Yet another city/nonprofit partnership broke ground Thursday,
when construction of the $19 million Jasmine Square Village
officially began.
Yet another city/nonprofit partnership broke ground Thursday, when construction of the $19 million Jasmine Square Village officially began.
Residents will have noticed bulldozers moving over the land just south of the Post Office on Monterey Road, removing a trailer park on Church Street and a red building that has housed a number of restaurants over the years, most recently Trail Dust Barbecue.
In their place, South County Housing, with help from the city’s Redevelopment Agency, will build a mixed-use community with 5,000 square-feet of commercial-office space, 72 low income apartments and townhouses, a community center for renters plus an on-site day care center for 45 children to be run by Go Kids.
Both Dennis Lalor, executive director of South County Housing, and Mayor Dennis Kennedy spoke of past joint efforts in affordable housing, the Crest Avenue Apartments in particular.
Kennedy said he was pleased to partner with the group.
“It’s great work,” Lalor said, “but it’s also hard work.”
The commercial space may be rented to nonprofit organizations.
In the housing area, renters will enjoy 24 one-bedroom, 26 two-bedroom, four three-bedroom and two four-bedroom apartments plus 16 three-bedroom townhouses, each with a private deck or patio and dishwasher. The complex will include a play yard, picnic tables, a barbecue area, laundry, office, community garden plots and a computer lab, all surrounding community green space.
Sixty-eight of the units will be affordable to families earning less than 50 percent of the Santa Clara County median income. Four will be affordable to families earning between 50 percent and 60 percent of that median income.
Residents who were renting the trailers that were removed have been relocated and will be offered the chance to move back into the spanking new housing.
Lest anyone worry that the popular Trail Dust has ridden off into the sunset, having lost its building, the restaurant relocated downtown at 17240 Monterey Road, between Third and Fourth Streets.
For details or to be added to an “interest list” call South County Property Management at 842-9181.
