One Neighborhood Builders behind $2.2M modular home project in Providence

Marc Larocque

03/08/2022

A MODULAR UNIT IS RAISED by a crane on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, to be lowered into place as part of the — A MODULAR UNIT IS RAISED by a crane on March 2 to be lowered into place as part of the "Bowdoin Street Rowhouse," an eight-unit affordable-housing development that's being developed by the nonprofit One Neighborhood Builders at the 101 Bowdoin St. site of a deadly fire that occurred in 2018. / PHOTO COURTESY STEPHEN IDE OF ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS

PROVIDENCE – They looked like children’s building blocks being stacked neatly together, as the prefabricated modular homes that make up the “Bowdoin Street Rowhouse” apartment complex in Providence were hoisted up and assembled recently by a crane operator. “It’s like an Erector or Lego set,” said Jennifer Hawkins, president and executive director of One Neighborhood…