Cumberland County Housing and Redevelopment Authority

Completed North East Street (Carlisle) Revitalization Project.
Completed Bridge Street (New Cumberland) Streetscape Project.
Completed rehabilitation of six apartments for persons with developmental disabilities on North East Street (Carlisle).

2007

Completion of $3 million Molly Pitcher Hotel conversion to senior apartments, retail shop.
PA Department of Community and Economic Development approves $368,000 Elm Street Reinvestment Grant to initiate residential facade program and streetscape program in New Cumberland.

2006

HUD approves ten year rental assistance contract with the Housing Authority for conversion of church in Enola into apartment for persons with MH/MR disabilities.
PA Department of Community and Economic Development approves application for $500,000 for redevelopment of property at 25 West High Street into housing for Dickinson College students (upper floors) and retail/commercial space on first floor.

2005

North Street Pride project (rehabilitation of 15 houses and construction of five new houses for first time buyers) completed.
$1 million approved by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for rehabilitation of upper floors of Business Central (former Woolworth building) into office space for technology tenants.

2004

$500,000 grant is obtained from Pa Department of Community and Economic Development for the purchase of the Molly Pitcher Hotel.
Centenary project (restoration of fire damaged property in Downtown Carlisle) completed.
Three group homes completed in conjunction with Cumberland/Perry Housing Initiatives and United Cerebral Palsy.
A turn of the century drug store in Mechanicsburg, known as Eckels Drug, is restored and opens as a gift shop and soda fountain.

2003

Redevelopment Authority, through its subsidiary Hometown Development Corporation, redevelops former Woolworth building in downtown Carlisle, into a downtown business center. The building is known as "Business Central".
Redevelopment Authority packages funding for the adaptive reuse of a former dress factory on North Bedford Street in Carlisle into a 100 dealer antique cooperative.

2002

Obtained funding for the construction of a 12-15 emergency shelter in Carlisle.
Obtained funding for the Newville Town Center Project.
Rehabilitation of six unit single room occupancy building in Mechanicsburg area completed.
$750,000 in state funds approved for the conversion of a former factory building in Carlisle into a small business incubator (Murata Business Center).

2001

East Gate Apartments (40 units of senior housing) opens in South Middleton.
Cyberspace Computer Resource Center completed

2000

Transportation enhancement grant (Newville and Shippensburg Township) approved -- Cumberland Valley Rails-to-Trails trailhead improvements.
Funding approved for Tollgate Hill (Shippensburg) and North Street Pride (Carlisle).

1999

Brethren House Apartments (Mechanicsburg) completed.
Carlisle Comfort Suites Hotel (Carlisle) completed.

1998

Pitt Street Pride (Phase 1) completed.
North Newton Hills homes completed.

1997

Mountain View apartments (Newville) completed.
Pitt Street Pride project announced.

1996

American House apartments (Mechanicsburg) completed.
Enola homeownership voucher program begins.

1995

Valley Ridge Apartments (Middlesex Township) completed.
Chestnut Commons Senior Housing (Mt. Holly Springs) completed.

1994

HUD approves additional funds for public housing homeownership in Enola.
Drug elimination grant approved for Housing Authority.

1993

PA Department of Community Affairs approves $175,000 for owner-occupied housing rehabilitation in Lemoyne and $200,000 to initiate first-time homebuyer program in Shippensburg.
Housing Authority awarded $942,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to expand public housing homeownership program into Lemoyne Borough.

1992

Two West Penn completed.
Housing Authority awarded Public Housing funds to construct 10 units of elderly public housing in Mt. Holly Springs.

1991

Ground broken on Two West Penn Senior Housing.
Grandview Court and Cherry Court completed.
Housing Authority awarded $2.8 million grant to acquire and rehabilitate 30 houses under Public Housing Homeownership Program in communities of Enola, Shippensburg and Mt. Holly Springs.

1990

Ground broken on 50 units of Family Public Housing to be known as Grandview Court and Cherry Court.
PA Department of Community Affairs approves $120,000 for housing rehabilitation program in Newville Borough.

1989

Cumberland County Housing Authority receives $2.1 million funding approval to build 50 units of senior housing at Two West Penn site in Carlisle.
PA Department of Community Affairs approves $120,000 for housing rehabilitation in West Fairview Borough.

1988

Cumberland County Redevelopment Authority begins housing rehabilitation program in Perry County.
PA Department of Community Affairs approves $200,000 for renter and owner-occupied housing rehabilitation in Mt. Holly Springs Borough.

1987

Cumberland County Housing Authority receives $3 million funding approval to construct 50 additional units of Public Housing in Carlisle.

1986

Housing rehabilitation programs in Shippensburg Borough and Township begin.

1985

Cumberland County Housing Authority receives invitation from U.S. Department of Housing and urban Development to participate in county-wide Voucher Rental Assistance Demonstration Project.

1984

$150,000 approved by PA Department of Community Affairs for housing rehabilitation in Mt. Holly Springs, Newville and Newburg.

1983

$340,000 approved by PA Department of Community Affairs for Commercial Revitalization Program in Mechanicsburg.

1982

First Public Housing units open; ground broken on additional 25 units in Carlisle.
Penn School is converted into senior citizen housing with a loan from Carlisle Community Development Block Grant Program.

1981

Ground broken on first 75 units of Public Housing in Carlisle.
$1.5 million Community Development Block Grant for Carlisle approved.

1980

High Street (Carlisle) Improvement Project begins.

1979

$500,000 Fairground Avenue (Carlisle) Housing Rehabilitation Program begins.

1978

Cumberland County Housing Authority's application for 10 units of Public Housing in Carlisle is approved by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Hanover Street (Carlisle) Improvement Project begins.

1977

$150,000 Bedford Street (Carlisle) Housing Rehabilitation Program begins.

1976

Cumberland County Housing Authority receives approval from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for first 50 county-wide rental assistance certificates.

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