Town Leaders Tour Lawrence Hill Apartments

75 applicants live or work in Wellfleet or have kids at Wellfleet Elementary

WELLFLEET — The 46 affordable apartments that now ring the baseball diamond opposite Wellfleet Elementary School are nearly complete, with tenants expected to move in this spring, according to the nonprofits that developed the units: the Orleans-based Community Development Partnership (CDP) and the Boston-based Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH).

Town staff, select board members, and members of the Maurice’s Campground Planning Committee toured some of the units, which have been named the Residences at Lawrence Hill, on Jan. 7 along with two reporters from the Independent.

“Our hope is that we get the TCO soon — the temporary certificate of occupancy,” said Julie Creamer, a senior vice president at POAH. Tenant move-in should “really kick off in the beginning of March, and by summertime, we hope to have it fully occupied,” Creamer said.

“We have an extraordinary range of income diversity in this project that you don’t have at the Village at Nauset Green down in Eastham,” said Jay Coburn, president of the CDP. A healthy community includes people earning a range of incomes, he said, and middle- and lower-income earners would be integrated throughout the project’s 24 townhome-style units and 22 apartments.

Read the full article by The Provincetown Independent here.

Photo: From left CDP chief program officer Andrea Aldana, Julie Creamer and James Carroll of POAH, and CDP president Jay Coburn joined town officials for a tour of the 46 affordable apartments at Lawrence Hill on Jan. 7. (Photo by Paul Benson)