Atlanta Housing Selects Master Developer for Former Bowen Homes Revitalization

ATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ –The AH Board of Commissioners right now approved Atlanta Housing to barter a grasp developer settlement with a three way partnership, Bowen District Builders, for the redevelopment of the 74-acre Bowen Houses website.

The chosen growth group, which incorporates McCormack Baron Salazar, The Benoit Group, Coleman and Associates, and JG Consulting may also function the “Housing Implementation Entity” in Atlanta Housing’s software for a $40 million Alternative Neighborhood grant from the U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth.

“This can be a transformational undertaking for Northwest Atlanta that can deliver inexpensive houses and a vibrant neighborhood again to the group,” mentioned Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. “I am excited that Atlanta Housing has recognized a growth companion and may now pursue the catalytic Alternative Neighborhood grant. The Metropolis of Atlanta seems to be ahead to partnering within the growth of this inclusive neighborhood.”

In December 2020, HUD awarded a Alternative Neighborhoods Planning Grant to AH to create a Neighborhood Transformation Plan (NTP) for the revitalization of the previous Bowen Houses and the Brookview Heights neighborhood, the adjoining Carey Park, and segments of James B. Jackson Parkway and Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway–collectively known as the Bowen Alternative Neighborhood. The BCN is positioned in NPU-G, Council District 9.

“With an skilled growth group and a complete plan for funding in inexpensive housing, neighborhoods and other people, Atlanta is poised but once more to be chosen for a Alternative Neighborhood grant,” mentioned Larry Stewart, chairman of the Atlanta Housing Board of Commissioners. “This undertaking will likely be transformative for Northwest Atlanta and can leverage thousands and thousands extra in investments, jobs and alternatives for Atlanta residents.”

The event group’s plans are according to targets established in 18 months of session with residents of the encompassing group, former residents of Bowen Houses and different stakeholders in creating the NTP. The group imaginative and prescient consists of rising connectivity; preserving and enhancing the pure surroundings; prioritizing affordability and viability; and together with and honoring the “reminiscence of place.” Particularly, the Neighborhood Transformation Plan contemplates greater than 2,000 rental and possession items; a number of acres of improved greenspace; a inexperienced storm water administration system; preservation of the pure surroundings and an improved road community supporting a mixed-income growth with retail and group facilities.

Over the subsequent few months, the Bowen District Builders group will work with the Atlanta Housing group and the group to finalize website programming, together with the whole variety of deliberate market and inexpensive housing items. The event group received the highest suggestion from a various eight-member analysis committee that rigorously evaluated two short-listed proposals following an April 2022 request for proposals. Bowen District Companions was beneficial as the very best total worth for Atlanta Housing.

Bowen Houses was constructed in 1962 and razed in 2009. The 74-acre website is in a sparsely populated space of Northwest Atlanta bounded by Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and James Jackson Parkway.

The event idea will remodel the previous Bowen Houses website into a real interconnected neighborhood. Retail and group facilities encompass a brand new central sq., which serves as the center of the neighborhood. A mixture of makes use of offers alternatives for native residents to open companies in inexpensive industrial area, entrepreneurship help, and job coaching alternatives at a Group Sources Heart and Innovation Hub. 

The idea plan builds on concepts generated within the NTP to handle environmental and pure property of the location. A pedestrian inexperienced road and linear storm water park connects via the location east to west, creating inexperienced infrastructure to scale back flooding. The A.D. Williams Creek Path will connect with the residential growth and surrounding group property. Atlanta Housing and the Metropolis of Atlanta will additional work with Atlanta Public Faculties on the revitalization of the A.D. Williams faculty website as a part of the redevelopment.

Bowen Houses holds a momentous place within the historical past of Northwest Atlanta, public housing, African American artwork and tradition, and the non-public histories and lived experiences of the 1000’s of former residents who constructed their lives there.

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SOURCE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF ATLANTA; Atlanta Housing