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	Planning Initiatives:
	1. Mattapan Economic Development Initiative Did you know that Mattapan’s roadways and thoroughfares are some of the most hea...

	Development Projects:
	1. 422 River Street
	2. 872 Morton Sreet
	3. Mass Bio Lab Phase II
	4. Mattapan Community Health Center
	5. Mattapan Heights Five Chapter 121A Project
	6. Olmsted Green Lena Park CDC and Brooke Charter Sch
	7. Olmsted Green Phase III

	Jobs and Community Services Programs:
	1. ABCD: Mattapan Family
	2. HAITIAN AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE -- Haitian School Success Program
	3. MATTAHUNT COMMUNITY CENTER -- Spirit After-School Program
	4. MATTAPAN COMMUNITY CENTER -- After-School Tutoring and Enrichment

	Maps: Go to: www.mapjunction.com/BRA for the Boston Atlas main web site.
	1. Blue Hill Avenue/Morton Street
	2. Franklin Field
	3. Mattapan Square

	Publications:
	1. ACS 2007-2011 Estimate- Mattapan  2013 - PDF
	2. ACS 2007-2011 Estimate-Mattapan  2013 - PDF
	3. Mattapan 2010 SF-1 NBRHD  2011 - PDF
	4. Mattapan 2010 SF-1  2011 - PDF
	5. ACS 2005-2009 Estimate-Mattapan  2011 - PDF
	6. ACS 2005-2009 Estimate-Mattapan  2011 - PDF
	7. Mattapan 2010 Population Census  2011 - PDF
	8. Mattapan Neighborhood 2010 Census  2011 - PDF
	9. 583 Mattapan - 2000 Census of Population and Housing  2003 - PDF
	10. SF1data13 Mattapan/Franklin  2002 - PDF
	11. 479 Mattapan 1990 Census of Population & Housing  1993
	12. 444 Mattapan Planning District STF 1 1980-1990 Populattion  1992
	13. 424 Mattapan Population & Housing Profile, 1990 STF 1  1991
	14. 326 Mattapan Neighborhood Profile, 1985  1988

	Links:
	1. Mattapan Friends Association