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The Ninety-Four Ten Hough project includes the renovation of a more than 10-year vacant building into a beautifully designed contemporary 116-unit property in the underserved Hough neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Our partnership leverages the financial strength, real estate experience, and construction expertise of SLSCO with the specialized affordable housing and community development experience of NREUV to deliver a turnkey equitable development solution for this project.
Our solution includes a comprehensive approach to health and wellness. The project will incorporate both health care and economic empowerment from construction through the long-term operation of the project. Project Community Capital®, an innovative social capital platform, and PRIMARE360, a preventative health program, will operate within a 5,000 sq. ft. Community building. These services are implemented based on evidence-based best practices and a collective impact model.
Beyond bricks and mortar, redevelopment plans must also create opportunities for all residents to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities to contribute to their individual and community growth. They should also enhance the appeal of prospective residents who have the economic ability to make choices about where they live. Plans should include growth strategies that are tailored to build on the assets of the area and aim to diminish individual or structural challenges to social and economic mobility faced by residents and businesses in the community.
“First thing is, a lot of abandonment,” said Cleveland Councilwoman Stephanie Howse-Jones of Ward 7 as she walks up on the old apartment building. “But now, with this investment, you know that it’s hope.”
The former Community Circle building on Hough Avenue and East 93rd Street -- with its broken windows, boarded up doors, and no trespassing signs -- is in disarray.
“This was a former affordable product funded through HUD,” said Howse-Jones, “It unfortunately went offline in the early two thousands for just over a generation now.”
But now, Dr. Gina Merritt of Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures has secured $47 million dollars to turn this forgotten structure into Ninety-Four Ten Hough, 116 units of new, affordable housing.
Plans to restore a damage-riddled, 10-story apartment building at 9410 Hough Ave. in Cleveland can proceed after Gina Merritt, who heads Northern Real Estate Urban Ventures LLCs of Washington, D.C., announced a financing package has been set.
Northern Real Estate Urban Development has closed on the $47 million in financing needed to redevelop the vacant Community Circle One Building in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood.
A Washington, D.C.-based developer plans to bring a market hall for Black-owned businesses to MLK Plaza, along with affordable and mixed-income housing at multiple sites in the Hough neighborhood. The market will have a community ownership model through which neighbors can purchase shares of the property and get money back each year. The developer also plans to rehabilitate an empty 10-story building at 9410 Hough Ave. into affordable housing and build apartments on a vacant lot on Crawford Road across the street from MLK Plaza.
A new program aims to boost the ranks of minority real estate developers in Cleveland — and to give them the tools, from money to financial know-how, to put shovels in the ground.
On Dec. 6, Cleveland City Council agreed to allocate $8 million in federal stimulus money to rehabilitating a vacant housing tower in Hough.
A condemned 10-story apartment building at 9410 Hough Ave. in Cleveland has been acquired by an affiliate of SLSCO Ltd., a Galveston, Texas, construction contractor with a specialty in repairing properties after natural disasters.
As a number of projects in Hough are underway from Geis Companies, ARPI Development, Frontline Development Group, and others, Merritt sees the neighborhood undergoing a transformation over the next several years.
Beacon Center is a joint venture project between the Emory United Methodist Church’s development arm, The Emory Beacon of Light, and The Community Builders. The JV hired Ellisdale Construction as the general contractor to demolish portions of a church in the Brightwood neighborhood of DC and build a 99-unit affordable housing project located at 6100 Georgia Avenue, NW.
A sustainable well-supported community is at the forefront of our mission. From our New 180,000 square foot multi-purpose Beacon Center campus (opened April 2019), our community based programs are designed to be the catalyst to help community members reach their full potential. Underpinned by arts, culture and music spaces, The Beacon center houses state-of-the- art affordable housing, a gymnasium, classrooms, a food pantry, immigration clinics and small business services. It will also soon offer a commercial restaurant staffed by returning citizens, a second community kitchen (incubator), youth leadership academy and health clinic. We are at the center of the community. Learn more about the positive impact we have and join us in bringing about positive transformational change to underrepresented communities.
Beacon Center was one of the first projects that PCC was engaged on. Out of 43 construction jobs, 14 employees were hired from Ward 4, 33 from Section 3, and one was local. The project added 99 units of housing to the church complex, and created a community ecosystem. This $60M mixed-use/church renovation project on the 6100 Block of Georgia Avenue, NW had NREUV serving as Development Manager and Owner’s Representative.
Emory Beacon of Light Inc. requested a two-year zoning variance extension Tuesday morning for development of the Beacon Center, the mixed-use project planned on Georgia Avenue in Brightwood.
Workers in hard hats, Washington, D.C. government leaders, and people of faith gathered at 6100 Georgia Avenue Feb. 15 to celebrate at a topping out luncheon. The ritual celebration, hosted by EllisDale Construction, marked the enclosing of the new $56 million Beacon Center, the future home of Emory Fellowship UMC, an affordable housing complex and retail and community space.
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