Redevelopment authority receives 1 project proposal
The Uniontown Redevelopment Authority received one response to a request for proposals to design and build three single-family houses on Maple Street. Threshold Housing Development of Uniontown submitted the proposal, which will be reviewed before the authority’s next meeting on Sept. 14, authority executive director Mark Yauger said.
The cost of the work will be negotiated and the authority board will consider awarding a contract at the meeting, Yauger said.
Contractors have to be certified as Community Housing Development Organization to qualify for the project, which is being funded with a $300,000 federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) grant administered by the state Department of Community and Economic Development, and Threshold has the certification, he said.
The three homes will be the first of 10 the authority plans to build on Maple Street using NSP money, Yauger said.
The authority used a $500,000 Core Communities grant the state Department of Community and Economic Development awarded in 2006 to buy the lots, and a $45,000 state grant will be used to construct new sidewalks, he said.
The houses, which will be built on double lots, will come in three different Victorian styles, and colonial-style streetlights also will be installed.
Yauger said the authority is required to have a construction contract in place by Sept. 30 to qualify for the NSP money.
The houses will cost about $175,000 to build and will be sold to people meeting the income qualifications. A buyer’s income can be up to 115 percent of the median income to qualify, Yauger said.
The other houses in the Maple Street development will be built using proceeds from the sales of the first three houses and proceeds from three houses built in Masontown using NSP money, Yauger said. Future NSP funding also could be used, he said.
Also on Friday, the authority received and opened two bids for resurfacing Lenox Street, Pershing Avenue, Cleveland Avenue and Edgemont Drive.
Yauger said A.C. Moyer of Lemont Furnace submitted the apparent low bid of $71.30 per ton of asphalt. El Grande Construction of Monessen bid $81 per ton. A contract for the work will be awarded on Sept. 14 and work will be completed in the fall, he said.