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SHA purchases three
multifamily properties in the Central Area
Purchase of Yesler Court, Main Street and
Main Street Place Apartments completes replacement housing for
Yesler Community Center
SEATTLE--June 1, 2004--The Seattle
Housing Authority acquired the Main Street Place apartments, the
third of three buildings in the Central Area, to complete
replacement of the 21 Yesler Terrace units demolished to make way
for the new Yesler Community Center.
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Main
Street apartments, located at 2035 S. Main, adjacent to
Blanche Lavizzo Park, has three 2-bedroom units and eight
3-bedroom units. Two of the three 2-bedroom units are
considered replacement housing.
Main Street Place apartments,
located at 308 22nd Avenue South just across from Seattle
Vocational Institute, has eight studio and 17 2-bedroom units. |
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Main Street
Place apartments |
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eight 2-bedroom units will count as replacement housing.
Main Street Place apartments also has several small commercial
spaces, currently leased to a barbershop and hair salon, the
property's former owner, and a nonprofit AIDS education and
awareness group. |
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Main Street
apartments |
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Yesler Court, at 114 23rd Avenue South
near the Douglass Truth Library, has three 1-bedroom and six 2-bedroom apartments. All three 1-bedroom and two of the
2-bedroom units will count as replacement housing. |
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Yesler Court |
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All three buildings have been built
within the last ten years and are within easy walking distance of
shopping at 23rd Avenue and Jackson Street, with good bus access on
Jackson, Yesler and 23rd Avenue.
All units considered replacement
housing will have a project-based Housing Choice Voucher to make
rents affordable to households with incomes below 30 percent of the
area median income.
In 2002, the Housing Authority
purchased 37 3-and 4-bedroom townhomes in the Central Area; six of
these are considered replacement units for the Yesler Community
Center.
The new Yesler Community Center is
under construction and scheduled to open later this year or in early
2005.
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