Portfolio - DREAM Collaborative LLC

Affordable Housing in Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain – DREAM Collaborative was commission by JPNDC to design 8 units of affordable homeownership housing spanning several parcels purchased from MassDOT. The design features an efficient, contemporary layout with select traditional exterior details that complement the existing neighborhood context. The design team…

Jamaica Plain Mixed-Income Housing Redevelopment

Jamaica Plain, MA – Centre Street Partners – comprised of The Community Builders, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation, and Urban Edge – was selected for Phase I of the redevelopment of the Boston Housing Authority’s Mildred C. Hailey Apartments. The development concept replaces the…

Multigenerational Housing Development

Roxbury, Massachusetts – Update 6/26/2018: Design approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The City of Boston solicited proposals for a pilot Housing Innovation Competition. The goal was to identify ways to address rising housing prices and create more middle-income and affordable senior housing…

41-51 Walnut Park

Roxbury, Massachusetts – DREAM Collaborative has been engaged by Urban Edge, a national leader in community development, to redevelop two lots at 41 and 51 Walnut Park. The result is a sustainable 5-story wood framed building housing approximately 49 affordable residential units with surface…

45 Townsend Residences

Roxbury, MA – This project transforms the former site of Radius Hospital into a 300-unit residential building. DREAM Collaborative has been engaged by Kensington Investments to provide comprehensive interior architecture services for the project from concept to completion (unit design, unit mix, and lobbies).

Neighborhood Health Clinic

Roxbury, Massachusetts – DREAM Collaborative provided complete design and construction administration services for the fit-out of Whittier Street Health Center @ Quincy Commons, a 2,700 sf DPH-certified retail health facility on the first floor of an existing building located at 276 Blue Hill Avenue….

Museum of NCAAA at Tremont Crossing

Roxbury, MA – DREAM Collaborative has been engaged by P-3 Partners LLC, the group behind Tremont Crossing, the proposed new 1.2 million sf mixed-use commercial development which was granted approval by the BPDA on 3/3. DREAM will provide architectural design services for the fit-out…

Somerville Affordable Housing

Somerville, MA – Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) is a nonprofit developer, owner, and operator of nearly 9,000 affordable homes in 9 states and the District of Columbia. POAH’s mission is to preserve, create and sustain affordable, healthy homes that support economic security and…

Winthrop Square Tower

Boston, MA – Millennium Partners was selected by the City of Boston to develop the site of the former Winthrop Square Garage. Millennium’s $1.3 billion investment would create a 702-foot tower including 750,000 sf of office space and 500 residential units atop a multi-story…

Affordable Senior Housing

Dorchester, MA – Hearth Inc. is one of Boston’s foremost operators of affordable supportive housing for at-risk elders. The City of Boston designated Hearth Inc. as the developer of 16 Ronald Street (former home to the Ronald Gibson School), which is located just steps…

New Mission-Driven Commercial Building

Roxbury, MA – DREAM Collaborative has partnered with Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation to develop a new three-story 17,100 sf mixed-use commercial building to knit together the amenities surrounding the Dudley Miller Park site and engage with the Dudley corridor neighborhood. The design provides flexible…

Charlestown Mixed-Income Housing Redevelopment

Charlestown, MA – DREAM Collaborative has joined forces with Stantec and two other design firms to replace 1,100 units of housing spread out over 41 buildings in the Boston Housing Authority’s largest housing community for low- and moderate-income individuals and families. The existing development…

Roxbury Residences

Roxbury, MA – Developed by Madison Park Development Corporation, a community-based, non-profit that independently develops affordable housing for low and moderate-income residents, this 16-unit multifamily condominium building will bring jobs and home ownership opportunities for the community and will contribute to the continued revitalization…

Smith Baker Center

Lowell, Massachusetts – The Smith Baker Center is an existing 23,500 sf historic building in downtown Lowell currently in hosting arts, entertainment, performance and other uses. The Coalition for a Better Acre (CBA) is proposing to redevelop the building into a mixed-use community center to serve as a much…

Community Center Headquarters

Dorchester, Massachusetts – The mission of the Freedom House is to transform the economic and cultural fabric of high-need communities through education and leadership development. DREAM Collaborative, working in conjunction with JANEY Construction has transformed the Grove Hall Library building at 5 Crawford Street into the new…

Wellness & Fitness Club

Boston, Massachusetts – DREAM Collaborative was commissioned to complete a 7,700 sf interior fit-out for the Whittier Wellness & Fitness Club at the newly constructed Whittier Street Health Center (WSHC). The result is a world-class facility that cost half of the contractor’s original estimate, without sacrificing…

Cultural Center

Dorchester, MA – The project involves the renovation and expansion of an existing 24,000 sf garage into a new 120,000 sf environmentally sustainable mixed-use building. 260 Washington Street will feature a unique mix of 50 one-bedroom residential units, innovative office and co-working space, event/performance…

Asbury Grande

Asbury Park, NJ – This existing neoclassical five story building once housed the Jersey Central Power and Light Company. The design re-purposed this building into 25 residential condominiums ranging in size from 900-1,500 sf. Particular attention was paid to the creation of the new open plan residential…

Peters Residence

Calgary, Albert, Canada – This 11,000 sf residence tops an expansive site in the Calgary countryside. The conceptual approach was to take advantage of the views by generating the “L” configuration of the main house. The guest villa completes this configuration to form a courtyard. While kitchen…

Orman Residence

Calgary, Albert, Canada – This residence fills a long, narrow site on the Elbow River in an eclectic residential neighborhood of downtown Calgary. The house features a play of masses in a modern architectural language. Inside, the spaces are defined by levels to create…

41 Regent Street Development

Roxbury, MA – The proposed development will combine two adjacent lots, vacant for a number of years, and turn them into a positive addition to the neighborhood. This project proposes to develop a multi-family residential building on the 41 Regent Street parcel, which is owned…

BHA Building Envelope Renovations

Jamaica Plain, MA – DREAM Collaborative managed a team of architects and engineers to conduct a capital needs study including exterior/interior building investigations and analysis, followed by full design and construction administration services to bring effective, cost efficient repairs to the Mildred C. Hailey…

Dudley Square Redevelopment

Roxbury, MA – The goal was to craft an urban design strategy and building intervention that both re-establishes the southern edge of the Dudley Square Commercial District and reintegrates this edge into the district as a whole. The resulting design explores the aspirations of…

New Dimension Church

Providence, RI – DREAM Collaborative provided full design and construction administration services to New Dimension Church (NDC), a fast growing Christian congregation in Providence, Rhode Island. DREAM Collaborative assisted NDC in evaluating several sites leading to the eventual selection of an existing warehouse and…