- Amount Requested: $10,000,000
- Explanation of Request: The station has been expanded, modified, and transformed dozens of times to accommodate the advances in fire protection equipment, technologies, and safety, including modifying the fire bay door openings because modern fire apparatus could no longer fit within the building.
South Boston Community Health Center Expansion
- Proposed Entity: South Boston Community Health Center, located at 409 West Broadway, South Boston, 02127.
- Amount Requested: $2,000,000
- Explanation of Request: South Boston Community Health Center needs to expand its capacity by an addition of two floors to the health center to help the health center accommodate increased demand of services and allow for better infection control by properly spacing patients. SBCHC has completed the feasibility portion of the project and now seeks to move to the next step by completing the design and bid documents phase, for which the current estimate is $1,000,000. The requested funding will pay for the architect to proceed with the designed drawings and bid documents. Upon completion of that phase, it will go out to bid and begin construction. The remaining million dollars of this request will be put toward the construction.
UMass Home Care Digital and Simulation Lab
- Proposed Entity: University of Massachusetts Boston located at 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA, 02125.
- Amount Requested: $5,000,000
- Explanation of Request: UMass Boston is proposing creating a Home Care Digital and Simulation lab. The purpose of Manning’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences Home Care Digital and Simulation Lab (HC-DSL) will be to educate the next generation of home health care providers in evolving technologies used in home care at all levels of acuity and chronicity with a special emphasis on those that are aging, disabled and historically experienced health disparities. Simulation using digital technologies relevant to home care will help undergraduate and graduate nursing students to acquire safety competencies, improve communication and inter-personal skills and involve patients and families in their care from their own home.
Wessagusset Beach Project
- Proposed Entity: Town of Weymouth located at 75 Middle Street Weymouth, MA 02189.
- Amount Requested: $4,962,633
- Explanation of Request: At Wessagusset and Lane beaches, Weymouth is taking a proactive approach to this crisis by replacing deteriorated walls and dilapidated structures with over 1,000 feet of new revetment. Additionally, the Town plans to restore native vegetation to decrease erosion and dangerous landslides along with improving drainage. By implementing these measures to address these natural hazards, Weymouth can increase coastal resiliency and protect critical infrastructure as well as residential and commercial properties from destruction which in turn will save taxpayers from more costly damages. Furthermore, the Town will be able to maintain critical emergency services and ensure public safety while reducing injuries and loss of life.