Work started in mulford garden housing comples today Tuesday, December 9 2008. Bulldoze razed several building it yonkers first demolition and the country oldest public housing complexes and mulford garden beginning phase of $180 million ashburton urban renewal plan .
The plans includes making a neighborhood style housing, wider streetscapes, on street parking, better lighting and yard space. The new townhouse style homes will fit in with the surrounding community and better housing policies will create more opportunity for residents to advance.
The mulford gardens was 17 building and 550 units, all of which have been vacant for more than a year. The new housing stock is from HOPE VI housing grant $20 million and $180 Millions are from the urban renewal program . The projects included in the program are:
· Demolition of Mulford Gardens
· Creation of more than 450 replacement housing units, the first of which (Croton Heights Apartments -- a building with 60 affordable units) will open this month
· Street widening of Ashburton Avenue to accommodate better east-west navigation and more parking
· Streetscaping projects along Ashburton Avenue to beautify the neighborhood with new streetlights, benches, planters, pavers and more
· Construction of new public parks along the Ashburton Avenue corridor to create a neighborhood community
• 2009 opening of 62-unit Fr. Pat Carrol Green neighborhood development on corner Ashburton & Nepperhan Avenues -- affordable housing OWNERSHIP opportunities
The first of the replacement housing stock, a 60-unit affordable housing building known as Croton Heights Apartments, was constructed off-site only a few blocks away, and will open to the first new residents next week. Also included in the first phase of Mulford Garden's replacement housing is a senior citizen affordable housing building located on Ashburton Avenue that is scheduled to open in 2009.
Later stages include the redevelopment of the Mulford Gardens site into a neighborhood of low- and mixed- income housing that will blend with the surrounding community, a stark contrast to the cordoned of enclave that was Mulford Gardens. The Mulford Gardens site redevelopment is expected to last through 2010.
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