Supporters of a proposed co-operative apartment building on Division Street said the project faces a "do-or-die" moment at next week's city council meeting. Limestone City Co-operative Housing is to seek $2.29 million over three years from the city for the development of budget estimates and schematic drawings.
Those documents, known as class B requirements, are needed to allow the co-op agency to apply for the federal housing funding needed to build the 14-storey, 248-unit building at the intersection of Division Street and Elliott Avenue. Meadowbrook-Strathcona Dist. Coun. Jeff McLaren, city council's representative on the co-op association's board of directors, said the features that are planned for the building could make it a difficult project to vote against.
The building, estimated to cost about $115 million, is to be built with wood and covered with enough solar panels to make it a zero-energy building and a vertical farm would provide fresh produce to the building's residents and the surrounding neighborhood.
On paper, the project addresses council priorities about housing, affordable housing, climate change and food insecurity, McLaren said.
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