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Waco, Grassroots outline 25-home 'Renaissance at Sanger Heights' with $3M federal grant for affordability

Waco City Council · October 8, 2025
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City staff and Grassroots briefed council on a 25-home pocket neighborhood on the former Sanger Elementary site that will include 14 affordable units supported by a $3,000,000 community project funding grant and ARPA infrastructure dollars; staff expects infrastructure to start Feb. 2026 and home construction to begin Nov. 2026.

City and nonprofit partners on Oct. 7 presented the Renaissance at Sanger Heights, a collaborative redevelopment of the former Sanger Avenue Elementary site that will deliver 25 single-family homes—14 designated affordable and 11 market-rate—on a roughly 3-acre site in North Waco.

Galen Price, director of housing and community development, said the project’s financing is layered: the city will use ARPA funds for initial infrastructure work and a federal community project funding (CPF) grant of $3,000,000 secured through…

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