MOORESVILLE, N.C., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's revealed the 100 community-nominated impact projects that have been selected as part of this year's Lowe's Hometowns program, with 2022 serving as the first of a five-year, $100 million commitment to the communities it serves. With projects spanning 40 states and Washington, D.C., Lowe's will help restore and revitalize spaces that serve as the hubs and heartbeats of communities, including neighborhood housing, parks, community centers and much more.

Owen McCarthy has found himself a home at South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation … in more ways than one.

He’s not only a longtime resident (16 years) in South Boston NDC housing, he’s also the organization's maintenance manager.

He does everything from apartment cleanouts to yard maintenance to helping seniors hang their curtains … and everything in between.

Because Owen lives in South Boston NDC housing, “I’m close to [the residents]. I connect with them,” he said. “I know everything they are going through, too, because I’m in the same situation.”

Everything aligned just right for Elizabeth Quinn. The last year of her life was full thanks to a team of people who worked together to help her out.

“I think the biggest part was just knowing that she landed in a community place where her last year of life was rich and full because of the people that she was surrounded by,” said Kathy Lafferty, executive director at the South Boston Neighborhood House. “That, to me, is the best part of the whole thing.”

Paraclete Inc. and South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation are pleased to announce that they have entered into a purchase agreement to preserve the former St. Augustine’s convent, now known as McDevitt Hall, and convert the building into affordable apartments for seniors. The former St. Augustine’s convent on E Street has most recently been used by the Paraclete for its academic enrichment programs.

270 W. Second Street is currently a fish processing plant that has been a blight on the neighborhood for decades.

The site owner is proposing a five-story, 81-unit building on the site and has agreed to only the bare minimum 13 percent of Inclusionary Development (IDP) Units. South Boston NDC is pushing for 17 percent IDP units.

The South Boston neighborhood, located a few miles from downtown Boston, is well known as a working-class area and home to a large community of Irish immigrants and their descendants. The neighborhood also has experienced significant levels of gentrification and displacement over the past two decades. To provide longtime area residents with an affordable housing option in their community, the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation (South Boston NDC) opened O’Connor Way in summer 2021, providing 46 one-bedroom apartments affordable to seniors aged 62 and above who earn no more than 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). The project is notable for the way South Boston NDC leveraged existing affordable housing assets, policies, and other local resources to overcome gentrification- and pandemic-related challenges and open O’Connor Way.