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NewHolly/Othello Station Redevelopment |
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Harry Thomas Community Center scheduled
to open in September
SEATTLE—August
8, 2007—On Sept. 5 from 5 - 7 pm
the Harry Thomas Community Center at Lee
House will open its doors for a
community open house. The renovation of
the original Lee House is currently
drawing to a close as volunteer
contractors and staff apply the
finishing touches to this community
remodel project. Renamed in honor of
former SHA Executive Director Harry
Thomas, the Lee House was built in the
early 1900s, long before the original
Holly Park housing was built. The newly
remodeled center will be available for
meetings and community events. The
second floor will serve as office space
for Neighborhood House staff. For more
details,
click here.
Holly Park replacement housing completed
SEATTLE—May
23, 2007—Replacing
more than 800 units of low-income
housing in Seattle is no easy task, but
Seattle Housing fulfilled its promise
this month by doing exactly that, as
part of the revitalization of the former
Holly Park housing project. As of the
beginning of May, all of the 871
low-income housing units originally
located at Holly Park have been replaced
and made available at NewHolly and
throughout the city to individuals and
families earning below 30 percent of
area median income. For more
information,
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Othello Station,
High Point receive awards
SEATTLE—July 12, 2006—Othello
Station and High Point were honored with awards over the
last month. Othello Station was recognized by the
Pacific Coast Builders Conference at their annual trade
show with a Gold Nugget Award for their Best Affordable
Project (Under 30 units/acre) category.
The American Institute of Architects awarded High Point
with one of eight "Show You're Green" Awards at their
national convention and design expo.
For details, click here.
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SEATTLE—January 16,
2006—When complete,
the Harry Thomas Community Center at Lee House will
provide small conference and meeting rooms for
neighborhood groups and NewHolly residents. Four
second-floor offices will be rented to neighborhood
businesses or non-profit organizations.
For more information,
click here.
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SEATTLE—February 22, 2006—SHA's
Family Self-Sufficiency program recently received grant
awards from the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and the Washington State Housing Finance
Commission. These awards will help provide services and
support to SHA residents in the Family Self-Sufficiency
program, and will fund the coordination of home
ownership education and counseling. For
more information,
click here.
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SEATTLE—January 7, 2005—Polygon
Northwest will host a home-buying seminar and tour of
their new model homes on Saturday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m. in
the NewHolly Neighborhood Campus Gathering Hall. Loan
representatives will also be available to offer assistance
to first-time home buyers. Othello Station is the third
phase of NewHolly redevelopment, where rental housing is
already built and occupied. Both Polygon Northwest and
Bennett/Sherman Homes are building new homes for sale
here. For more information,
click here.
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SEATTLE—January 22, 2005—A
celebration attended by more than two hundred patients and
supporters on January 22 marked the grand opening of the
new Holly Park Clinic at 3815 S. Othello St. Operated in
the neighborhood since 1996, the new clinic on the second
floor of the Othello Building will be able to accommodate
twice the number of patients as the original clinic on MLK,
Jr. Way. For more information on the new facility,
click here. |
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Home builders
active at Othello Station, gearing up at High Point
and Rainier Vista
SEATTLE—March 3, 2005—Interest
remains high in homes offered for sale in the
Othello Station area of NewHolly as Polygon
Northwest continues to build and offer new homes on
the market. The homes for sale program also took a
step forward recently at High Point and Rainier
Vista, with the conclusion of the sale of lots to
neighborhood home builders at both these sites. For
more information,
click here. |
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Support
helps restore historic NewHolly house
SEATTLE—April 4, 2005—Thanks
to Polygon Northwest, one of Othello Station’s builders, and Habitat for Humanity, the historic
Lee House will soon be restored to its original
character. Renamed the Harry Thomas Community Center
at Lee House in honor of SHA's former Executive Director,
the Lee House will be used for community meeting space
and small offices. For more information about the history and future of the
Harry Thomas Community Center at Lee House,
click here. |
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Construction
progress continues at SHA's
HOPE VI redevelopment sites
SEATTLE—April 11, 2005—SHA’s
HOPE VI redevelopment sites continue to show tangible progress every day.
Residents will be moving into the first new homes
at High Point in early summer, while the last phase of NewHolly
is moving toward completion and infrastructure work at
Rainier Vista is nearly done.
To read more detailed updates and a photos of the
latest progress at each site,
click here. |
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SEATTLE—February
3, 2004—All
along the south side of Othello Street just west of Martin
Luther King,Jr. Way S., new townhouses and duplexes are
going up as part of the 219 units of rental housing at
Othello Place (NewHolly, Phase III). Families will
be moving into this new housing beginning in March. For more
information on these new rentals and how to apply for them,
click here.
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SEATTLE—March
12, 2004—Family Pryde Homes is the first of the private home builders
sought out by SHA to build the remaining for-sale homes at
its major redevelopments - NewHolly, High Point and
Rainier Vista. Family Pryde purchased eight lots on S.
Holly Place, in Phase II of the NewHolly development, and
has begun work on four duplex units. Meanwhile, all but
four of the existing townhouses in Phase II have now been
sold. For details of the homes-for-sale program,
click here.
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SEATTLE—January
15, 2003—When
the Seattle Housing Authority proposed including for-sale
homes in its NewHolly development, many were skeptical of
the prospects for success. Therefore, SHA assumed the
risks of building the new houses, using the profits from
sales to build additional low-income housing. Once all 148
homes in Phase I sold successfully to rave reviews, the
market value of the project was firmly established. Now
the housing authority will sell the lots to private
homebuilders and leave this portion of the development to
experienced experts. But SHA will do this only with
caveats and controls to make sure that design quality and
the public interest is protected. To read more about the new
land sales,
click here. |
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SEATTLE—January
20, 2003—Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day was definitely a "day on"
and not a "day off" for Gov. Gary Locke and a
cadre of over 50 volunteers who turned out to help build a
new P-Patch at NewHolly. The governor pitched in to carry
and place pieces of recycled pavement for new retaining
walls at the "Power Garden" near Phase II
townhouses. For pictures of the work party and
excerpts from Gov. Locke's remarks,
click here.
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SEATTLE—September
2003—Nearly
200 residents and colleagues gathered on Wednesday,
September 24, to celebrate the start of construction at
Othello Place, the last phase of construction at NewHolly.
Billed as a celebration of "the home stretch,"
the event highlighted the personal stories of residents
and service providers. For pictures of the event and
details of the project,
click here. |
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SEATTLE—March
20, 2002—The
City Auditor's Office recently reviewed SHA's performance
in relocating residents from the old Holly Park in
preparation for redevelopment. For more information,
click here.
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SEATTLE—March
20, 2002—To
reflect the change occurring in this revitalized
neighborhood, what was formerly known as "Holly Park
Phase III" will now be referred to as Othello Place.
The new name reflects the fact that this part of the
neighborhood will have a distinct identity due to its
proximity to MLK, Jr. Way and its future links with
transit. To learn more,
click here.
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