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Bernice 'Bunny' Girshick:

The apartment is, it's my home. It's a place I've lived for all these years and it's all I can think of when I think of that. Since Winn has taken over, the thing that I noticed the most is that they do things very thoroughly. They also seem to love the place like I do. I think that's one thing I noticed because they really care about how things look. The grounds are kept beautiful. Even the snow, when it had a bad winter, I would look out at four in the morning and I'd see the men shoveling the sidewalks right up to our steps. I really felt that they really tried their best to keep things safe. I'm just very happy there because of the way they treat the apartment the way I love it.

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Karen Kelleher:

It's such a critical time for us and our mission-driven partners to be doing this work. The need for affordable housing, the need for investments in low-income communities is as high as it's ever been. This is a time of great economic uncertainty and the people who are most affected by that are the most vulnerable people. The life expectancy in the neighborhood of Roxbury is about 68 years of age. The life expectancy in the Back Bay, which is about two miles away, it's about 91. That to me is an incredibly powerful statistic that makes the point that there's something different happening in these different neighborhoods. It's important to us for our corporate home to be in the place where people we serve are living, and we've been deeply invested in Roxbury for a long time.

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Kevin Hepner:

I think the fact of where the campus is located was a big piece of what's important to New Market Tax Credit's investors, because they're really trying to bring capital into under-resourced communities, and that's what our project did. The resources that it brought to us allowed us to complete the capital stack we needed in order to move forward with construction. What it also forced us to do is really think about the project through a New Market Tax Credit lens, which is, how do we use the resources of the institution to build economic prosperity in the community that we were moving into? Part of that is the short-term construction jobs that were created. Part of it is the growth of the institution and permanent jobs, but it's also the conscientious thought about how and where we spend our money. To say, how do we get our dollar to circulate through the local economy as many times as possible?

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Dr. Marvin Loiseau:

What makes us really special is that we are purposely focusing on students who would be overlooked and have the disadvantages that other students don't. And so, we want to serve those students who are able to learn the skill and be able to get them a great job and a great opportunity. And I think that that work is what makes us special. I was part of the conversation when we were going to move 10 years ago. We built a building that was educational and had the space to learn, but we also wanted to make sure that it served our students well. Explaining that to the architects, they really got and understood what we were thinking about. And when they came up with design, I said, "This is perfect," because it really allows us to be able to have the students learn the skills, have the space to do it, and also be able to come together in the center of the building where they can interact with each other and form lasting relationships.

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Richard Caines III:

We look at our clients as partners. So it isn't just about the food service we provide, it's also about support. I look at everything as relationships. So, even for sales, I say, "I'm not a salesman." I always say, "I'm a relationship builder." And after that, you can move into whatever venue your relationship brings. So I love that aspect. I meet all kinds of people. I also get to tell City Fresh's story all the time. Also known as the City Fresh historian.

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The New Market Tax Credit, it allowed us to move to our new facility, which is about three times the original site we were at before, which allowed us to grow and provide more service and expand our reach and provide more meals to the community.

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