Local officials, Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services and the Sánchez family recently gathered to celebrate the opening of the Maria Sánchez House, an affordable senior rental housing development near Roxbury Crossing.

The $15.6 million, 40-unit, transit-oriented development is targeted toward residents 62 and older who earn at or below 50 percent of the area median income (AMI). Most of the residents earn around 30 percent or below of AMI. The building consists of one-bedroom apartments with features such as handicap-accessible elevators, central air conditioning, on-site laundry facilities, community space for programming, a courtyard and a deck with city views. The project generated approximately 45 construction jobs.

“It is critically important to maintain and add to our affordable housing market in the city, especially for our seniors who have helped make Boston the great city that it is today,” Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in a statement.

“This is the result of many years of hard work and many partners,” Representative Jeffrey Sánchez said in a statement. “Naming this for my mother honors her work and commitment to the Mission Hill community she loves with all her heart, but also represents all those community members who dedicated years to creating a vision for Roxbury Crossing that is now being realized … .”

The building is LEED Gold certified and also meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star standards. The city of Boston contributed more than $2.8 million to the construction, including Housing Creation Linkage funding from neighborhood institution Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. The commonwealth of Massachusetts also contributed more than $2.8 million to the development of this project. Land was donated for the project by Wentworth Institute of Technology and the city of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development.