Mental Health Facility Planned Project Intended to Aid Downtown
Posted on: Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 00:00 CDT
By Jim Skeen\ Staff Writer
LANCASTER - An $18.4 million project combining a building for mental health programs and a 100-unit apartment complex will become part of the city's efforts to revitalize Lancaster's north downtown.
The nonprofit Mental Health Association and InSite Development LLC are planning a 20,000-square-foot office building and a neighboring apartment complex on city land at the southeast corner of Beech Avenue and Jackman Street.
"We're hoping for a groundbreaking in March," said Judy Cooperberg, director of Antelope Valley programs for the association. "It's going to be a great project."
Lancaster's planning commission approved a permit for the project on Tuesday. The mental health building is expected to be completed in late 2006.
The new mental health building would replace a 7,700-square-foot leased building on Division Street that has become too cramped.
"This will help them and help redevelop downtown," said Mayor Frank Roberts. "This is a great project."
Lancaster's redevelopment agency provided the land for the project. In exchange for the city land, the partnership will be required to maintain the mental health facility as an outpatient facility that would not provide residential care or day care.
The agreement with the city also requires that 35 of the 100 apartments be made available to disabled residents and that rent on all of the apartments comply with government definitions of "affordable" for 55 years.
The association has been serving the Antelope Valley since 1988. Its services include mental health care, housing assistance, job coaching, social skills training and money management training.
The developer has worked in Lancaster on other redevelopment projects, including the $9 million, 76-unit Arbor Gardens senior housing project at Kettering Street and Elm Avenue and the $5 million refurbishment of the 200-unit Village Point apartment complex on Challenger Way just north of Avenue K.
Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743
james.skeen(at)dailynews.com
Source: Daily News; Los Angeles, Calif.
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