Multi-Housing News: Mission First Housing Group Renovates Historic School to Serve as Affordable Housing
by Mission First HousingBy Joshua Ayers, Senior Editor
Philadelphia—Mission First Housing Group and staff, along with residents, business and civic leaders celebrated the re-opening of MPB School Apartments, a historic former parochial school-turned apartments in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood.
The 28-unit rehabilitated property garnered historic landmark status on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1992 and was converted to apartments for affordable housing the following year. Mission First Housing acquired the property in 2008 but didn’t secure financing for the renovation until last year.
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