COMMUNITY SERVINGS.

2019, Boston (Jamaica Plains), MA. Renovation, mixed-use. Project design by Jacobs, for Community Servings, David B. Waters. 13,000 square feet expansion, with three new levels. Key features include renovations to the existing building to allow for expansions in the kitchen; areas of volunteer meal preparation, food service training; and storage. There was also a food and health policy center introduced for research on their work of medically-tailored meals, and how to replicate the model elsewhere.

Project Focus:

“...For 30 years, we’ve been focused on bringing nutritious, scratch-made, medically tailored meals to our neighbors in need. With the opening of our new Food Campus, we plan to double and eventually triple the amount of meals we prepare and deliver over the next ten years,” said David B. Waters, CEO of Community Servings. “Our goal is to ensure that people across the Commonwealth who are living with critical and chronic illnesses receive the nutritious meals they need to maintain and improve their health....” https://www.shawmut.com/news/community-servings-unveils-25-million-expansion-to-food-campus https://www.servings.org/foodisthefoundation/news-updates/community-servings-breaks-ground-on-food-campus/

This precedent was chosen because of its program type, teaching kitchen program, and variety of teaching kitchen spaces. Throughout the three-story building, there are teaching kitchens dedicated to learning, family-friendly volunteering, and baking. In this way, they provide a variety of areas for different food/cooking preferences and different types of people (i.e., individuals, families, and community groups).