Durham officials turn soil for Dillard Street Apartments construction. (Photo: Greg Childress/NC Newsline)
With “boots on the ground,” Durham officials on Tuesday celebrated the grand opening of The Vanguard Apartments and a groundbreaking for Dillard Street Apartments, both of which are part of a large, $200 million redevelopment effort that will add hundreds of affordable apartments to the city’s housing stock.
The mixed-income development downtown is a partnership between the Durham Housing Authority and developer Laurel Street Residential. It will replace 214 public housing units with 538 mixed-income homes, including 348 affordable units and 190 market-rate units. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the housing authority and City of Durham a $40 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant to support the redevelopment.
“The important thing is that we are keeping a promise made to the community,” Anthony Snell, Interim CEO of the Durham Housing Authority said in an interview with NC Newsline. “The community made a major investment in us [housing authority] to be the leader in the delivery of housing.”…