Habitat EKC Current Construction Projects
Issaquah Highlands, Issaquah
2009 to present
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Located on ½ an acre of land in the beautiful Issaquah Highlands
development, this project will consist of 10 homes in 5 duplexes. The
two story houses will consist of 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms all with built-in
garages. The homes will range from 1000 to 1400 square feet.
Land for this project was acquired with generous support from ARCH-A
Regional Coalition for Housing, the City of Issaquah, the City of
Newcastle, the City of Sammamish, King County Housing Finance Program,
the State of Washington Housing Trust Fund and HUD Self Help
Homeownership Program.
The homes will be built in accordance with the Master Builder’s
Association of King & Snohomish County Built Green Certified and
Evergreen Sustainable Standard programs.
Issaquah Highlands is a new model of how to live in the Northwest,
combining access to woods, trails, open space and parks with an
urban-village lifestyle of convenience. Issaquah Highlands is pedestrian
friendly with a network of sidewalks and trails, making it easy to walk
or bike from place to place. Architecture and streetscapes are scaled
for walking, with something interesting to look at and experience each
step of the way.
Many neighborhoods have front porches and homes close to the sidewalk to
encourage social interaction. In the Issaquah Highlands there are 650
developed acres of land, 1400 open acres of open space with an
additional 100 acres of parks area (accounting for 15 individual parks.)
New Project: La Fortuna in Renton – A Collaborative Project between
two Habitat for Humanity affiliates, East King County and Seattle/South King
County
Construction begins in Winter of 2011
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La Fortuna will provide 41 low-income families
with both an affordable home and an affordable mortgage
in a new housing development in Renton.
La Fortuna will be built in four phases from 2010—2014. The
first 11 homes will be built beginning in the winter of
2011.
These townhomes will be built in a total of eight
buildings varying in size from three to nine units each. Environmental
stewardship and long-term affordability will be ensured by constructing
the townhomes to achieve or surpass Energy Star
building standards.
La Fortuna is located in Renton’s Benson Heights neighborhood,
off Petrovitsky Road in an area zoned Residential Multifamily.
The property is vacant land within an area of residential homes built
from approximately 1960 to 1970. The site is an "L"-shaped, 4.51 acre
lot with a road and utilities (electricity, sanitary sewer and water)
already installed. There are no buildings on the site, no structures to
demolish and no tenants to relocate. Half of the site will be dedicated
to open space.
La Fortuna enhances the continuum of housing in King County.
Potential buyers for the La Fortuna homes will be identified by
partnering with providers of transitional and supportive housing. This
process will make space available in those units for families leaving
emergency shelters. In this way, the La Fortuna project intentionally
and proactively enriches the continuum of housing and enhances efforts
to end homelessness in King County.
La Fortuna is a collaborative Habitat effort. The
project will be implemented by integrating the operations of two
distinct and successful affiliates. Not only does this collaboration
avoid the creation of a separate affiliate organization, it will
increase the capacity of each affiliate to serve more families without
increasing overhead and/or the fully-loaded per-unit costs. It is
envisioned that this project will inspire others in Habitat for Humanity
to actively seek and implement collaborations that substantially
increase capacity and community impact.
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