HUD’s Donovan: Via Verde a ‘Model’ for Affordable Housing

NEW YORK CITY-At a grand opening ceremony for the $99 million 222-unit project in the South Bronx this morning, the federal secretary for Housing and Urban Development said the building should be used as a national example for sustainability.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on June 18, 2012

NEW YORK CITY-A vacant stretch of land at Brook Avenue and East 156^th Street once invoked images of the tumultuous “Bronx is burning” days of the late 1970s. Now, a 222-unit, $99 million sustainable affordable housing complex has risen from the ashes.

Via Verde, the winning response to the city’s New Housing New York Legacy competition sponsored by HPD, the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the Enterprise Foundation, celebrated its grand opening today in the South Bronx – a project that has gained federal recognition and will serve as a national example for high-design “green” multifamily planning.

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