This affordable housing project wasn’t going to happen—and then an unlikely partnership formed

In the economically disadvantaged Lincoln Park neighborhood of New Rochelle, NY, two long-sought community projects have, after decades, finally come to fruition. All they needed was to combine forces and colocate. The Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle has been a center of this majority Black and Latinx community for nearly a century, but its facility was feeling the aches and pains common to 75-year-old buildings. Next door to it was a plot of land that had sat tantalizingly empty...