Welcome to 191 Bowdoin

 VietAID redeveloped two vacant lots at 191-195 Bowdoin Street in Dorchesters Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood. The mixed-use project includes 41 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, affordable to households with incomes at or below 60% of Area Median Income (AMI), with eleven units affordable to households at or below 30% of AMI.

The 6,000 square feet of ground floor retail space is leased to the Dorchester Community Food Co-Op grassroots initiative to build a community and worker-owned grocery store that makes healthy food accessible and advances economic opportunity through neighborhood engagement. The design of the building and site plan engages the public realm through a series of new, multi-functional open spaces. Plaza areas and landscape zones wrap the corner of the site and mediate between commercial and residential uses.