![]() The Ithaca VoiceĪffordable housing, net-zero apartments pitched for Ithaca – The City of Ithaca’s planning board got a closer look Wednesday at a pair of residential infill project pitched to join the city’s housing stock. The Ithaca VoiceĪ closer look at the redevelopment plan for former Immaculate Conception School– Documents filed with the City of Ithaca this week are providing the first detailed look at the plans for the redevelopment of the former Immaculate Conception School on the 300 Block of West Buffalo Street. $7.5 million in state grants will fund Ithaca affordable housing plans – New York State will award about $2.2 million to Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services as part of the second phase for its scattered site preservation project, and $5.3 million to Lakeview Health Services for the construction of its West End Heights mixed-use project. A number of smaller projects also moved forward, including Visum’s 12-unit affordable project, “Liv”, at 327 West Seneca Street, and the rebuild of 203-209 Elm Street by INHS, part of their citywide renovation and reconstruction project. These range from the 124-unit Arthaus at 130 Cherry Street, to the Immaculate Conception School redevelopment, to Lakeview and INHS’s 60-unit West End Heights project at 709 West Court Street. With Cornell building new student housing at Maplewood and on their North Campus, some of the pressure on the local housing market began to come off, and a number of larger affordable housing developments were proposed, approved, or broke ground. It’s not just a 2019 phenomenon, but this year was really when the city and county finally started to make some substantial progress on the affordable housing front. Ithaca and Tompkins make some headway on affordable housing The 124-unit project is just getting underway, with a mid-2021 opening planned. The Arthaus affordable housing development in Ithaca city.
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