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Progress: a quick site visit
February 5, 2010 – 3:37 pm
[update: watch this!]
Last Wednesday, VMC took board members and staff on a brief site visit to Minvilla Manor.
Progress is especially evident from the inside. We didn’t get up into the third level of the structure floor, but we were able to check out the apartments at the first (basement) level and on the second level.
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Minvilla breaks ground today
September 8, 2009 – 8:58 pm
Minvilla Manor is under construction as of 10am today. When completed late next year, this development will add 57 new units of permanent supportive housing to our affordable housing stock in Knoxville.
Minvilla is one of the most visible projects related to the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. As such, it has focused a lot [...]
Minvilla fully funded
April 22, 2009 – 1:28 pm
City Council has approved the contracts governing allocations of funding for Minvilla Manor. This means that the funding is secured for this complicated and difficult project.
The News-Sentinel’s Hayes Hickman has been covering the Minvilla saga and reports here.
This is cross posted at the TYP website.
Minvilla to re-bid
April 6, 2009 – 3:49 pm
As reported here last Friday, Minvilla Manor, the permanent supportive housing project at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, will be re-bid.
Minvilla was originally advertised through invitations to pre-qualified firms and in professional forums. It was not publicly advertised in the newspaper because that was not required. Four construction companies bid on the project [...]
Minvilla’s mixed marriage: benefits and some comparisons
December 17, 2008 – 10:29 pm
Minvilla is a marriage of historic preservation and affordable housing. Some people think that’s a bad marriage, because the cost is too high. Just last Monday, for example, several Knox County Commissioners raised the issue of per-unit cost, saying that ~$123,000 per unit is an outrageous amount of money to spend to rehabilitate a building [...]
Joint Council/Commission workshop tonight: 5pm City/County Building
December 11, 2008 – 6:36 pm
This is cross posted here.
Last night’s public meeting about the Ten-Year Plan and permanent supportive housing was very well-attended (we’ll post some follow-up to the meeting here by the end of the day tomorrow). We hope the same will be true for tonight’s joint City Council/County Commission workshop which is open to the public.
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Public meeting: December 10
December 4, 2008 – 7:49 pm
This is cross posted here.
A public meeting will give neighborhood representatives and interested members of the public an opportunity to learn about and comment on critical aspects of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
The meeting will take place at on December 10, 2008 at 6pm in the small assembly room in the City/County Building.
According [...]
About funds specific to this project
December 3, 2008 – 8:42 pm
Last Wednesday’s News-Sentinel published this article about City Council’s approval of Neighborhood Stabilization Fund (NSP) dollars for Minvilla. The article contained this:
Jon Lawler, director of the city-county 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, said 80 percent of the public funds secured for Minvilla, including historic and low-income housing tax credits, are specific to that project.
Several [...]
Why not do more PSH cheaper elsewhere?
December 3, 2008 – 8:21 pm
People sometimes ask us, “Why not take this money and spend it to purchase already-existing apartments and other properties and turn them into PSH developments? This would certainly be cheaper, and we could house more people faster this way. Why don’t we abandon Minvilla and do PSH somewhere else?”
These are fair questions. Minvilla is expensive [...]