“It is time for it to be replaced.”
The master plan calls for a mixed-income community and will increase the housing density in the area from 433 units to 1,012. According to the plan, the goal is to include “multi-family housing, senior housing, market-rate housing and townhomes in a mixed-income development.”
About 80 percent of the units will be dedicated to addressing affordable housing in the community.
“I think we’ve got a real opportunity of making things happen here,” THA CEO Jerome Ryans said.
Ryans has been at the helm for most of THA’s more recent redevelopment efforts, including the West River project which encompasses the location of the old North Boulevard Homes, which is still under construction.
Tampa activist Joe Robinson at center of Rome Yard controversy Robinson signed a $75,000 contract with the Tampa Housing Authority a month before initiating a controversial move during the bid process.
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Joe Robinson (pointing to paper) , an engineer and lifelong West Tampa resident, talks with Leroy Moore of the Tampa Housing Authority about transportation projects planned for the West Tampa Community Redevelopment Area. The two took part in a listening and learning tour that the Florida Department of Transportation organized on Nov. 30, 2018. [ Times (2018) ]
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TAMPA â A disputed bid process in the cityâs prime development parcel already has some optic problems.
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Birds, bees, butterflies have new home thanks to Tampa Housing Authority
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Tampa Housing Authority plants butterfly garden
The Tampa Housing Authority has planted more native Florida plants in the Encore! community to attract birds, bees and butterflies.
TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Housing Authority paused its typical construction in the Encore! District to install something for a different type of resident. This area we re standing in right now is our technology park, shared David Hollis, grant administrator of the Tampa Housing Authority. Our last step in this was to change out the entire landscape package to a more Florida-type landscape.
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