Brookside Artist Studios

In 2001, New Atlantic was hired by a group of artists living and working in a dilapidated, 100 year old rubber factory in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, to redevelop the property in a way that would assure its long term affordability for working artists.

View along Brookside Avenue

On behalf of Brookside Artists LLC, New Atlantic developed a plan to acquire and redevelop the 28,000 square foot complex of buildings originally built as the Steadman Rubber Factory. The four-year effort resulted in 18 affordable artists' live/work lofts, three market rate live/work lofts, and three commercial condominiums. Many of the live/work studios were designed to accommodate the unique needs of individual artists. Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development and the Neighborhood Housing Trust provided grants to the project as part of Mayor Menino's Artist Space Initiative. The project was designed by ICON architecture, inc. and constructed by the Lojek Company Inc.