Helping housing authorities and developers alike navigate affordable housing your community will be proud of.
LIHTC, Section 8, HUD financing, and Enterprise Green Communities requirements can make designing an affordable multifamily development a challenge. No matter if you want to include affordable units to your market-rate concept, build a new affordable development, student housing, or renovate existing affordable housing, our experienced designers will walk you through the process and construction.
Affordable Housing Projects
730 Simms
730 Simms
730 Simms is a reuse affordable housing project in Lakewood, Colorado. This apartment project features 218 units along with community space, tenant amenities, storage, bicycle storage, and laundry rooms. This repurposed 202,783 GSF four-story existing concrete office structure with a new fifth story is designed using Enterprise Green Community standards.
Client: Zocalo Development
Specifications: Cast in place concrete | five-story | 202,783 GSF
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Ten West Greeley Apartments
Ten West Greeley Apartments
Ten West Greeley Apartments is a $53 million dollar apartment development in Greeley, Colorado. The project features 264 garden-style walk-up units, surface, and garage parking, and a 3,500 sq.ft. Clubhouse. The entire development was crafted to meet the stringent HUD design and administrative requirements along with National Green Building Standards. To view a virtual tour of the design, please visit our YouTube channel.
Client: Saunders Development
Specifications: Wood frame | 264 units
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The Lookout on Cragmor
The Lookout on Cragmor
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) required additional housing to support their ever-growing student population that wanted to live on or close to campus. The Lookout on Cragmor is a 5-story apartment building featuring 71 units that feature one to four-bedroom units. At lower than average construction costs, The Lookout was a positive solution that allowed UCCS to house students while being as close to campus as possible. Each student has individual access to their bedroom with a shared living room and kitchen areas. This particular student housing building also provides office space and a fitness center for student residents. Using EVstudio’s in-house multiple disciplines allowed the client to stay on budget while also providing high-design solutions attractive to today’s students.
The design of this student housing project is both modern and keeps in mind the safety of the students living in the building. Energy efficiency is a high priority for the University, so components such as high-efficiency lighting systems, hydronic heating, and building overhangs to provide solar shading were put in place in the design phase. Each unit was also given its own meter so it can be separately metered and served from a meter bank located on that floor.
Client: Newsome Development
Specifications: Wood frame | 81,905 GSF with 71 units
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The world needs affordable housing. We will help you build it.
- Financing hurdles. There is a lot of red tape to get a project HUD, or LIHTC funded. Thankfully, we can assist you in the process with design compliance from our team of experienced designers.
- Designing with tight budgets. When every penny counts, your project will benefit from our in-house multidisciplinary teams all working together with your needs first and foremost. One A/E team working together for you, not an extraneous list of designers with their own priorities.
- Ensure efficiency of circulation. We design all projects to creatively account for required circulation, including driveways, sidewalks, stairs, elevators, and corridors.
- Create the right choice of systems. Based on decades of combined experience, we optimize structural, mechanical, and electrical systems for efficiency and functionality.
- Sustainable Design Options. Sustainability is a core strength and something we can prioritize when crafting your building designs. Whether it's energy modeling for Energy Star of C-PACE financing, we can do it all.