YONKERS: Westhab Had Their Dayspring Commons Housing Project Tabled For A Month, While The Reach Out To The Labor Community About A Possible Union Project Labor Agreements (#PLA)
The possible Westhab PLA would cover housing built on land at 227 Elm Street And 320 Walnut Street for the construction of 63 units of affordable housing for low income and formerly homeless families, as well as, renovating a church into a 20,000 square foot community center.
The proposed complex would sit next to the former Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church at 203 Elm Street
The Dayspring Community Center at 320 Walnut Street, in Yonkers' #NodineHill area, was bought by Westhab in December 31, 2015 for $1.
The community center currently has afterschool programs for over 40 elementary school children and a dozen or so teens
The Yonkers-based #Westhab received Yonkers Zoning Board of Appeals approvals for several variances in order to build Dayspring Commons, on top of a garage with 97 parking spaces to be located at 227 Elm Street.
For more than a dozen years, Yonkers officials have worked on urban renewal plans for the Nodine Hill neighborhood, a predominantly low-income area where some of the city's oldest and most dilapidated housing is located.
Nodine Hill is one of the city's oldest and lowest income neighborhoods with a large, transient rental population.
Westhab's Executive Director Rich Nightingale has said that there is some difficulty of cultivating community leaders in an area that residents tend to leave when they can afford something better.
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