The grand opening for the Oakview Walk apartments, the Decatur Housing Authority’s latest redevelopment, is 10-11 a.m., July 17, at 1111 Oakview Road in Decatur. Since onsite parking is limited, attendees are urged to park along Maxwell Street.
Oakview Walk covers .81 acres and features 34 units. Twenty-seven of those are affordable housing (for families up to 60% of area median income) and seven are workforce housing units (for families up to 100% of area median income).
This replaces the old apartments at 1111 Oakview, built in 1961 and turned into affordable housing in 1982, which had only 24 units.
To date the Decatur Housing Authority has spent $55,708,103 on redeveloping the city’s public housing, starting in 2009, which includes 312 of its total 484 housing units.
The next project is a “rehabilitation” (as opposed to razing and rebuilding, as with Oakview) of the 98-unit Swanton Heights, built in 1970. Work is scheduled to begin this summer including moving families off and then back on site in shifts during construction. One of the temporary off-site locations includes Legacy Park (the old United Methodist Children’s Home), which has housing for 10 families in four duplexes and two single-family homes on the property.
The Swanton Heights rehabilitation is expected to take 30 months.
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