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2008A Funding Round Recipients
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Coltrane Commons
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Sponsor:
Orion Partners II, LLC
Total units: 78
Total AHP grants: $550,000
Total development costs: $13,932,032
Coltrane Commons will acquire and rehabilitate a Section 8 assisted rental property (Hedgerow Apartments) at 16th Street and Allegheny Avenue consisting of seven contiguous buildings. The property was built in 1949 and is in need of substantial renovation. Rehabilitation work will include making units handicap-accessible, creating a community room with a computer training area, new electrical and HVAC, greater energy efficiency both in appliances and building materials and a new security system. Social services will be provided for the residents.
Evelyn Sanders Townhouses - Phase I
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Sponsor:
Women’s Community Revitalization Project
Total units: 40
Total AHP grants: $361,680
Total development costs: $13,129,762
Evelyn Sanders Townhouses will consist of 40 units of new construction rental housing in Phase I. The townhouses will be designed to serve low-income families with special needs earning 50% or less of the area median income in the Fairhill neighborhood. The two- and three-story structures will feature two-, three- and four-bedroom units, over half of them dedicated to serving large families. Twenty percent of the units will be wheelchair-accessible. Each unit will have its own entrance, and the buildings will be designed to weave seamlessly into existing housing stock.
Francisville East
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
PNC Bank, N.A.
Sponsor:
Community Ventures
Total units: 44
Total AHP grants: $500,000
Total development costs: $15,393,274
To be located in the 1500 block of Poplar Street in a North Philadelphia neighborhood undergoing reinvestment and gentrification, Francisville East is proposed as a last-opportunity answer for affordable housing in a neighborhood of rising land values and housing costs. With the City of Philadelphia making a substantial investment, Francisville East will meet the affordable housing and blight-reduction objectives of community leaders. To be comprised of 44 rental units - 43 of them newly constructed - 27 one-bedroom units will be geared to seniors and households requiring accessibility while five four-bedroom units will serve single families. Solar and hot water systems to be installed on the roof will generate an estimated $7,500 reduction in utility bills. Additionally, 12 single-family homes will be built on the north side of Poplar Street. Extensive social services will be provided by the Philadelphia Seniors Center.
Gaudenzia Philly House
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
Sovereign Bank
Sponsor:
Gaudenzia Foundation, Inc.
Total units: 45
Total AHP grants: $650,000
Total development costs: $2,195,684
Gaudenzia Foundation will expand the supply of rental housing for homeless adults with special needs by providing transitional housing for 45 special-needs single men. Philly House will take shape through the rehabilitation of a three-story dwelling and adding 3,600 square-feet of new construction to meet the needs of men recently discharged from jail and recovering from substance abuse. The majority of residents will live at Philly House for 12-24 months. Philly House, once known as Clearfield Place, occupies a new site which allows the number of homeless men served to be enlarged. The program reflects the City of Philadelphia’s ten-year plan to end homelessness.
Guild House East
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Sponsor:
Friends Rehabilitation Program, Inc.
Total units: 90
Total AHP grants: $650,000
Total development costs: $17,322,105
This project, located at 711 Spring Garden Street, is a 66,000 square-foot building with six stories and 90 units. It will provide affordable shelter to one of Philadelphia’s most vulnerable populations, the low-income elderly. Built in 1965, Guild House East was one of the first federally funded elderly housing projects in the country and is also considered one of the most important architectural and historical icons in the city. GHE, designed by the celebrated architect Robert Venturi, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. Extensive interior and exterior renovations will include the creation of five handicap-accessible units and two for the hearing- or visually-impaired. FHLBank’s AHP funding closes the project’s funding gap and allows it to be completed.
HART 2B
Allentown, PA
Member:
Keystone National Bank & Trust
Sponsor:
Allentown Housing Authority
Total units: 50
Total AHP grants: $250,000
Total development costs: $13,162,667
HART Phase 2B is the fourth phase of the redevelopment of the former Hanover Acres/Riverview Terrace public housing project built in the 1930s. HART, functionally obsolete, is being replaced with a totally affordable housing campus comprised of 269 new units of rental housing. The first two phases have been opened, and the developer is constructing 53 homeownership units for a mix of incomes as well as converting an historic train depot into a community building. Phase 2B consists of 22 one-bedroom units, 13 two-bedroom units, 11 three-bedroom units and four four-bedroom units. The City of Allentown views the entire campus as the answer to a longstanding eyesore and as a catalyst for private development. AHP funding has supported earlier phases of this project.
Hopewell Village
Elverson, PA
Member:
Wilmington Trust Company
Sponsor:
Delaware Valley Development Company
Total units: 71
Total AHP grants: $550,000
Total development costs: $12,172,301
Hopewell Village is located in Elverson Borough in northwest Chester County on the border of Berks County. The existing Elverson firehouse will be acquired along with a former railroad right-of-way and adaptively reused through rehabilitation as well as new construction. Hopewell Village will include 71 units of housing for seniors. The Coatesville Area Senior Center will open a satellite office onsite that will serve clients four days per week.
Jannie’s Place
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
Valley Green Bank
Sponsor:
People’s Emergency Center CDC
Total units: 26
Total AHP grants: $650,000
Total development costs: $8,743,455
Jannie’s Place will serve 26 formerly homeless women and their children. The project will consist of 33,000 square feet - nine preservation units and 22,800 square-feet of new construction units. The preservation portion will consist of nine apartments on the third floor of a closed factory that also houses a PEC shelter. The new units will be located in a three-story building with a community room.
Mt. Tabor Senior Cyber Village
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
PNC Bank, N.A.
Sponsor:
Mt. Tabor Community Education and Economic Development Corp.
Total units: 56
Total AHP grants: $297,397
Total development costs: $14,839,699
Mt. Tabor will provide affordable rental housing for low-income seniors 55 and above. This new construction, four-story building will consist of one- and two-bedroom units in the 900 block of North 7th Street in the rapidly gentrifying North Liberties section of Philadelphia. The developer’s parent, Mt. Tabor AME Church, has long maintained a presence in this neighborhood. All of the 56 units in this project will be earmarked for residents with incomes at or below 50 percent of the area median income. The first floor lounge, computer and fitness rooms will access a landscaped courtyard. The Cyber Village will offer a digitally- accessible building with computer learning a primary emphasis.
NewCourtland Fitzsimmons Day Apartments
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
PNC Bank, N.A.
Sponsor:
NewCourtland Elder Services
Total units: 26
Total AHP grants: $500,000
Total development costs: $807,091
A 26-unit apartment building on NewCourtland’s Germantown campus in Mt. Airy will be renovated to house seniors who have recently left nursing homes but need additional support to live independently. The two-story building will offer residents medical monitoring technology free of charge. This project will broaden the spectrum of residential options available on the NewCourtland campus, which now encompass a nursing home, an apartment building, cottage development for seniors with dementia and administrative offices.
Penn Villa
Sellersville, PA
Member:
Univest National Bank & Trust
Sponsor:
Penn Foundation
Total units: 23
Total AHP grants: $390,000
Total development costs: $4,842,665
Fully dedicated to special-needs residents, Penn Villa, located in Bucks County, is intended to provide supportive housing for individuals with chronic mental illness. Penn Foundation, founded in 1955, will build five townhomes with three (3) single-room occupancy (SRO) units in each, as well as a group home with eight (8) SRO units. Penn Foundation will assist residents in entitlement services and in the coordination of on- and off-site events. Penn Villa will be located within two miles of shopping, entertainment and health care.
Saint Stanislaus Apartments
Nanticoke, PA
Member:
PNC Bank, N.A.
Sponsor:
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton
Total units: 30
Total AHP grants: $165,000
Total development costs: $7,945,573
The former St. Stanislaus Orphanage and School at 141 Newport Street was dedicated to providing services to dependent Polish children. It served as both orphanage and school until 1968. Thirty general occupancy units will be built into the existing three- and four-story twin buildings, designed in the Spanish Mission style. Four units will be wheelchair-accessible. A full array of retail and professional services are available within one mile of the property and a community college is about two miles from the site.
Temple I North 16th
Philadelphia, PA
Member:
Firstrust Bank
Sponsor:
1260 Housing Development Corporation
Total units: 70
Total AHP grants: $420,000
Total development costs: $20,226,515
Containing 14 units for the homeless and four others for the physically handicapped, this project will entail the renovation of 58 units and the addition of 12 new ones. The units are located in 26 row home buildings on either side of the street, with vacant lots interspersed across the project footprint. The buildings need significant improvements to bring them up to current building code standards and to make them marketable.
West Hazleton Elderly
West Hazleton, PA
Member:
Luzerne Bank
Sponsor:
Housing Authority of Luzerne County
Total units: 30
Total AHP grants: $650,000
Total development costs: $4,274,960
The Housing Authority is constructing units to be rented to persons with incomes at or below 80 percent of area median income, with emphasis on those below 50 percent AMI. Six units will be dedicated to serving the physically handicapped. The project was initiated in response to the Borough’s Act 47 Recovery Plan. The Borough has donated land which previously was home to an unused school.
Central Pennsylvania
Chambersburg Family Town Homes
Chambersburg, PA
Member:
Farmers & Merchants Trust Company
Sponsor:
Housing & Neighborhood Development Service (HANDS)
Total units: 40
Total AHP grants: $650,000
Total development costs: $8,943,985
HANDS, in partnership with PIRHL Developers, will construct 40 lease-to-purchase town homes. The development will be located on 5.6 acres at Buchanan Road and Redwood Street. Two-, three- and four-bedroom units will serve tenants with income ranging between 20 and 60 percent of the area median income. Beginning in their 16th year of residency, tenants will be able to purchase their homes. The development sits within the Borough’s Elm Street Program revitalization area.
York URM Women & Family Center
York, PA
Member:
Fulton Bank
Sponsor:
York Union Rescue Mission
Total units: 49
Total AHP grants: $500,000
Total development costs: $752,092
The present Women and Children’s Center at the York Union Rescue Mission is dilapidated and lacks the capacity to meet housing demand. The building, however, is structurally sound and worthy of renovation. This project will renovate 24 units of existing housing in two adjacent buildings, while building out an additional 25 units. Residents at York Union receive a full complement of case management, including nutrition, medical care, drug and alcohol counseling, employment counseling and support groups. York Union Rescue Mission was founded in 1962.
Western Pennsylvania
Braddock’s Field
Pittsburgh, PA
Member:
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Sponsor:
Mon Valley Initiative
Total units: 13
Total AHP grants: $143,000
Total development costs: $3,050,144
Braddock’s Field is part of a comprehensive revitalization initiative that addresses blight along the Monongahela River. Phase I in Braddock has already been completed with the construction of seven new homes along Verona Street. Phases I and II in North Braddock have also been completed with a total of nine homes built. When this project is brought online, the Parker-Moody and Hawkins-Middle neighborhoods in North Braddock will be significantly enhanced through the demolition of seven vacant buildings and the construction of 13 new energy-efficient, single-family homes, each with a garage and ample yard.
Community Homes Rehabilitation
New Brighton, PA
Member:
ESB Bank
Sponsor:
McGuire Memorial
Total units: 39
Total AHP grants: $200,220
Total development costs: $200,220
This project consists of extensive renovation work to be done on properties managed by the McGuire Memorial Community Homes Program, which offers affordable shelter to individuals with mild to severe disabilities who are affiliated with McGuire’s adult training, employment center or other programs. Homes in North Sewickley, New Brighton, Chippewa and Rochester will undergo extensive repair work to make them more livable.
Emerald Estates Preservation
Gallitzin, PA
Member:
C&G Savings Bank
Sponsor:
IDA Community Development Corporation
Total units: 35
Total AHP grants: $650,000
Total development costs: $1,000,924
This 35-unit apartment complex for the elderly in Cambria County will be renovated to enhance the safety and quality of life of residents as well as project marketability. The most significant improvement will be the re-grading and refinishing of the parking lot. In addition, site lighting will be replaced to enhance safety as well as appearance. Remaining site work includes upgraded interior safety systems, replacement of sidewalks, landscaping and enhanced energy efficiency in windows and doors.
Fairview Family Homes
Fairview, PA
Member:
Northwest Bancorp
Sponsor:
Housing & Neighborhood Development Services (HANDS)
Total units: 28
Total AHP grants: $325,000
Total development costs: $6,536,258
This Erie County project will consist of 28 single-family homes on a 17-acre site on West Ridge Road just east of Route 98. HANDS will serve as developer and property manager. PIRHL Developers will serve as co-developer.
South Hills Retirement Residence
Pittsburgh, PA
Member:
PNC Bank, N.A.
Sponsor:
a.m. Rodriguez Associates and ACTION Housing
Total units: 84
Total AHP grants: $600,000
Total development costs: $15,953,146
Located in the Mount Washington community, work on the site of the former South Hills High School, closed 20 years ago, will produce a mixed-use facility incorporating 115,000 square-feet of affordable apartments for seniors, 28,000 square-feet for 25 market-rate units of housing, 5,000 square-feet for a daycare center and 7,000 square-feet for a fitness and wellness facility. With the support of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and the benefit of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, this residence will serve seniors with incomes not exceeding 60 percent of the area median income. Ten accessible units will serve residents with incomes of 20 percent or less of AMI. The Pittsburgh Board of Education made a significant investment to repair the school and pave the way for conversion to mixed-use.
Third East Hills Apartments
Pittsburgh, PA
Member:
PNC Bank, N.A.
Sponsor:
3rd East Hills Limited Partnership
Total units: 47
Total AHP grants: $622,750
Total development costs: $13,412,698
Located on Bracey Drive, 47 new LIHTC rental units will be created to complement East Hills Homes, a homeownership project also being undertaken in the area by the same sponsor. Both projects are outgrowths of the 2004 East Hills Visioning Plan that enjoyed wide citizen participation. East Hills Homes was awarded funding in a prior AHP funding round.
Delaware
Life Lines, 8th and Dupont
Wilmington, DE
Member:
Citicorp Trust Bank
Sponsor:
West End Neighborhood House
Total units: 3
Total AHP grants: $50,000
Total development costs: $243,530
Life Lines will renovate a 100-year-old townhome so three youth being discharged from the state foster care system have a place to live and also receive supportive services. Approximately 65 foster youth are released each year, and most cannot return to their families. Financial education, employment counseling and other assistance will be provided to the residents of Life Lines.
New Hope Place: Southbridge Homeownership
Wilmington, DE
Member:
Citicorp Trust Bank
Sponsor:
Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware
Total units: 5
Total AHP grants: $50,000
Total development costs: $1,058,878
Building on the original ten units of affordable housing on Townsend Street across from partner New Hope Baptist Church, New Hope Place (the project’s new name) will create five additional units in the area along B Street. Derelict row homes will be demolished, clearing the way for three-bedroom homes with energy-efficient features.
West Virginia
Farmington Gardens
Farmington, WV
Member:
WesBanco
Sponsor:
Fairmont Community Development Partnership
Total units: 25
Total AHP grants: $465,928
Total development costs: $4,065,928
A multi-story rental complex for seniors, Farmington Gardens is located in Downtown Farmington. Units will serve seniors with incomes between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income, and at least five units will serve special needs tenants. Two of the units will be handicap-accessible. Computer stations will be used as a learning center, with regular instruction at no cost to tenants.
Out of District
Bank Street Senior Housing
Batavia, NY
Member:
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Sponsor:
United Memorial Medical Center
Total units: 37
Total AHP grants: $118,802
Total development costs: $8,221,462
Bank Street Senior Apartments is a key initiative in Batavia’s Comprehensive Plan to eliminate downtown blight and revitalize this Genessee County community. The top four floors of the seven-story Bank Street Campus Building are vacant and will be the focal point of conversion to 37 apartments for seniors earning 60 percent or less of the area median income. The bottom three floors are operated by sponsor United Memorial and house a variety of medical services for the community, activities outside the scope of the AHP funding.
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