(Washington, DC) On Monday, March 26, at 11:30 am, Mayor Muriel Bowser will celebrate a renovation groundbreaking for Parkway Overlook Apartments, 220 affordable housing units in the Ward 8 neighborhood of Congress Heights, a complex that will have mostly family-sized units and provide workforce development training to residents and energy savings through the installation of solar panels through the Solar for All program.
Over 10 years in the making, the collaboration of three District housing agencies under the Bowser Administration, DC Housing Authority (DCHA), the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and the DC Housing Finance Agency (DCHFA), closed a financing deal in February that lead the way for this long awaited renovation at Parkway Overlook.
Since coming into office, the Bowser Administration has sparked the creation or preservation of more than 10,400 affordable units, with another 2,950 in preconstruction. In Fiscal Year 2017, the District made historic investments in affordable housing, getting more than $138 million in Housing Production Trust Fund financing out the door to support 23 projects that will produce or preserve more than 1,900 affordable units.
When:
Monday, March 26, at 11:30 am
Who:
Mayor Muriel Bowser
Councilmember Trayon White, Ward 8
Tyrone Garrett, Executive Director, District of Columbia Housing Authority
Polly Donaldson, Director, Department of Housing and Community Development
Tommy Wells, Director, Department of Energy and the Environment
Christopher Donald, Senior Vice President, Multifamily Lending and Neighborhood Investments, District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency
Kevin T. Hall, Vice President, Wells Fargo Community Lending & Investment
Where:
Parkway Overlook Apartments
2841 Robinson Place, SE
*Closest Metro: Congress Heights Metro Station*
Press interested in attending the event are asked to RSVP to [email protected]. To view the event online, visit mayor.dc.gov/live or tune in on Channel 16 (DCN).