Following more than a decade of planning, and the snip of several scissors, a 98-unit affordable apartment building on Sligo Avenue in Silver Spring opened Monday morning.
All units at Bracken Square are considered affordable to households earning between 30% and 80% of the area’s median income.
The first tenants are expected to move into the building next week, which cost $55 million to develop and construct. The apartments are near a future Purple Line rail stop, as well as close to downtown Silver Spring and the MARC train. A parking garage sits beneath the rental units…