The Catherine Booth Residence, the
Salvation Army’s newest housing project, will soon join the 150-unit high-rise senior apartment complex and Salvation Army Center Hill Community Center in
College Hill.
The Booth Residence consists of two, three-story buildings with a total of 96 one-bedroom apartments for low-income seniors. One of the buildings is about 46,000 square feet, and the other about 48,000 square feet.
The project is named after Catherine Booth, who, with her husband, founded the Salvation Army in 1865 in London.
Ground broke on the project in August, and it’s expected to be finished in December 2014. The project is being developed by
ATA/Beilharz Architects, the firm that did the renovations on the Salvation Army’s high-rise apartments in 2006.
“As a firm, we primarily do low-income housing projects, and we like to work on those kinds of projects because we feel like we’re making a difference on a daily basis,” says Greg Hackett, associate at ATA/Beilharz.
The buildings are being designed to feel more residential and fit in with their surroundings.
Funding for the project was provided through public and private sources on the federal, state and local level, including a grant from the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the
Ohio Housing Finance Agency and the
City of Cincinnati.
Enterprise Community Investment, Inc., also provided $6.29 million in equity through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, and
Fifth Third Bank provided construction financing.
By Caitlin Koenig
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