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NEW YORK CITY — Concern for Independent Living, a nonprofit supportive housing provider, has opened the 65-unit Rochester Avenue Apartments in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in New York City. The nonprofit repositioned the former St. Mary's Hospital facility to house the apartment community. The cost to redevelop the property was $24.56 million, and the property's financing included $10 million in federal low-income housing tax credits, a $13 million NYS Office of Mental Health grant, a $900,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York in partnership with Astoria Federal Savings, a $6.5 million Bank of America Merrill Lynch construction loan and $13 million in permanent financing from CPC.