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Albuquerque Tribune, The (NM) - August 22, 2006
Affordable housing bills head to mayor
Affordable housing activist Mary Lucero says she earned her sore muscles in front of the City
Council. Lucero, a program assistant for the Sawmill Community Land Trust, strained her arms for
more than an hour Monday night holding a sign over her head that read "Workforce Housing Builds
Stable Neighborhoods. Vote Yes."Her efforts were rewarded when the council, by a 6-2 majority,
passed a plan to sponsor affordable housing projects around the city.The bills,...
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - June 13, 2006
Councilor Pitches Affordable Housing, Plan Would Set Aside Funds, Land
City Councilor Debbie O'Malley says Albuquerque must improve its supply of affordable housing
and should do so by setting aside 8 percent of its public works program. "It's going to be a huge
challenge, but I think it's very important," said O'Malley, a former leader of the Sawmill
Community Land Trust, which developed housing for people with low and moderate incomes.Generally,
programs that promote affordability want...
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - June 12, 2006
Housing projects receive grants The Greater Albuquerque Housing Partnership and Sawmill
Community Land Trust have been awarded $50,000 challenge grants from Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and
Wells Fargo & Company through the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation.According to a news release from
the groups, the money will provide down payment and closing cost assistance to low- and
moderate-income home buyers in the Barelas and Trumbull Village infill projects and Arbolera de
Vida near...
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - June 11, 2006
The Sawmill Solution, A land trust formula builds infill housing and preserves the neighborhood
One of Albuquerque's oldest neighborhoods near Old Town is in the midst of a resurgence. Bucking national trends, the Sawmill neighborhood's core population is not being outpriced in a flurry of gentrification. Longtime residents have found a voice in the redevelopment of industrial property adjacent to their old neighborhood. Affordable housing for buyers, renters and seniors is the idea behind the Sawmill Community Land Trust, a private nonprofit corporation that has...
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - July 6, 2005
Sawmill Shows It Values Artists
EDITORIALS.. The value of having emerging artists in a community is often underestimated. .. Artists bring their talents -- whether it be as painters, crafters or performers -- to share with the neighborhood. Drawing them to a community means giving them affordable places to live and work... The Sawmill neighborhood's planned 60-loft housing development will be artist-friendly when it is finished in about a year... The lofts can be both living spaces and...
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - June 30, 2005
Ground Broken for Artist Community
Sawmill Plan Aims For Affordable Rent.. Some artists soon may be able to cut their commute down to a short walk between their brand new bedroom and living room. .. Moreover, they should be able to afford it... The Sawmill Community Land Trust held a groundbreaking Wednesday, celebrating the beginning of construction on a 60-loft structure on the corner of 19th street NW and Bellamah. Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, state Sen. Dede Feldman, City Councilor Debbie O'Malley and...
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - June 30, 2005
Groundbreaking Held for Lofts
AROUND THE METRO AREA.. The Sawmill Community Land Trust held a groundbreaking Wednesday to celebrate the beginning of construction on a 60 loft structure on the corner of 19th street NW and Bellamah. .. The Sawmill lofts should be finished within 330 days at a cost of around $5 million, said Rue Lazzell, general superintendent for contractor Global Structures... The project is designed to be a working and living community for artisans who earn under 60 percent of the median...
Article ID: 109027246C4E4811
Published on March 21, 2005, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
Apartments planned in Sawmill area
The Sawmill Community Land Trust has submitted plans to the city of Albuquerque for a $7 million, 60-unit live-and-work apartment project on 2.3 acres at 1801 Bellamah NW.
The trust is master developer of 27 acres near Bellamah and 19th streets.
Construction is expected to begin in April and to be finished in 11 months, said Ken Balizer, the trust's executive director.
The 65,693-square-foot project is planned on a speculative basis, but marketing will...
Article ID: 108340154011AB63
Published on February 11, 2005, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
'Orchard Of Life' Begins To Bloom
* Sawmill neighborhood hits second phase of unique redevelopment project
The Sawmill area near Old Town is heading into the second phase of a unique redevelopment project to provide affordable housing and to revitalize one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
The Sawmill Community Land Trust, a nonprofit organization, owns 27 acres adjacent to Old Town and is redeveloping the area into a community neighborhood called Arbolera de Vida, or "Orchard of...
Article ID: 41540
Published on December 2, 2004, Albuquerque Tribune, The (NM)
ONBOARD AT Sawmill
Families enjoy being neighbors at a planned community that offers affordable homes for first-time, low-income buyers
After 16 years of renting, Josie and Charlie Pflieger wanted a bigger house for their three young daughters.
But the couple couldn't qualify for a home loan with the family's sole income a teacher's salary.
That was until they applied and were approved for a four-bedroom, two-story house through the Sawmill Community Land Trust an...
Article ID: 10426959DFED5E15
Published on July 29, 2004, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
A JEWEL
Developers say the !25 business park shows how it should be done
The !25 development at I-25 and Jefferson has been called the crown jewel of Albuquerque real estate.
In just four years, a one-time real estate albatross has morphed into one of city's busiest and most successful infill and redevelopment projects.
And yet, from 1999 when the project started until its completion in 2003, many skeptics doubted the project would even work.
It was...
Article ID: 1018D31EC6473244
Published on March 25, 2004, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
Workshop Focuses On Park Plans
AROUND ALBUQUERQUE
The creation of a Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan for the Sawmill and Wells Park areas will be the focus of a three-day community workshop.
The event will be held today through Saturday at the Sheraton Old Town in the Weaver Meeting Room. An open house will be held at 5 p.m. today.
The targeted redevelopment area stretches from Rio Grande to Fourth Street and between Mountain Road and Interstate 40.
For information about the...
Article ID: 0FE8BA4FF8411345
Published on October 30, 2003, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
Meeting Held To Plan Sawmill Lofts
* Community members helping to design 27-acre project
AROUND ABQ
IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Community members, arts and crafts people among them, are furnishing ideas for a proposed loft-style, live and work development in the Sawmill area.
The Sawmill Community Land Trust hosted on Wednesday a charrette -- a comprehensive and collaborative community design effort -- for the proposed Sawmill Lofts. The rental and condominium units would be built at 19th and...
Article ID: 0F65326F942C380C
Published on September 27, 2002, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
Sawmill About To Speak Up
IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
* Newly created neighborhood association conducts its first meeting on Sunday
Much of the Sawmill area neighborhood, just north of Old Town, was a bunch of blueprint sketches only three years ago.
Over the last year and a half, homes and businesses have begun sprouting up across the landscape.
Now the neighborhood is getting the one thing residents have craved a voice.
The newly formed Sawmill Area Neighborhood Association...
Article ID: 4878 Published on December 3, 2001, Albuquerque Tribune, The
(NM) AWARDS
The New Mexico chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects
Design Awards recently announced its award winners.
Design Workshop Inc. won the only Award of Excellence from a field of 32
entries for Plaza at Arbolera de Vida, an urban park within a mixed-use,
affordable housing development in an urban in-fill project in the Sawmill
area. Morrow, Reardon, Wilkinson Ltd. Landscape received a Classic Honor Award for
Journal Center. The project was planned and...
Article ID: 2001194043
Published on July 13, 2001, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
Lumber Yard Thrives With Life
Land Trust, in Partnership With City, Turns Sawmill Site Into Neighborhood
The new homes lining the east side of 19th Street just north of Old Town stand out in the old city neighborhood.
They existed only as drawings two years ago. Now, they are the first tangible signs that the 27-acre site where the Duke City Lumber yard once stood is changing.
"We were really able to rezone this area the way we thought it should be developed," said Debbie O'Malley, executive director...
Article ID: 2001109113
Published on April 19, 2001, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
PUBLIC FESTIVITY TO OPEN NEW PLAZA
The public is invited to a Sunday dedication and celebration of a new plaza at Arbolera de Vida in Albuquerque's old Sawmill neighborhood.
Arbolera de Vida is a 27-acre redevelopment project created in a partnership of the Sawmill Community Land Trust and the city of Albuquerque.
"We're just completing the first phase," said Debbie O'Malley, executive director of the Sawmill Community Land Trust. "Part of the first phase is this really beautiful neighborhood...
Article ID: 2001109027
Published on April 19, 2001, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
COMMUNITY TO DEDICATE PLAZA
IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
The public is invited to a Sunday dedication and celebration of a new plaza at Arbolera de Vida in the old Sawmill neighborhood.
Arbolera de Vida is a 27-acre redevelopment project created in partnership between the Sawmill Community Land Trust and the city of Albuquerque.
"We're just completing the first phase," said Debbie O'Malley, executive director of the Sawmill Community Land Trust. "As part of the first phase is this really...
Article ID: 2001053013
Published on February 22, 2001, Albuquerque Journal (NM)
WELLS FARGO HELPS HOUSING INITIATIVES
Focus Communities Initiative has been awarded two $50,000 matching grants by Wells Fargo Bank New Mexico and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. The initiative is a matching grant program in collaboration with the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation, designed to increase affordable housing.
The recipients are the Sawmill Community Land Trust and the Greater Albuquerque Housing Partnership. Each must raise funds to match the awards.
Sawmill Community Land Trust is the voice for a largely "working...
More Media:
Land Lines, Newsletter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, April, 2005, has an article entitled "Community Land Trusts: Leasing Land for Affordable Housing" that defines land trusts well and highlights SCLT history and plans.
National Housing Institute: Industry News Brief
Keith Simon of Design Workshop and Eric Nusland of Studio E Architects have won the 2001 American Institute of Architects/HUD Secretary's Community Building by Design Award. The architects were cited for their work on Arbolera de Vida, a new residential development of the Sawmill Community Land Trust in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Arbolera de Vida is designed to provide long-term affordable housing and economic opportunities to low-income families.
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