Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative (The Collaborative) is a not for-profit organization in Boston consisting of three community development corporations (CDCs) that promotes and supports sustainable community development along a nine-mile commuter rail section through some of the city’s most impoverished minority neighborhoods. The Collaborative seeks to enhance these communities by means of transit-oriented development, affordable housing and economic opportunities, streetscape improvements, and other residential amenities.
In the Talbot Norfolk Triangle (TNT) neighborhood, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC), one of the three Collaborative partners, is working to establish a neighborhood-scale eco-district focused on conserving energy through energy retrofits and energy-efficient, transit-oriented development. This effort involves two potential “green” designations—LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND) and EcoDistricts…