BOSTON — A 44-unit income-restricted apartment building opened in Roxbury on Wednesday, the latest addition to the redevelopment of a former MBTA bus yard known as Bartlett Station, the City of Boston said.

The Mayor's Office of Housing joined the nonprofit developer Urban Edge, Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, elected officials and residents to mark the opening of the building, 59 Bartlett Station, the city said.

The project grew out of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan, which identified the 8.5-acre bus yard as a site for new housing and economic development, according to the city. Residents helped shape it through public meetings, design workshops and neighborhood planning committees beginning in the early 2000s, the city said, and their input influenced its mix of affordable and market-rate housing, public spaces and space for local businesses. After years of environmental cleanup and planning, construction on the site began in 2017.

"Bartlett Station has been years in the making, shaped by the ideas, determination, and commitment of Roxbury residents," said Sheila A. Dillon, the city's chief of housing.

Funding came in part from the Mayor's Office of Housing, the Neighborhood Housing Trust, the city's Community Preservation Fund, the state Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, MassHousing, CEDAC, MassSave, RBC Capital Markets and JPMorgan Chase, the city said. The release did not give the project's cost or the income limits for the apartments.

MassHousing CEO Chrystal Kornegay said the state housing finance agency had been a partner in all five phases of the Bartlett Station redevelopment.

The city said that since Mayor Michelle Wu took office, nearly 40,000 homes have been completed, started construction or advanced into the development pipeline, including nearly 12,000 income-restricted homes.

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