The U.S. Department of Interior has announced plans to donate a five acre stretch of land in Clark County for the creation of an affordable housing for senior citizens project in metro Las Vegas.
In an April 6 news release, authorities established that the parcel of land will be home to the project, with the official handover having taken place earlier this month.
“The Bureau of Land Management is proud to help create affordable housing for seniors in Las Vegas,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a press release. “Tough issues in cities that neighbor our public lands are easier to solve when local, state and federal partners roll up their sleeves and work together, and I look forward to continuing those partnerships.”
The Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998 requires the BLM to use proceeds from land sales within a congressionally designated area in the Las Vegas Valley to fund conservation and public benefit projects across the state on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin, or in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
"The County applied for the parcel through the BLM and provided $11.8 million in funding for the project in Commissioner’s Naft’s district on the northwest corner of Pebble Road and Eastern Avenue,” officials added in the press release. “It will be developed by the winner of a County-issued Request for Proposals, Las Vegas-based Ovation Design & Development.”
The plan calls for the facility to be operated in partnership with Coordinated Living of Southern Nevada, Inc., a Nevada nonprofit that encourages “the development of senior affordable housing and provides low-income seniors with wrap-around services designed to promote health, security, happiness and independent living.”
Among the features at the dwelling of 195 one-and two bedroom units that will be rented out at below-market value to seniors whose income fall below up to 60 percent of the area median income will be a swimming pool and jacuzzi, facilities for meetings and social gatherings, game area, hair salon, wellness center, kitchen and exercise room, outdoor courtyards, community gardens and carport parking for residents.
Individual units will feature open floorplans, chef-inspired kitchens, granite countertops, hard-surface flooring, kitchen appliance packages, luxury bathrooms, accessible showers, key card building entry and monitored cameras in exterior and interior common areas.
“This effort is a tangible example of what happens when communities, industry and the federal government identify a need and work hand-in-hand to provide solutions for communities across America. added Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis. “This is also another example of the significant achievements accomplished through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act.”
