A rendering of the first phase, a twenty-four-unit, three-story building with a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIHA) can proceed with a seventy-two-unit senior housing development in the Airport Heights neighborhood. The 4.3-acre wedge at the corner of DeBarr Road and Northway Drive, an area known as Northway Business Park, required rezoning, which the Anchorage Assembly approved last month.
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The rezone eliminated a “special limitation” in place since 1982 that required a site plan review for development. CIHA President and CEO Gabe Layman says, “We are grateful to our partners in the mayor’s office and the Assembly for considering new tools, resources, and local partnerships to create more affordable housing opportunities in Anchorage.”
The senior housing campus is the first project to successfully utilize rezoning policy reform as part of Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s goal to add 10,000 dwellings in Anchorage by 2035…