Nonprofit Urban Edge recently released a report highlighting the priorities and the vision for the future that youth living in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain have for their community.
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Frank Shea began work as Urban Edge’s fourth director in its new office space on Columbus Avenue on November 3.
It is the fourth office space for Urban Edge. He is also the first director who did not come out of senior staff at the agency in its 41-year history. Proudly he said, “I am the first director born and raised in Jamaica Plain.”
Born in 1961 as a small boy living in the St. Thomas Aquinas parish on Rosemary Street he saw the razing of large chunks of Forest Hills for I-95.
“There’s really a lot of good people here (in Jamaica Plain),” said Shea. He spent some time talking about his prime emphasis as director. The good people of the Egleston-Jackson crossroads of Columbus Avenue-Washington Street and Columbus Avenue-Centre Street. He wants very much to connect them to each other, to their neighborhood and to the agency.
And Shea knows about how important it is for neighborhood residents to be connected to each other.