Trinity Financial

Trinity Financial is a real estate development company based at Boston in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Founded in 1987 the firm focuses on sustainable, urban, multi-cultural, multi-income residential, and mixed-use development. Trinity Financial partners with federal agencies like the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and United States Environmental Protection Agency, state housing and development agencies, city development agencies like the Boston Redevelopment Authority, neighborhood associations, and community development organizations.

Projects

Trinity Financial projects include revitalization and preservation of existing structures, revitalization of public housing through HOPE VI grants, new construction, and tranist-oriented development (TOD). Most Trinity Financial projects embrace the precepts of defensible space and the New Urbanism through use of contextual heights, massing, and often adopting vernacular New England building styles and materials. The company's projects have been recognized for their high density "smart growth" design leaving spaces open for recreation, for community building, historic preservation, and energy efficiency.

Energy efficiency

Trinity Financial projects have also been recognized for energy efficiency by reducing carbon-emission footprints of its buildings through the use of electricity generating photovoltaic panels, and the offsetting of heating and cooling through the use of landscaping, and high-efficiency design. Energy efficiency is also encouraged by siting projects adjacent to mass public transit, reducing the need for individual car use.

Trinity Financial Charitable Fund

Trinity Financial operates the Trinity Financial Charitable Fund, a trust founded founded in 2006 with goals to

"enrich the quality of life in low-income and mixed income housing communities by providing grants that support educational opportunities, public service and neighborhood improvements, and create positive social change in creative, inclusive ways."

Individual Trinity Financial Charitable Fund grants have been awarded to the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, B’Nai B’rith New England, Boston Preservation Alliance, Boston YMCA, The Jimmy Fund Walk, Seeds of Peace, and the Young Achiever Science and Math School among others.

External links

* [http://www.trinityfinancial.com Trinity Financial website]
* [http://www.housingfinance.com/ahf/articles/2005/august/012_AHF_12-3.htm "Affordable Housing Finance" article on Trinity Financial's Newport Heights project]
* [http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/03/26/daily19.html "Boston Business Journal" article on new retail at Trinity Financial's Carruth project]
* [http://www.avenirboston.com/ Avenir transit-oriented devellopment]
* [http://www.thecarruth.com/ The Carruth transit-oriented development]