The Mill Creek transformation plan envisions a mixed income neighborhood with major neighborhood amenities and a pedestrian shopping district. “It’s all mixed within the building units.”ĭavis said the project would provide “great diversity, great affordable housing” without putting a stigma on residents who will live there. “It’s not this building is public housing, this building is obtainable and this building is market rate,” he said. “The developer will maintain those,” he said.ĭavis said Huntsville Hospital is “greatly interested” in the obtainable units “for people who are working in the cafeteria and young nurses who are just getting started,” as well as other members of the hospital staff.ĭavis said housing “will be such that you will not recognize what is what.” The housing authority will retain ownership of the voucher units, but they won’t have to maintain the units, Davis said. Housing will be a mixture of housing authority voucher units, affordable units that Davis calls “obtainable units,” and market rate units “just like anything else downtown.”ĭavis said a private developer will be involved with the project along with the city and the housing authority. The site is also not far from the Stovehouse entertainment and restaurant venue, Campus 805 and Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment Center. “There will be some brownstones and townhomes and market rate townhomes.:”ĭavis called the project a “front door piece on Governors Drive” with walkability to the linear “riverwalk” park along Memorial Parkway that is part of the $65 million project that includes the skybridge – a suspended pedestrian bridge over the Parkway. “We’ve changed the plan some,” Davis told the Downtown Redevelopment Association last Tuesday. Housing and Urban Development Department to come up with a plan to transform Mill Creek housing and the area around it. The city and the housing authority were awarded $1.3 million in 2018 from the U.S. He said city planners have been working on the master plan for the last seven months with Urban Design Associates. Housing authority units on the site have been demolished, with many of the residents already evacuated because of radon-related health risks in some of the buildings.ĭavis said the public “will have a clear vision of what this project will look like” once the master plan is unveiled. The project, which will be done in phases over several years, will revitalize a 28-acre distressed neighborhood not far from downtown that included Butler Terrace, Butler Terrace Addition and Johnson Towers. The unveiling, which will include artist renderings, will reveal how the project will be implemented and what it will contain. Davis said city planners, city council members and Housing Authority board members met last week to work on the master plan.
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