A new Blue House Project development called St. Joseph Cottage Courtyard will provide so-called missing middle housing, which is a need laid out in Springfield’s comprehensive plan, Forward SGF.
Blue House is a project of the Drew Lewis Foundation that promotes homeownership in the Grant Beach Neighborhood. Blue House rehabs dilapidated, foreclosed and abandoned homes and sells them at an affordable rate to those enrolled in the nonprofit’s RISE program.
The St. Joseph project, in the 1100 block of N. Campbell Avenue across from St. Joseph Catholic Church, will include the renovation of a two-story turn-of-the-20th century home facing Campbell as well as the renovation of two additional homes on the property facing Scott Street.
“The little bungalow, we’ll actually have done probably at the end of the year, and we’ll sell that one as a residential,” said Amy Blansit, executive director of the Drew Lewis Foundation. “So it had been a law firm, and then they had used it for storage for years. And then we’ve converted it back into a really cute little bungalow.”…