Visions Green Street Commons

Visions for Creative Housing Solutions (http://www.visionsnh.org) is an amazing organization providing housing for developmentally challenged adults in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont. MA+KE Architects is so proud to have collaborated with Visions on their Green Street Commons. We first visited the property when it was operating as a very rundown apartment complex with extreme deferred maintenance issues. Sylvia Dow, the Executive Director of Visions, was hell bent on revitalizing the property to provide housing for an extremely underserved community.

Working together with Visions and a variety of funding agencies we designed a project that took two old, tired structures through a deep energy retrofit process that resulted in four two-bedroom apartments, three one-bedroom living units, and a community commons (living room, kitchen, and dining room) for the residents.

The residence is extremely well located—less than a five-minute walk to the Lebanon Green, close to public transportation, just around the corner from the city library, and walking distance from numerous community services and local businesses. This project is one of the projects we take the most pride in having been part of.