[Archived] Chatham Square Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

City Press Release


	City of Alexandria, Virginia Office of the City Manager Alexandria City Hall 301 King Street, Suite 3500 Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3211 www.alexandriava.gov Telephone: 703.838.4300 Fax : 703.838.6343

For Immediate Release
January 11, 2005
PIO 013-05/rdo

MEDIA ADVISORY

Chatham Square Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
New Community Replaces Former Samuel Madden Homes Public Housing

What: The Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority (ARHA), the City of Alexandria, and Eakin/Youngentob Associates have scheduled a scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Chatham Square, a new, mixed-income community that replaces the former Samuel Madden Homes (Downtown) public housing complex in Alexandria.

Who: ARHA Chairman A. Melvin Miller and Chief Executive Officer William M. Dearman; City of Alexandria Mayor William D. Euille; Eakin/Youngentob Associates President Robert Youngentob; Virginia Governor Mark Warner and Congressman Jim Moran are invited guest speakers.

When: Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 10 am (RAIN OR SHINE)

Where: The event will take place at Cook Street (just south of Pendleton Street) between N. Pitt Street and N. Royal Street.

Why: This project is an innovative public-private partnership resulting in 152-residential units on the former Samuel Madden site, 52 of which will be affordable rental homes operated as public housing units, and 100 of which will be market-rate townhouses for sale to the public. In addition, 48 other public housing units will be constructed on three other sites in the City. The new community replaces the former 100-unit Samuel Madden Homes, which was built in the 1940s.

Information: For more information, call Connie Lennox of the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority at 703.549.7115 ext. 231, or Barbara Gordon of the City of Alexandria at 703.838.4300.

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