Community
Opportunities Group, Inc.
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Community Opportunities Group, Inc. was founded in 1979 to meet the housing and community development needs of cities and towns across New England. For many years, we specialized in the HUD Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and built our excellent reputation by helping clients to design, fund, and implement projects that improved the quality of life for people who lived and worked in the communities. Owing to our years of experience and the varied composition of our client base - from major cities in the Northeast to the villages of Berkshire Country, Connecticut and New Hampshire - we became recognized experts in packaging CDBG with other funding sources, and helped communities reach goals that previously seemed unattainable. COG's success in the housing and community development
field enabled us to expand the firm's
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Community Opportunities Group, Inc. 129 Kingston Street, 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02111 (617) 542-3300 coginc@cogincorp.com |
professional
horizons. We have managed numerous public construction projects
such as elderly housing, senior centers, parks, neighborhood infrastructure
and historic building restoration. We also offer technical assistance
in downtown revitalization, housing development, and regulatory compliance,
and capacity-building services to help small non-profit organizations
develop the wherewithal to grow. Today, planning occupies a highly
visible place in our firm's portfolio. Over the past five years,
COG's engagements have included master plans, district plan, open space
and recreation plans, fiscal impact studies, growth management plans,
housing studies, feasibility studies and predevelopment services.
Unlike many planning consultants, COG has direct local government experience:
we know how to plan and implement because we have
done both. Our hands-on work in community development makes us keenly
alert to the realities of local capacity and the challenges communities
face as they juggle competing agendas and needs. We pride ourselves
on our ability to understand and work with the political culture of each
city or town that hires us.