Latest public housing under way
SUN PHOTO BY GREG GILES
Dignitaries break ground for Venetian Walk, a mixed income development going up in the background. A 61-unit, four story senior housing building will go up first in phase I. Phase II family units are also planned. Shoveling: Council Member Bob Daniels, Venice Housing Authority commissioners Joe Dalton, Aundria Castleberry, James Kraut, Jason Weaver, Kathy Lehner, George Barr, VHA administrator Martha Thomas, and former VHA commissioners Gloria Felcyn and Sam Prost.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG GILES
Mary Dixon and Mary Smith, displaced tenants of the former Grove Terrace Apartments, say they look forward to returning once the senior housing development called Venetian Walk is constructed. Phase I is expected to be complete by January 2014.
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An artists rendering of Venetian Walk, a mixed income housing project underway off East Venice Avenue near U.S. 41 Bypass.
Area leaders broke ground Friday on a housing complex called Venetian Walk — the first public housing in South County in four years.
The first phase will cater to low-income seniors in need, and the work is underway. The more than $20 million Phase 1 project will include 61 apartments for seniors in need.
