ONE Neighborhood Builders will be converting St. Patrick Church in Cumberland into 44 affordable apartments.
The development includes converting the church building into apartments and constructing
10 apartments to allow older residents (62+) to age in place. Photo by Stephen Ide/ONE Neighborhood Builders
By Wheeler Cowperthwaite
Providence Journal
ONE|NB plans to convert St. Patrick Church in Cumberland into 44 affordable apartments. Photo by Stephen Ide/ONE Neighborhood Builders
PROVIDENCE − The state announced on Tuesday that it awarded 31 community development block grants across 13 cities and towns worth a total of $5.9 million for projects ranging from housing to infrastructure and community facilities.
The money will go to groups that did not receive awards from the federal community development block grant program.
The biggest grant, $750,000 over two years, went to the Ade Bethune House in Portsmouth, a planned 54-unit senior housing project with a new senior center. The project is already slated to receive nearly $20 million in funding, plus a promise by the town to pay for the senior center on the complex grounds.
Much of the awards went to supporting seniors in Rhode Island. The second largest award went to Middletown’s West House II senior affordable housing complex, with $682,917 over two years, in addition to $71,036 for an outdoor pavilion for the Middletown Senior Center.
The West House II complex will have 54 units for people 55 and older and be income restricted to those making 80% or less of the area median income. According to the 2023 income limits, that is $66,300 for a single person or $75,750 for a couple.
Among some of the larger awards were $300,000 for nonprofit developer One Neighborhood Builders’ conversion of a former church and the surrounding grounds in Cumberland into 44 income-restricted housing units for people making 60% or less of the area median income. Of those apartments, 10 will be reserved for people 62 and older.
