Property Highlights

30 Center Street, Chicopee

VOC purchased 30 Center Street at the end of 2021, a threestory building in downtown Chicopee that is being renovated into affordable apartments. now on the top floor of the building there are two newly-renovated, one-bedroom apartments with new appliances and bathrooms with large walk-in showers. the apartments are also energy efficient with new doublepaned windows and a heat pump system. Once the project is completed, the building will have eight units as a mix of affordable and market-rate housing, and commercial spaces on the ground floor.

VOC would like to collaborate with area colleges to offer the new apartments as affordable housing for college students - a model not yet really seen in affordable housing. there is also a possibility of having a college satellite location on the ground floor of the building.

VOC received $750,000 in federal funds granted by the City of Chicopee to renovate the building, along with a $425,000 renovation grant from the City of Springfield, designed to help expand affordable housing options county-wide.