Developer Plans 100 Affordable Apartments In Downtown San Jose
A developer has filed designs to build a combined-use apartment complex with nearly 100 cost-effective models in Downtown San Jose.
Los Gatos-centered Milestone Housing Team has proposed the 99-device complicated on two parcels it just acquired by means of an affiliate around the corner of East Santa Clara Avenue and South 20th Road, the San Jose Mercury News noted. It paid out a combined $5.1 million for the houses.
The combined-use advanced would incorporate 2,500 feet of floor-floor shops and restaurants at 934, 938, 942 and 948 E. Santa Clara St., and would necessarily mean demolishing commercial properties made up of existing firms.
Milestone Housing acquired the two parcels on approximately 50 % an acre this month with a one-story developing that contains a bridal store, tailor store and natural beauty lounge. A 2nd building properties an automobile overall body and paint store.
At the same time, the developer secured $4.8 million in funding from Business Local community Mortgage Fund, a nonprofit that specializes in funding affordable houses, the newspaper reported.
“San Jose desperately requires to construct as a lot cost-effective housing as it can muster,” said Bob Staedler, principal govt with Silicon Valley Synergy, a land-use consultancy.
The actual estate developer did not react to a request for remark about its housing strategies.
Milestone Housing, started in 2019, has formulated three housing initiatives in San Jose and solitary household jobs in Livermore, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and in Santa Cruz, in accordance to its web page.
“We deliver housing for people today and family members with a variety of requirements, such as long term housing for the homeless, veterans and persons with disabilities, together with common family and senior housing,” the enterprise states.
San Jose, with some of the highest dwelling price ranges and rents in the nation, has fallen considerably shorter of meeting its state-mandated housing goals.
From January 2014 to this Oct, it was intended to construct almost 21,000 cost-effective housing models. By previous thirty day period, it had created 5,057 inexpensive models – while surpassing plans for current market-fee housing.
And that does not involve the 62,000 units San Jose must build in the future housing component by 2031, of which extra than 50 percent need to be for households of quite very low, minimal and average incomes.
[San Jose Mercury News] – Dana Bartholomew
