BOSTON—Trinity Financial has been named the 2025 Development Partner of the Year by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, an honor highlighting the firm’s decades-long role in redeveloping some of Boston’s largest public housing communities into contemporary mixed-income neighborhoods.
The award caps a notable year for the Boston-based developer. Earlier this fall, Trinity principals James Keefe and Patrick Lee received the Norman B. Leventhal Excellence in City Building Award for contributions to inclusive community development across the city.
Trinity’s work in Boston spans more than three decades, during which the firm has partnered with residents, public housing authorities, and city officials to overhaul aging properties into modern, sustainable communities. In Roxbury, the redevelopment of Orchard Gardens—formerly Orchard Park—has been held up nationally as a model for neighborhood revitalization, earning recognition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and design and homebuilding organizations.
In East Boston, Maverick Landing became the region’s first LEED-certified multifamily housing project, replacing deteriorated public housing with new buildings and a pedestrian-oriented street layout. The firm’s redevelopment of Franklin Hill in Dorchester and Washington Beech in Roslindale continued its emphasis on sustainable design, with both sites achieving LEED certifications and winning national design awards. More recently, Overlook Terrace at Orient Heights—a multi-phase reconstruction of one of Boston’s oldest public housing communities—earned engineering and sustainability honors, including the ACEC 2025 National Recognition Award.
“Trinity Financial’s work represents the very best of what public-private collaboration can achieve,” said Peter Proulx, president of MassNAHRO. “Their commitment to residents makes a real difference in communities across the Commonwealth.”
“We’re honored to be recognized by an organization whose mission so closely reflects our own—building communities that empower residents, promote inclusion, and advance housing as a basic human right,” said Mike Lozano, Trinity’s vice president of development.
MassNAHRO presented the Development Partner of the Year Award at its annual conference in Norwood, Mass., where housing authorities and development partners gathered to highlight efforts addressing the state’s growing demand for quality affordable housing.
