I just discovered that
this construction camera exists for the new downtown justice facility. It updates every hour or two during working hours with a new still image. It's at a good angle, and it has pretty good resolution. This one is from 4:00pm local time today -
Source:
senserasystems.com
Two posts ago, I mentioned that 530 S Rose St. was back in the queue for site plan review. It turns out that there is a new rendering after all, found at the article below. As I suspected, it looks relatively unchanged from the previous version (aside from the removal of the second garage door) -
There is a ton of info packed into the article above. It discusses 19 proposed housing initiatives that are receiving support from the county. The first 11 were approved on April 5 and amount to $2.6 million in funding support. The last 8 were previously approved on March 15 and amount to $7.2 million in funding support. Highlights below (a few have been previously discussed on here) -
1. $311,862 to support the construction of a new house on Ransom Street for a family earning 30 percent or less of the Area Median Income. One of four homes being developed by the Northside Association for Community Development.
2. $300,000 to support the construction of two houses in the City of Portage for families at 80 percent of the Area Median Income. Being developed by Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services.
3. $170,000 Funding to support the construction of four houses in Kalamazoo’s Eastside Neighborhood by Kalamazoo Valley Habitat for Humanity. Will be for families earning 30 percent of the Area Median Income.
4. Ampersee Home Start Initiative - $318,138 to support the construction of ten tiny homes along
Ampersee Avenue (near a former homeless encampment), in Kalamazoo's Eastside neighborhood. five tiny homes on foundations and five “tiny” homes on wheels in the area of Ampersee Avenue and the Kalamazoo River in the City of Kalamazoo. Developed by Playgrown -
Source:
Second Wave Media | Kalamazoo County
5. $75,000 for Better World Builders to perform critical repairs on up to four houses in the City of Galesburg.
6. $15,000 for supplies, exterior doors, porch materials, and replacement windows for homes in the
Ada Street corridor in Kalamazoo’s Northside Neighborhood. The work is being administered by Building Blocks of Kalamazoo.
7. $221,465 for a Community Development Block Grant allocation for housing rehabilitation in the City of Portage.
8. $688,535 for home repairs in the form of a grant / recoverable loan program for low & moderate-income families in Kalamazoo Township through the Homeownership Preservation Partnership.
9. $400,000 for the preservation of the Pinehurst Townhomes Project, a 96-unit development at
6740 Andover St. in Oshtemo Township. The project, administered by Full Circle Communities Inc., is intended to provide renovated space for families earning 30 to 60 percent of the Area Median Income.
10. $100,000 for the purchase of a four-unit house at
913 S. Westnedge Ave. to provide affordable / workforce rents for young people in need of assistance navigating life skills and employment. The project is being developed by Layla’s Cool Pops.
11. An additional $500,000 in grant funding to help support the Mt. Zion Northside Housing Senior Project (a housing project for individuals earning less than 30 percent of the Area Median Income
(*BrewInKzoo, this is the Hollander Development project that you mentioned in post #813, located at 125 E North St -see also #17, below).
12. $400,000 for Bogan's development (mentioned in an earlier post) to convert a contaminated former manufacturing site at
315 E. Frank St. into a nine-unit, multi-family housing development with a mixture of affordable and market-rate units as well as an on-site daycare center.
13. $2 million, in the form of a 9% tax credit for a 64-unit, mixed-income senior housing development at
522-530 South Rose St. Working as PGJ Developers LLC, the sponsoring partners of the project are Phil Seyfert, Garrett Seyfert, and Jon Durham, who were partners in the development of the nearby Harrison Circle Apartments -
Source:
Second Wave Media | Kalamazoo County
14. $1 million to help Young Kings & Queens Inc. to build BRIDGES Housing, a four-unit apartment building that would be built at
719 N. Burdick St. to provide housing for young adults with no previous renting experience -
Source:
Second Wave Media | Kalamazoo County
15. $1.5 million to develop the 344-unit Abbey42, multi-family housing at
5283 East O Ave. in Pavilion Township.
16. $500,000, in the form of a 4% tax credit to support the development of two 12-unit, affordable housing complexes to serve as permanent housing and provide support services for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking at
3405 Duke St. The units are targeted to serve households whose median incomes are less than 30 percent of median incomes in Kalamazoo County. The project, which has a total cost of $5.4 million, is working with several partner organizations including Housing Resources Inc., and YWCA Kalamazoo.
17. $740,000 for the development of the Mt. Zion Northside Senior Housing Development, a 74-unit multifamily apartment community for seniors to be located on land acquired from the Kalamazoo County Land Bank and the Kalamazoo Brownfield Redevelopment Authority in the 100 block of East North Street. The money is intended to fill the gap between the $21.3 million total development cost and expected available sources. The development is a project of Hollander Development Corp., working with Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Kalamazoo and nine other partner organizations.
18. $576,000 to support the development of Kalrecovery I & II, a $21.4 million project to provide housing for people recovering from substance abuse to be built on sites on Crosstown Parkway and Belford Street. Hollander Development Corp. is working on this one too, with more than a dozen partners, including Integrated Services of Kalamazoo and the Michigan Association of Treatment Court Professionals, to leverage state and private equity financing for the rent- and income-restricted apartment units. They include 24 new one-bedroom housing units for single people in drug treatment court programs, 12 new two- and three-bedroom apartments for families where the head of household is in recovery, and 36 new two- and three-bedroom apartments for low-income families with children that work but earn less than 60 percent of the area median income.
19. $500,000 to help the conversion of the former Knight’s Inn at
1211 S. Westnedge Ave. into Lodge House, an affordable, 60-unit studio apartment community. The LIFT Foundation, which strives to build, preserve, operate and maintain housing for low-income people, purchased the motel in January of 2020 to provide emergency shelter to help Kalamazoo’s homeless population survive the winter cold. It is converting the property into more permanent housing in a project that has a total cost of about $7.5 million -
Source:
Second Wave Media | Kalamazoo County
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