Impact South County’s first housing development was built of land donated from the town and now is home to ten families in Great Barrington.
Impact South County has helped to create sustainable communities in southern Berkshire County since 1988, when we were incorporated as a Massachusetts Community Development Corporation for local business support and Main Street revitalization.
In 1998, we initiated a Home-Based Business Assistance Program sponsored by the towns of Great Barrington and Sheffield.
In 2002, we began developing smaller scale, rural low and middle-income housing. Since then, Impact South County has created 60 new low and middle-income housing units and leveraged over $19 million in public and private investment in the region. Our current pipeline of projects includes 153 housing units and 54,000 square feet of commercial space.
Incorporation around Great Barrington Main Street issues with the intent to build a town market place and meeting hall
Home-based Business Assistance Program initiated, sponsored by the towns of Great Barrington and Sheffield; awarded an EPA Site Assessment Grant for the 100 Bridge Street (formerly New England Log Homes/NELH); formation of the South Berkshire Housing Coalition
100 Bridge Street, formerly NELH, Environmental Assessment Phase I and Phase II completed by engineering firm Fuss and O’Neill Inc.
140 East Street: completion of nine low and middle-income rental units, first in Great Barrington in 20 years
Great Barrington town vote to donate land for low and middle-income housing on Hillside Avenue
100 Bridge Street, formerly NELH, Environmental Assessment Phase III and Phase IV completed by Ransom Environmental Inc.
Pinewoods: completion of 30 low and middle-income rental units
Hillside Avenue: completion of ten low and middle-income rental units; first new construction of low and middle-income rental units in Great Barrington in 10+ years
Demolition completed on 100 Bridge Street site with $1.2 million
Impact South County receives $50,000 of Community Investment Tax Credits in its first allotment from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
100 Bridge Street: $300,000 in Community Preservation Open Space Funds awarded for Riverfront Park; $450,000 in Community Preservation Funds for low and middle-income Housing awarded over 2 years (2015-2016)
Forest Springs: Managed the design and permitting process and secured all project financing
Impact South County allotted $50,000 in Community Investment Tax Credits
Impact South County closes to Purchased 910 Main St., Great Barrington to build Windrush low and middle-income housing development
MA DHCD funds Bentley Apartments, the low and middle-income housing portion of 100 Bridge Street
Construction at 100 Bridge Street for Bentley low and middle-income apartments
45 families moved into Bentley apartments
Construction began for Windrush low and middle-income housing development at 910 Main St in Great Barrington
49 families moved into Windrush
Purchased Sumner Block in Great Barrington for low and middle-income housing
Bought The Thornewood Inn and opened to month to month workforce housing
Town of Egremont selected Impact South County to develop workforce housing project
Submitted application to state on Massachusetts to develop low and middle-income housing at West Center Street in Lee
Groundbreaking for two duplexes in Egremont, including homeownership and rentals
In the early 1990s, Impact South County bought derelict property in downtown Great Barrington that had laid fallow for years, and brought it back to meet critical housing needs
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