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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN HOSTS RIBBON CUTTING AT TWIN BROOK PROPERTIES, FORMERLY RIBICOFF COTTAGES, PART OF THE WEST ROCK REDEVELOPMENT

Posted by Bud Mench Media Group -BMMG on December 19, 2015 at 16:30
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN HOSTS RIBBON CUTTING AT TWIN BROOK PROPERTIES, FORMERLY RIBICOFF COTTAGES, PART OF THE WEST ROCK REDEVELOPMENT WHO: Elm City Communities Executive Director Karen DuBois-Walton; Mayor Toni N. Harp *confirmed*; Honorable Richard Blumenthal *confirmed*; Other Elected Officials and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Officials; Funders and Partners; Residents WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 22, 2015 WHERE: 41 Augustine Street, New Haven, CT 06615 WHAT: Ribbon cutting ceremony of Twin Brook Properties, formerly Ribicoff Cottages, part of the West Rock Redevelopment (includes tour of units for rent) NOTABLE ATTENDEES: Mayor Toni N. Harp, Honorable Richard Blumenthal; Other Elected Officials; Jennifer Gottlieb from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Brian Gallagher of The Community Development Trust; other Funders and Partners; Residents PROJECT BACKGROUND/DETAILS: Tuesday’s ribbon cutting will celebrate the completed first phase of Twin Brook Properties (formerly Ribicoff Cottages), which brings us one step closer to the envisioned West Rock Redevelopment. In its entirety, Twin Brook Properties will include 106 units but completed within this phase is the following: · 44 units of affordable Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) family housing units and 11 market rate rental units (one-bedroom at $1300 and two-bedroom at $1500) The Twin Brook Properties: Includes new roads and infrastructure totaling $21 million dollars (The development will be accessible to Woodin Street in Hamden, the street that wasn’t accessible when the Hamden-New Haven fence was up; Hamden is involved with the approval of the Augustine Street connection to Woodin Street, which will be connected in the spring of 2016) Includes $12 million in hard cost construction, construction jobs and other contracting opportunities for local, women, minority, Section 3 and resident owned enterprises as well as employment opportunities for women, minorities, and Section 3 residents infused the city as a result WESTROCK REDEVELOPMENT: The Westrock Redevelopment not only represents a beautiful, safe, and affordable place to call home, it is also a model collaboration culminating in more than a decade of hard work by hundreds of residents (of the former Brookside, Rockview and Ribicoff developments), the Mayor of the City of New Haven Toni N. Harp, the 14 members of the West Rock Implementation Committee, Alderman Carlton Staggers, numerous agencies of the City of New Haven, the local Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office; The Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority; as well as the City of New Haven Economic and Development Administration, especially the following departments: Livable City Initiative, City Plan, Building, Engineering, Public Works, and Transportation, Traffic and Parking; and the staff of Elm City Communities. _____________________________
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