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Council committee advances ordinance to allow transfer of McCafferty Health Center site for senior affordable housing
Summary
A Cleveland City Council committee moved legislation authorizing the city to enter site-control agreements for redevelopment of the McCafferty Health Center site at 4242 Lorraine Ave into 70–72 affordable senior apartments; the transfer will be contingent on financing including a 9% LIHTC award and a typical 75% financing threshold.
A Cleveland City Council committee advanced Ordinance No. 42-2025 on a motion to allow the city to enter site-control and development agreements for the McCafferty Health Center property at 4242 Lorraine Avenue in the Ohio City neighborhood.
The legislation authorizes the director of public health to transfer control, possession and use of the property to the departments that will manage redevelopment and to enter development agreements enabling a proposed project led by Penrose LLC in partnership with Ohio City Inc. Trudy Andrzejewski, bureau chief of neighborhood revitalization in the Department of Community Development, told the committee the plan calls for demolition and new construction of a mixed-use, transit-oriented development with roughly 70–72 senior affordable rental units and ground-floor nonprofit or office space.
The project team intends to pursue Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) through the Ohio Housing Finance Agency's 9%…
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