Renovated Alder Crest Apartments provides housing for low- and very low-income residents

You are invited to the reopening celebration on March 21

SEATTLE—March 14, 2007—You are invited to help celebrate the transformation and grand reopening of the renovated Alder Crest Apartments near High Point in West Seattle from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on March 21. A brief program will begin at 3 p.m. in the courtyard in front of the apartment building located at 6520 35^th Ave. SW. 

Alder Crest Apartments was once a run-down building that became the bane of its neighborhood. After undergoing extensive renovations, it is now a showpiece for the possibilities of redevelopment and a place people have already started to call “home.”

Lonnie Visor recently moved into the Alder Crest Apartments and checks out the just-installed signboard

The apartments will provide housing for low- and very low-income households. Eight units have been set aside for families transitioning from homelessness with case management services provided by a Sound Families contract with Catholic Community Services King County.   

Every one of the 36 apartments – 24 one-bedroom units and 12 two-bedroom units – was gutted and rebuilt. The building has a new roof, new siding, new windows, and a new heating system. It even has a repaved parking lot and alley. All cabinets and appliances are new; and every unit has a dishwasher and its own washer and dryer.  Mobility access was enhanced with the addition of an elevator and ramps.  

The renovation of Alder Crest Apartments was made possible through SHA’s partnership with Wachovia Securities/TCIG Tax Credit Fund II LLC, City of Seattle, Washington State Housing Finance Commission, Washington State Housing Trust Fund and Sound Families/Gates Foundation.  

Parking for the event is available at the neighboring High Point Management Office, in the Alder Crest Apartments’ parking lot behind the building and on neighboring streets. Please contact Sibyl Glasby at (206) 615-3532 with any questions.

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