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Ground Broken on on 225 Centre St., a "New Vision" for Jackson Square

Officials and residents celebrated the groundbreaking for 225 Centre Street, the first of 14 buildings to be constructed in the redevelopment of Jackson Square.

Nearly 100 community members, civic leaders, and government officials gathered beneath a white tent Saturday morning near the station to celebrate the long-awaited groundbreaking of 225 Centre Street. The building, which is the first of 14 to be built in the $250 million redevelopment of Jackson Square, will be mixed-used and include over 100 one, two, and three bedroom apartments. The product of nearly two decades of planning and collaboration, officials lauded the project as a community's vision to reconnect Jamaica Plain and Roxbury and strengthen the City of Boston. Officials expect the building to be completed by the summer of 2013. 

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