Zygmunt Arendt House, 850 Broderick
In a comment below, someone asked for more information about the plans for the Zygmunt Arendt House at 850 Broderick. Key points from a presentation at last week's NOPNA general meeting are below:
1) Jeff Kositsky, Executive Director from Community Housing Partnership (CHP) was at the meeting speaking about the Arendt House.
2) Mr. Zygmunt Arendt was a World War II refugee and former railroad worker according the CHP write-up they handed out to people at the meeting.
3) CHP quoted they success rate was 99.2% and it is one of the best records in the nation for their category of work.
4) Architects are WRT/Solomon E.T.C. (link + link)
5) Construction will begin late 2007 or early 2008 and the project is estimated to be completed in 15 months (opening in 2009)
6) Next community meeting is scheduled for Wed. Aug. 23rd at 7pm at 850 Broderick.
A resident of NOPA with experience in this field also stood up during the presentation to attest to the quality of work by this developer and said "If anyone was doing this development, I would want it to be these guys."
We will update with more information as we recieve it...
posted by Kevin @ 8:49 PM
11 Comments:
Here's an article written by Matt Smith in the SF Weekly back in 2004 about Arendt and his financial legacy.
I guess we (NOPNA) are some of the 'neighbors' he refers to in the article...
If you'd rather avoid the fallacious and pig-headed comments of a pro-developer shill like Matt Smith, please click
HERE
is Todd always an a**hole?
Yes, always. But I do have love in my heart.
Maybe. But with that attitude you repel more than convince.
Isn't it a bit hilly around that block of Broderick? Does it make sense to build housing for the elderly on a hill?
Dude,
Who says I'm trying to "convince." Are you imposing your values on me or something? I think my father is supposed to do that.
off topic:
for those who are interested, we have created a discussion board that is open to all nopa residents. you can find it at www.nopaslist.org.
-dan
I still don't get it.. could you provide more details about WHAT is planned, rather than WHO is doing it. What is there now? What is proposed to replace it and why?
Thanks! :)
about the plans and information:
we had another presentation at our last NOPNA meeting about this project, and while it's always hard to fully understand what is going to happen from presentations by people involved (or fighting against, for that matter), coming to NOPNA meetings really helps keep one informed.
--- Hint, Hint ---
to sum up:
- formerly homeless senior males who have passed certain tests of stability will be living there under social service/part time care.. there will be things like AA meetings and counseling available on site.
- while I personally think it's crazy for the city to *buy* a building, knock it down and build an new one (instead of lease spaces as they have always done in the past) in a neighborhood that is quite full already with social service providers, some believe the folks who are in charge of this process will do a good job.
Why are people in the neighborhood against this?
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