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For Eduardo: A Home Where Hope Lives

There is a difference between working to make ends meet, clocking in and out of a job, and experiencing a calling—a deeply felt conviction that you are meant, fundamentally, to serve a purpose. Eduardo Pereira is one of those fortunate enough to feel that his life’s purpose has been made plain to him. Indeed, he believes it’s a purpose we all share: to use our lives for the benefit of others. “I believe that there is no difference if I’m helping you or I’m helping myself,” he declares, sitting in his tidy, sunlit one-bedroom home at the Joy Street Residence on Beacon Hill. For him, this essential human interconnectedness mean that our actions,…

Rogerson Receives Quarter-Million Dollar Donation in Support of Massive Senior Living Community Redevelopment

Rogerson Communities announced today the receipt of a charitable gift of $250,000 made by Darlene L. Boroviak. The gift will cover predevelopment expenses related to the organization’s planned redevelopment of its Daggett-Crandall-Newcomb Home (DCN) community in Norton. The transformational project represents a tenfold expansion of Rogerson’s footprint and mission in southeastern Massachusetts. Currently a 25-bed, single-level assisted living residence, DCN is being reimagined as a purpose-built senior living campus offering 103 independent living apartments, 100 independent living cottages, and 48 supportive living beds, including memory care. Fifty-five acres of fields and woodlands around the development will be conserved for resident and community use. The donation is a current-use gift and will be used to advance project entitlements and financing activities. Anticipated costs include legal fees associated with the 40B permitting process; ongoing environmental…

Rogerson Awarded Over Half a Million Dollars for Memory Care Redevelopment

Rogerson Communities today announced the award of a $665,000 grant from the Charles H. Farnsworth Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, in support of the redevelopment of its memory care community in Jamaica Plain. The redevelopment project is the transformation of the organization’s flagship community, Rogerson House, across from Jamaica Pond. The plans include the creation of 41 new affordable independent living apartments in addition to 66 new memory care units to replace existing services on the 3.2 acre campus. The new six-story building will also include space for the organization’s memory care social day program, a Fitness FIRST center, and more than 20,000 square feet of outdoor…

Where Communication Meets Compassion

When you first meet Steve Sailsman, he’ll pull a laminated card out of his wallet and hand it to you. It’s worn and creased; it has clearly been handed back and forth many, many times. The card explains that he has aphasia, a language disorder that often makes speech difficult. It asks for patience when conversing with him and to try to avoid cutting him off, noting that he can understand and think clearly, but can have trouble finding and forming words. In an unrestrained, fast-paced world, it can be challenging to force yourself to slow down—to stop, sometimes—to give…

Boston Real Estate Leader John L. Hall II to Receive the Rogerson Award

Rogerson Communities is pleased to announce that storied Boston real estate developer John L. Hall II will be recognized with the Charles E. Rogerson Award, the organization’s most prestigious honor. Hall’s distinguished career in real estate spans more than three decades. He is principal and co-founder of Hall Properties and also serves on the board of directors of HallKeen Management, which oversees a wide portfolio of affordable and mixed-income housing across the Northeast. Previously, Hall spent 19 years as Executive Vice President at Carpenter & Company, where he was involved with the development of notable commercial projects such as the…