For almost 30 years, Damaris Pimentel frequented the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Jamaica Plain, getting her children baptized there, attending her sister’s wedding. Pimentel’s siblings even went to the K-12 Blessed Sacrament School.
That ended in 2004 when the church closed, and the Archdiocese of Boston sold it to the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation the following year for $6 million. That nonprofit created 80 affordable housing units on the Blessed Sacrament campus — 36 apartments in the Betsaida Gutierrez Cooperative, 16 affordable condos at Creighton St, and with Pine Street Inn, 28 affordable apartments for formerly homeless — but never managed to develop the church.