HOPE VI grants awarded

A total of $494 million was awarded in what may be the second-to-last round of HOPE VI funding. New urbanists participated in the design of more than half of the 28 projects announced in March, 2003, allocated in the 2002 budget. The program is funded at the same level in 2003, but is slated for elimination in the proposed 2004 budget. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development's HOPE VI program redevelops failed public housing projects into mixed-income neighborhoods. Among the new urbanist firms with projects selected were Wallace, Roberts & Todd (six), Torti Gallas & Partners/CHK (five), and Calthorpe Associates, Goody, Clancy & Partners, and Urban Design Associates (one each). Additionally, Winston Associates and Wolff-Lyon Architects collaborated on one project. Brief descriptions of the following projects were provided to New Urban News. See table for the complete list, locations, and amounts allocated. •Arrowhead Apartments and Thomas Bean Towers: Refurbishment of 449 units, plus 400 new homes, including townhouses, flats, condominiums and perimeter and courtyard-style apartments. Retail space added later. •Bethune Village and Halifax Park: 272 new on-site units, 222 off-site units, 60,000 square feet of retail. •Carver Court: 203 units, four floor building of senior units and a mix of apartments, townhouses and single-family units. •Champion Park: 150 units of single family housing of various configurations, primarily detached with a few twins. Includes an expansion of the recreation center. •Clarksdale: 453 on-site units, 599 off-site units in a mix of single family homes, duplex, triplex, townhouses, town over flat, six-unit apartments, nine-unit apartments. Mixed-use buildings and a new park. •East Boulevard and Oklahoma Street:120 new units, including single homes, townhomes, and four-plex apartments, in four neighborhood groupings. Limited commercial is planned. •Frazier Courts and Frazier Courts Addition: Replacing 550 apartments with 356 units in a mix of townhouse apartments, townhouses and single family homes. •George Foster Peabody Apartments: 304 new units, including attached townhouses, mixed townhouses , flats buildings and flats garden apartment buildings. 29,000 square feet of commercial and a 5,000 sq. ft. community center. •John Hanson/Roger Brook Taney Apartments: Approximately 100 units in a mix of one-bedroom flats, two-bedroom stacked flats, and three- and four-bedroom townhouses. •Harbor View Homes: 192 new units in a mix of duplex and single family detached, new community center. •Happy Hill Gardens: 488 existing units to be replaced with 202 new one and two-bedroom apartments, a 100-unit senior building, and 98 single-family detached and townhouse units. •Highland Park: 276 units to be replaced with 152 visitable homes. •Ohioview Acres: Construction at two separate sites totaling 221 units, including townhouses and single-family units. • Quinnipiac Terrace/Riverview: 256 units to be replaced with a mixed-income community consisting of 226 residential units and a 5,500 sq. ft. community center. •Woodland Terrace: 153 new units in a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom for-sale and rental homes.