[Fountain-of-youth]

Whitewater Village will be a mixed-use development, but the first phase “up on the hill” will be residential only for both low-income subsidized residents and those paying market rates. The project is being funded through a second awarding of federal tax credits totaling $14 million, with site excavation starting this October and construction of the new buildings by Hollyhand Development expected to be completed by December of next year.

“When we were doing our strategic planning process, one of the things we learned is that everybody wants to get down to the river,” Mayrose said. “So we wanted to make walkways and pathways and roads and streets that would get everybody to the river because that’s a resource that we want our (current) families and our new families to take advantage of.”

Thus, the design is to make the first phase of the Whitewater Village residential development an urban neighborhood with plenty of trees, wide sidewalks and bicycle paths and improved streets. The plan includes widening 17th Street south to Fourth Avenue and eventually all the way to the river. Mayrose said the goal is to use the architecture and geographic design of the current phase of redeveloped property to give it “kind of an uptown feeling.”

There’s no time frame for when the next phase of the overall project will begin, the executive director said, although it will include additional residential areas and commercial property closer to the river.

BY THE NUMBERS

▪ Hidden Hills Trace will have nine buildings, 84 units and 100,000 square feet of space under roof altogether

▪ Whitewater Village will have seven buildings, 82 units and 120,000 square feet of space in all

https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/late...215662745.html

[Columbus1984]

Better than what is there currently. Wish they would have taken out the lower income portion and made it higher end. Will be curious to see how it turns out.

[columbusboy8]

Originally Posted by Columbus1984

Better than what is there currently. Wish they would have taken out the lower income portion and made it higher end. Will be curious to see how it turns out.

Speaking of higher end, and given the ever-increasing value of river-front land, I would think that fewer, but taller, buildings would be a better investment. Incorporating low income units is not a bad thing, as long as residents care about their opportunity to live in a nice place, and everybody takes care of what they have, looks out for each other, and the market rate and low income rate units are spread out evenly throughout the complex. All in all, this looks great, and I'm glad it's happening! I just wish the buildings were TALLER...and fewer!