86 Dummer Street - Brookline, MABrookline, MA Construction manager Colantonio Inc. completed 86 Dummer St., 32 new units of affordable rental housing for the Brookline Housing Authority (BHA). The project is the largest such development in the town in over 35 years.
The energy-efficient, wood-frame building was built above a new, underground parking garage and forms a quadrangle with the existing Trustman Apartments. The new layout features an accessible courtyard that includes landscaped green space, play structures and a basketball court. Low-income families, senior citizens and people with disabilities recently moved into the spacious one, two and three-bedroom units, many with a view of the Boston skyline.
“This was the perfect project to use the CM at Risk delivery method,” said chairman and CEO Fran Colantonio. “We self-performed the site work, so we added real value during the preconstruction phase addressing the site’s poor soil conditions and elevation issues. And it was a pleasure to work with the BHA again.”
Colantonio renovated all 86 units of the existing Trustman Apartments, while they were occupied, in 2012.
Colantonio’s craftsmen also performed the carpentry and millwork on 86 Dummer Street, which helped control the cost and quality of the work.
Owner’s project manager Pinck & Co. oversaw the project, which was designed by Tise Design Associates.
Colantonio has been providing award-winning construction management and general contracting services in the academic, affordable housing, commercial, municipal and historical restoration markets since 1978.