It only took 15 years
Austin ISD Trustee Candace Hunter and others look at a model for the redevelopment of the old Home Depot siteBut that’s exactly what the “Old Home Depot,” located at 7211 N. I-35, is to the people living in North Austin’s– a vacant, deteriorating city-owned building that will soon be torn down to make way for affordable housing, parkland, and new retail. Demolition of the building began Aug. 14 and is expected to take about three weeks.
Community and civic leaders held an event Saturday, Aug. 12, to commemorate the latest step toward redevelopment of the Home Depot site . Once completed, it will represent a major victory for an historic Austin community.freedman community following the Civil War. Today the Black population has decreased and the census-tract containing the community is majority-Latino. The neighborhood is still an important part of Black Austin history – which the redevelopment intends to honor. But the site has been a more frustrating part of the community’s modern history: Purchased by the city in 2008, it languished in planning purgatory for nearly a decade, during which it mostly served as a storage facility.St.
Once slated to become a police substation, a lengthy community engagement process led to a new vision for the Old Home Depot site. Now, through a partnership between the city, the Housing Authority of the City of Austin , and private development firm Greystar, the site is set to be transformed into 560 housing units, about half of which will be reserved for tenants earning between 50-60% of Austin’s Median Family Income .
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