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Residences at Lawrence Hill

    HOUSING

    At the Groundbreaking on Lawrence Road

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    WELLFLEET — State and local officials wielding shiny shovels officially broke ground at the site of the Residences at Lawrence Hill on Oct. 30. Speaking to a small group of early-rising neighbors, state Sen. Julian Cyr said that the success of the effort so far shows “we can turn the tide on the housing crisis.”

    At the Oct. 30 groundbreaking on Lawrence Road, directly across from the Wellfleet Elementary School, from left: Cory Fellows, a vice president at POAH; John Wolf, chair of the Wellfleet Select Board; Deacon Reeves and Finley O’Dell, fifth-graders at Wellfleet Elementary School; state Sen. Julian Cyr; Gail Sullivan, managing principal at Studio G Architects; Elaine McIlroy, chair of the Wellfleet Housing Authority; Mary Thompson, a senior vice president at Bank of America; and Jay Coburn, CEO of the Community Development Partnership. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)

    The 46 new apartments, designed to be energy-efficient, are going up on town-owned land across from the Wellfleet Elementary School. Adam O’Shea, the principal, attended the groundbreaking with two Wellfleet Elementary fifth-graders, Finley O’Dell and Deacon Reeves, who were there to listen and report back on the goings-on to classmates in grades three to five. Wellfleet Elementary, O’Shea said, is “excited about having new neighbors on top of the hill.”

    A rendering of the Lower Village building at the Residences at Lawrence Hill. (Image courtesy POAH)

    Seventy-five percent of the apartments will be reserved for people earning no more than 60 percent of the area median income (that number in Barnstable County is now $68,500 for one person and $97,800 for a household of four). That means affordable rents “for many people we cannot afford to lose,” said Elaine McIlroy, chair of the town’s housing authority.

    Sen. Cyr with two Wellfleet women who provided leadership for the development, Elaine McIlroy of the housing authority and Sharon Rule-Agger, chair of the local housing partnership. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)

    Two nonprofits, the local Community Development Partnership (CDP) and Boston-based Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), are the developers, with Studio G Architects doing the design.

    Jay Coburn, CEO of the CDP, said the progress on addressing the region’s housing crisis “gives hope.” Besides being beautiful, said McIlroy, these apartments will be “essential for a healthy community.”

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