Dorchester’s Shuttered Carney Hospital Site Finally Has a Redevelopment Plan That Needs Major Zoning Relief

Silver Carney Dorchester LLC has filed a Letter of Intent to redevelop the former 12.8-acre Carney Hospital site in Dorchester into a 930,000 SF mixed-use project including healthcare, 500 housing units, retail, and educational space.

HYM Investment Group and nonprofit partner My City at Peace have set their sights on transforming the shuttered Carney Hospital campus in Dorchester into a large-scale mixed-use development spanning nearly one million SF across five buildings.

Silver Carney Dorchester LLC, the entity formed around the joint venture, owns the approximately 12.8-acre property at 2100 and 2110 Dorchester Avenue. After Carney Hospital closed in 2024, the site became the subject of significant community planning activity. Mayor Wu and Governor Healey jointly convened the Dorchester Health Planning Working Group, which spent months assessing healthcare and social service gaps in the affected neighborhoods. Its April 2025 report called for returning health-related uses to the campus while also addressing housing needs, including affordable and senior options.

Community outreach conducted by the development team over the past year surfaced consistent priorities: restored healthcare access, new housing, retail, and potential job training or educational programming. Those themes are directly reflected in the proposed program.

The five-building scheme would deliver approximately 290,000 SF of healthcare uses, 200 units of senior housing totaling roughly 220,000 SF, 300 units of market-rate and affordable multifamily housing at 320,000 SF, 50,000 SF of educational space, and 50,000 SF of retail. Subsurface parking would provide approximately 535 spaces.

Situated within the Multifamily Residential subdistrict of the Dorchester Neighborhood District under Article 65 of the Boston Zoning Code, the site will require zoning relief for healthcare and clinic uses, elderly housing, retail, and deviations from dimensional standards including FAR, building height, and open space requirements. The development team has formally initiated Article 80B Large Project Review by filing a Letter of Intent with the Boston Planning Department, addressed to Chief of Planning Kairos Shen on May 20, 2026.

The project is proposed by Silver Carney Dorchester LLC, a joint venture of The HYM Investment Group and My City at Peace, for the site at 2100 and 2110 Dorchester Avenue in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, totaling approximately 930,000 SF across a 12.8-acre former hospital campus.