Real Estate Development

Acquisition and Renovation

Renovating properties threatened with conversion to market rental or luxury housing with new systems and structures.

 

 

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    Jesse Jackson Jr. Senior Housing

    Harvey, IL

    Jesse Jackson Jr Senior Housing, acquired by POAH from the YMCA of Metro Chicago in 2019, provide  a vital source of quality affordable senior housing in a community that has seen more than its share of disinvestment over the past decades. The properties are located on the former Dixie Square Mall Site – made famous by the Blues Brothers movie in 1980 – in Chicago’s south suburbs and just off two major expressways

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    Walnut Grove Apartments

    Blacklick, OH

    Walnut Grove Apartments is a 176-unit family development located in Blacklick, Ohio, a small unincorporated community on the northeastern portion of the Columbus Metropolitan area.  POAH purchased the property from the National Church Residences (NCR)

    It consists of 50 one- and two-story single-family homes and 17 townhouse buildings containing 126 units. The development contains 64 two-bedroom, 62 three-bedroom and 50 four-bedroom units. The property sits on 10.5 acres on a 15 + acre campus shared by two other properties owned by NCR.

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    Wells Court

    Brewster, MA

    Wells Court Senior Apartments is located in Brewster, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The complex is located in a charming rural / suburban setting and sits on three acres of land.  There are sunrooms and resident lounges on each floor, a large community space, and several outdoor gathering areas. There is bus service to amenities in the nearby village, giving access to shopping, the town library, town hall and others.

New Construction

Building homes that are appropriate for the surrounding neighborhood and community, built to high standards that integrate conservation and sustainability for the long term.

 

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    Meridian Point at Goulds Station

    Miami, FL

    Meridian Point at Goulds Station is a new-construction, affordable housing development located in the Goulds area of southern Miami-Dade County. It features 113 units for families with incomes ranging from 30% to 80% of Area Median Income (AMI). Sixty-eight of these units are reserved for families currently residing at the nearby Cutler Manor Apartments -soon to be built as Harvest Point.

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    Fifth City Commons

    Chicago, IL

    Fifth City Commons is a new-construction affordable housing development in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side with 43 apartments built to Passive House standards.

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    The Kenzi at Bartlett Station

    Boston, MA

    The Kenzi at Bartlett Station contains 50 units of supportive, affordable housing for older adults and is part of the five-phase redevelopment of the former bus yard now owned by Nuestra Comunidad and Windale Developers. The Kenzi serves individuals age 55 or older who have either low or middle-income housing needs in 41 affordable one-bedroom apartments and 3 affordable two-bedroom apartments.

Community Revitalization

Vibrant new residential communities that offer housing for a range of incomes, enhanced amenities and better connection to the surrounding neighborhoods.

 

 

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    Barry Farm

    Washington, DC

    The Barry Farm neighborhood is located off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, west of historic Anacostia in Washington, D.C. and was originally established in 1867 as the first African-American homeownership community in Washington, D.C. for newly freed slaves. Over time, the original 375-acre site dwindled in size and in 1943 The National Capital Housing Authority acquired 24 acres and built the Barry Farm public housing project.

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    Woodlawn Station

    Chicago, IL

    Woodlawn Station was the last phase in POAH's Woodlawn Choice Initiative, a broad effort to rebuild and revitalize the Woodlawn community and encourage re-investment in this South Side neighborhood of Chicago.

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    Flat 9 at Whittier

    Boston, MA

    The first two phases of The Flat 9 at Whittier redevelopment was a collaboration between POAH, Madison Park Development Corporation and the Boston Housing Authority to redevelop the Whittier Street Apartments site in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Originally built in the early 1950s, the Whittier Apartments were home to 200 public housing families. Phase three, The Amp at Flat 9, is a collaboration with the Boston Housing Authority that added market rate rentals to the redevelopment.