Affordable housing in West Texas is getting a helping hand from Sundt’s $33 million project for the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP).
We’ve started work on reconstruction of the Sherman Community as part of HACEP’s overall $1 billion initiative to revitalize El Paso’s affordable housing communities. The Sherman Apartments were built in 1953 and are one of the larger communities in HACEP’s portfolio.
Sherman-North will be a full reconstruction that will include demolition of 21 low-rise buildings. Once rebuilt, the project will contain 178 units. Westfall is going from nine units to 90. The week before Thanksgiving, the project team purchased and delivered turkeys to 161 families in both complexes who had to be relocated before the new work began.
The reconstruction of Sherman-North is part of HACEP’s project to revitalize all affordable housing communities in its portfolio through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rental Assistance Demonstration program. Nearly 6,000 of HACEP’s homes in El Paso are being revitalized.
Once construction is complete by the end of the year, the community will have playgrounds, an athletics court and picnic areas.