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Council hears plans for Central Plaza Towers, Emerson Gardens and unused MHA parcels
Summary
Pat Moore outlined redevelopment plans for Central Plaza Towers (462 units), Emerson Gardens (repositioning cost about $10 million), and several unused parcels (Josephine Allen, Orange Grove, Roger Williams, Cottage Hill), noting floodplain constraints, pending tax-credit financing, and planned resident relocation options.
Pat Moore, interim CEO of the Mobile Housing Authority, told the Administrative Service Committee that Central Plaza Towers (CPT) contains roughly 462 apartments and is the subject of a tax-credit financing application to the Alabama Housing Finance Agency, while Emerson Gardens — an elderly community that is fully occupied — has an estimated repositioning cost of about $10 million.
Moore said the CPT project aims to modernize units (new appliances, renovated bathrooms, ADA compliance and elevator work) and to convert some efficiency apartments to one-bedroom units to better match demand. The authority is awaiting a decision from the state housing finance agency on tax credits…
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