Enterprise Community Development marked the formal groundbreaking at 1030 Alston Court, a $36 million affordable housing community that will add 96 new one-, two- and three-bedroom homes to the Waynesboro housing market, on Thursday.
The groundbreaking came three weeks after the company, a subsidiary of the Columbia, Md.,-based nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners, announced that it had closed on the financing for the project, the focus of a generated controversy over a $500,000 grant approved by Waynesboro City Council back in April.
Alston Court will be the first new affordable housing development to go up in 15 years in Waynesboro, where we’ve seen plenty of the $2,000-a-month-and-greater variety of housing go on the market, but nothing for folks in the middle tiers of the economic ladder.
There’s also attention being paid with this project to building 16 units in accordance with Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, and 11 units that will be set aside for households with disabilities.
The development is being built to meet the U.S. Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Home and Enterprise Green Communities standards, with rooftop solar planned as part of the project.
Waynesboro is changing, y’all.
Construction on the project is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2028.
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