Congresswoman Pressley has submitted 15 funding requests for community projects in Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District to the House Appropriations Committee.

Under guidelines issued by the Appropriations Committee, each Representative may request funding for up to 15 projects in fiscal year 2025. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding. Additional information on the reforms governing Community Project Funding is available here.

To view Congresswoman Pressley’s FY2024 projects, click here.

To view Congresswoman Pressley’s FY2023 projects, click here.

To view Congresswoman Pressley’s FY2022 projects, click here.

In compliance with House rules and Appropriations Committee requirements, Congresswoman Pressley has certified that neither she nor her immediate family has any financial interest in any of the projects she has requested.

The submissions are listed in alphabetical order by project name.

Project name: 299 Broadway Redevelopment 

Amount Requested: $5,000,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Somerville 

90 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA 02143

Explanation of Request: The 299 Broadway Redevelopment project will revitalize a long-vacant, blighted site in Somerville’s Winter Hill neighborhood by constructing affordable and market-rate housing and providing retail space for local businesses. It will also create dedicated community space available to the public-at-large and green space for resident and pedestrian enjoyment. 

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: BMA TenPoint Family Initiative 

Amount Requested: $264,000

Intended Recipient:

BMA TenPoint

2010 Columbus Ave (Lower Level) Roxbury, MA 02119

Explanation of Request: This project will help support the BMA TenPoint Family Initiative (Family Initiative), a community-based violence and crime intervention and reduction project, is focused on families at high risk for violence by developing promising community violence reduction approaches.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Boston Senior Programming 

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Boston

1 City Hall Square Boston, Massachusetts 02201

Explanation of Request: This project will provide high quality programming for Boston’s growing older adult population with community partners across the City. Senior center type programs can learn to manage and delay the onset of chronic disease and experience improvements in their physical, social, spiritual, emotional, mental, and economic well-being, and this funding would expand access to seniors. 

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project name: BPS Bilingual Support

Amount Requested: $2,000,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Boston

1 City Hall Square Boston, Massachusetts 02201

Explanation of Request: This project aims to build a sustainable pathway from monolingual non-English and bilingual childcare settings to bilingual Boston Public Schools. We will train early educators and support families in bilingual development in young children so children enter school with a solid family/community language and the English skills needed for kindergarten. 

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Business as Beautiful 

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Boston

1 City Hall Square Boston, Massachusetts 02201

Explanation of Request: This project will support The Business as Beautiful campaign, which will augment Boston’s Storefront Improvement Program (ReStore) allowing the program to support entrepreneurs and neighborhoods precluded by legacy funding sources and high costs of capital.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Climate Corps Fellowship 

Amount Requested: $1,279,350

Intended Recipient:

Eastie Farm

6 Chelsea Terrace Boston, MA 02128 

Explanation of Request: This project would expand Eastie Farms’ Climate Corp Pilot Program, which consists of an earn-to-learn fellowship in which participants gain exposure to different green career pathways and develop skills including research on coastal vulnerabilities and developing nature-based solutions to these vulnerabilities, such as living shorelines and constructed wetlands. 

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Construction of a new Center for Economic and Social Studies at Roxbury Community College

Amount Requested: $6,000,000

Intended Recipient:

Roxbury Community College

1234 Columbus Ave Boston, MA 02120

Explanation of Request: This project will help rehabilitate and repurpose the historic Dudley House in order to create the new The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) at Roxbury Community College (RCC) will be a brand-new educational center focused on preparing low-income students and students of color to obtain jobs and develop their own small businesses in the growing green tech and energy efficiency sectors. 

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Construction of the Louis D Brown Peace Institutes’ Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning 

Amount Requested: $5,000,000

Intended Recipient:

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute 

360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

Explanation of Request: The construction of a new Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning for families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief, and loss. The Center will expand the Louis D Brown Peace Institute’s capacity to respond to our community. Services will include Survivors’ Outreach Services, the Community Re-Entry Services Program, Healing Support Services, Training, and Education.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Everett Community Center Rehabilitation 

Amount Requested: $5,000,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Everett

484 Broadway Everett, MA 02149

Explanation of Request: This grant will match local funds to renovate a former high school into a safe, welcoming, accessible, resilient community center to protect vulnerable residents during extreme weather while offering ongoing essential services to low-income residents and students.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Latimer Overlook Park Construction

Amount Requested: $3,933,726.84

Intended Recipient:

City of Chelsea

500 Broadway, Room 101 Chelsea, MA 02150 

Explanation of Request: This project will support the construction of a public park overlooking Chelsea Creek, on city-owned land next to Chelsea Street Bridge. Funding for construction, including the remediation of contaminated soils, planting new trees and a salt-tolerant meadow, permeable paths, and new shade shelters.            

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Ozone Generators Replacement

Amount Requested: $3,595,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Cambridge

795 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 

Explanation of Request: The Ozone Generators that provide primary disinfection of our drinking water are over 23 years old and need to be replaced. The replacement of these generators for the City of Cambridge Water Department is a necessary upgrade/modification of a publicly owned water treatment facility to help maintain full regulatory compliance with all Federal and State Drinking Water Standards.  This upgrade will improve the finished water quality for all users of Cambridge water. 

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Roxbury Worx Program

Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Intended Recipient:

The American City Coalition (TACC)

2136 Washington Street Roxbury, MA 02119

Explanation of Request: The American City Coalition’s Roxbury Worx program is designed to connect Roxbury’s justice-impacted individuals/returning citizens into the talent pipeline in three expanding sectors: Life Science, Healthcare, and Green/Blue Tech. The program is designed to reduce recidivism through job training, hiring commitments by partner organizations, and wrap around supports for program participants.  

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Union Square Plaza and Streetscape Project 

Amount Requested: $2,000,000

Intended Recipient:

City of Somerville

90 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA 02143

Explanation of Request: This project will create a dynamic civic hub and improve access to shops, restaurants, and public transit. Phase 1 will reconfigure the Prospect St. and Webster Ave. intersection and implement safe, accessible paths of travel to the Union Square Green Line station.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Randolph Water Standpipe Replacement

Amount Requested: $7,848,841

Intended Recipient:

City of Randolph 

41 South Main Street Randolph, MA 02368

Explanation of Request: This project will demolish an aging water standpipe for construction of new water standpipe with greater capacity to increase water pressure equalization, fire suppression volume and operational flexibility needed for public health and public safety of the water distribution system.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)

Project Name: Water Transmission Main Construction 

Amount Requested: $2,878,948

Intended Recipient:

City of Randolph

41 South Main Street Randolph, MA 02368

Explanation of Request: This project will help with the construction of a new Tri-Town Water Treatment Plant, specifically the construction of new water transmission mains from the Tri-Town Water District Plant to the Town of Randolph’s local water distribution system.

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter (PDF)