Bellevue Village is an Affordable finalist
There’s a magazine for everything and everybody, and one called Affordable Housing Finance Magazine has named St. John’s Bellevue Village one of 4 finalists in its Rural category for its annual winners of best affordable housing projects. (It’s up against new projects in Pennsylvania, Kansas and Minnesota.)
If you’ve never pulled in to Bellevue and driven around, you should. It’s pretty nice. (It’s off Gifft Hill Road, next to Gifft Hill School.) Some of those apartments, that rent for between $500 and $750 a month, have million dollar views. Bellevue, and how it got built, is a very interesting story.
We’d vote for it, but I think our subscription to Affordable Housing Finance Magazine ran out. Read a little about it here.
August 5th, 2007 11:23
I would like to have one of those $500 a month apartments
August 5th, 2007 12:59
What a great, encouraging story. We saw those apartments on on our last trip and wondered about them. With all the negative stuff that’s been coming out about greedy, unscrupulous building on STJ, it’s good to hear that something is being done for the folks who actually live and work there year ’round and help keep it a beautiful place.
August 5th, 2007 13:08
Every time we drive by this housing development, I’m impressed. I recall the building of this complex and it turned out even better than I could have imagined. It’s truly wonderful to have subsidized housing for the St. Johnians that’s not located someplace where no one dare venture.
This time the government did good (sic).
Marcia (Mrs. Pete)
August 11th, 2007 16:27
Kirk, wouldn’t we all. Oh well, it was a fair lottery. I’m glad for some of the very deserving people who did get in. Megan in particular comes to mind. She busts her hump to support our favorite island kid, Michael.