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FROM JUNKYARD TO HOUSING
February 21, 2012
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| This is what happens when you let Monet paint your rendering. Construction just wrapped on $10.5M Moore Place, a multifamily housing development that exemplifies a local program called Solve the Puzzle Charlotte, an effort designed to end homelessness in Charlotte within the next 10 years. Charlotte's Urban Ministry Center bought the two-acre parcel at Moretz Avenue and Lucena Street several years ago and transformed the former junkyard into an apartment complex targeting homeless people. ($6M went toward the project itself; $4.5M went toward a ?sustainability fund? to keep the complex functioning.) The project includes 85 apartments with on-site case management, 24-hour security, a library, art studio, garden and common room. The Urban Ministry Center's Caroline Chambre tells us Moore Place should be fully occupied by April. Myers & Chapman was GC and the project was designed by Axiom Architecture. |
