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Speaker 1: And with that, an excavator cut a ribbon and started

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Speaker 1: tearing down an old star market that's been abandoned for

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Speaker 1: seventeen years in Summerville's Winter Hill. The demolition will make

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Speaker 1: way for the new two ninety nine Broadway development. Couple

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Speaker 1: add over three hundred units of housing, including half being

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Speaker 1: affordable retail spaces and an outdoor plaza. City Councilor Jesse

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Speaker 1: Klington represents Winter Hill and has lived here almost his

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Speaker 1: whole life. He says this new development will be a

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Speaker 1: game changer for one of the city's less developed neighborhoods.

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Speaker 2: I always imagined like, rather than this be a sort

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Speaker 2: of a thoroughfare, like a you know, a place where

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Speaker 2: people are just driving through, it would actually we could

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Speaker 2: actually have a development or create a space where community

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Speaker 2: could come together.

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Speaker 1: Mayor like Jake Wilson, lives in winter Hill, so he's

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Speaker 1: thrilled to see the building come down. He says this

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Speaker 1: development can be the blueprint to address the city's affordable

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Speaker 1: housing shortage.

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Speaker 3: We have a goal of getting to twenty percent affordable

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Speaker 3: in Summerville. Mathematically, we all know we'll never get there

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Speaker 3: if every development is that twenty percent minimum inclusionary zone.

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Speaker 3: It will not happen right. That's why we need projects

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Speaker 3: like this

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Speaker 1: From Somerville Kyle BRAWBZ, Boston's news radio