[This story has been updated on Sept. 19 to correct the apartment complex referred to in the initial article posted on Sept. 18.]
An affordable apartment complex in College Park is under construction.
Located on Baltimore Avenue between Delaware and Cherokee streets, across the street from Uptown Cheapskate, the Flats at College Park will be a 317-unit low-income housing development when it opens in 2025.
The apartments will rent for between $1,200 and $2,500 a month, making it the third designated affordable housing complex in College Park, according to the city’s planning department.
The building will also have about 4,000 square feet of retail space which is intended to be used by the nonprofit Meals on Wheels, which has provided home delivered meals to the elderly and house-bound people in College Park, Greenbelt, Beltsville, Berwyn Heights, Adelphi and nearby areas since 1974.
The project, which replaces three hotels that were demolished, is being built by RST Development using the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.
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I’m afraid the Boulevard apartments are still in limbo (the rowhouses were built though). The picture above is of Flats at College Park, the RST project that razed the 3 motels and is building right across the street from where the Boulervard would be
This post has been corrected. The original version misidentified the project.
Looks like more working class/lower middle class families moving into a working class/lower middle class neighborhood. My neighborhood. So what?
Well they be affordable if you’re on disability? If so email me new post if not don’t bother.
The concept here of affordable I guess is relevant to the usual exorbitant rent in this area of PG county. What do you get for $2500 and how is that affordable on a low-income wage? I guess it will all be inhabited by Section 8. What about low-income families that do not have section 8?