Mixed-Used Affordable Housing and Schools?

Is anyone aware of any examples of multi-story affordable housing with an elementary (or other) school on the ground floor? Is there anything out there like this? Please share any information! Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Kurt Creager on January 4, 2012 at 12:08am

Yes: Turtle Island Development in the Portland Oregon Pearl District is the developer of the Ramona Apartments designed by Ankrom Moisan Architects. It was conceived as affordable family housing with a ground floor elementary school and scaled back somewhat by Portland Public Schools during design development. Ed McNamara is the principal of this development company. Here is a link to AMAA's design portfolio: they do great work.

http://www.amaa.com/portfolio/project/?category=&project=227&am...

Kurt Creager; Urbanist Housing Solutions LLC

Kurt.Urbanist@gmail.com

Permalink Reply by Brian Peters on March 2, 2012 at 2:16pm

The closest thing in Milwaukee is Villard Square Apartments which is above the Villard Square Library. This was a recent project using LIHTC in cooperation with site of a library donated by city. More info at http://www.nwscdc.org/community/2011/08/31/villard-square-grandfami... and Google. The City liked this so much that they've in process of doing it again with the East Side Library, market-rate apartments this time. Info at http://www.jsonline.com/business/plan-commission-oks-revised-plan-f...