With just a few more bricks to lay, “Seventh & H” looks pretty sharp for an affordable housing project. The eight-story, $47.4 million, 150-unit building by Mercy Housing is the first new structure going up in the railyards redevelopment project area. The project expected to be compleated in the Fall of this year.

Seventh & H SRO (Image by: Michael Zwahlen) Seventh & H SRO (Image by: Michael Zwahlen) Seventh & H SRO (Image by: Michael Zwahlen) This project below at 626 I Steet will consist of 108 units for occupancy by extremely low income elderly persons in September 2012. This rehabilitation project project cost $19.4 million and was funded by grants to modernize the vacate building. Most of the funding came from the Federal Government, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). See before photos here.

626 I Street Rehabilitation Project (Image by: Michael Zwahlen) 626 I Street Rehabilitation Project (Image by: Michael Zwahlen)