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Roswell Housing Authority plans redevelopment $6 million funding gap remains for Grove Way By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell Housing Authority is scrambling to find funding for a near-$30 million redevelopment of the 199 Grove Way apartments where more than 30 tenants were displaced last year. The Housing Authority’s 199 Grove Way in the Pelfrey Pines public housing development consists of 40 one-bedroom units serving tenants who earn below 80 percent of the area median income. The units were also designated for seniors and people with disabilities. Last March, residents were notified that they would need to relocate by the end of August after the City of Roswell deemed the property structurally unsound. Only one resident remains, but Karen Parrish, chairwoman of the Roswell Housing Authority, said the woman is set to move into a new unit soon. While the agency commissioned a 2017 engineering report citing several structural issues at the housing facility, Parrish said she wasn’t made aware of them until 2019. The Feb. 14 board meeting was Parrish’s fifth anniversary as board chair. Since then, Parrish said the
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