This 400-unit development will replace an existing 100-unit public housing ‘project’ built during WWII for workers in the local shipyards. Located on four city blocks in a predominantly low-incomve neighborhood, the new community will include 150 affordable apartments for seniors, 215 affordable rental family flats and townhouses, and 36 homes for sale to first time buyers with a priority given to civil servants. Each of the blocks is organized into several groupings of families, clustered around secured, private pedestrian courts and separately secured private auto courts. Five of the existing historic structures will be restored and converted to new community uses and a museum.
Facilitated by Pyatok Architects, local residents and neighbors designed the development using a participatory design process which allowed them to model a variety of solutions for both site layouts and home designs.
