New affordable and public housing is coming to Brownsville
The historic Brownsville neighborhood is getting an injection of brand-new affordable and public housing.
Lincoln Gardens, a three-phase residential project that will cover an entire city block between Northwest 46th and 48th Streets and Northwest 24th and 25th Avenues, will add a total of 211 rental apartments and 10 townhomes, all earmarked for public, affordable and senior housing.
The nine-acre project will be comprised of four three-story apartment buildings and a 10-townhome unit building. Apartments will range in size from two to four bedrooms. The development will also include a community center, gym and parking. The project also includes $2 million in improvements to the adjacent Marva Bannerman Park.
Forty-nine of the 134 apartments built during the first phase will be earmarked for public housing households earning 60% or less of the area median income ($58,840 for a family of four). Another 33 units will be earmarked as affordable (households earning 60% or less of the AMI) and 52 units will go to households earning 80% of the AMI ($73,120 for a family of four).
Phase two of the project will add 77 units for senior households at or below 60% AMI.
The third phase will add 10 townhomes available for home ownership.
The $41 million project will be funded in part by $6.7 million in county funds and $11 million in operational and rental subsidies doled out over 15 years. Related Urban Development Group will build the project and retain a 75-year lease to the site, which will remain county property.
Construction on the first phase of the project will begin in October 2020 and is scheduled to be completed by February 2022. Full completion of all three phases is scheduled for 2023.
In August, Related broke ground on a large renovation project in Allapattah, located inside an Opportunity Zone, that will add 383 affordable units to that area.
This story was originally published September 9, 2020 at 10:22 AM.
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