Archive for October 8th, 2008

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What They’re Saying

October 8, 2008

Anyone catch this article in Sunday’s Sun? GGP’s Greg Hamm was quoted as saying, “This proposal doesn’t represent a first draft. This is what we think works.”

From everything we’ve seen, we think it does too. Give GGP credit for assembling a world class team of architects, cultural and master planners, designers and environmental experts to bring us a new vision of our town.

It’s also clear that they listened to the community as evidenced by their decision to implement the plan with three phases of incremental growth. This means GGP must meet certain adequate public facilities benchmarks before the next phase of housing is granted.

Explore Howard also covers the story here. And The Washington Post had a nice article as well.

In other news, we are now on facebook and myspace. Please stop by and add us as your friend! Also, we are planning our next event right now, so check back often for details.

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C20 Asserts Position on Affordable Housing

October 8, 2008

The term affordable housing might be interpreted as traditional low income housing.  But, in Town Center, affordable housing might just mean that 20-somethings may be able to live right in the heart of the City.  We know that Howard Co is an expensive place to live and might expect the the new first-class residential units in Town Center to be out of the reach of young people.  Not so due to GGP’s commitment to make 20% of those new units more affordable.  See a great article from The Examiner article below!

http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/Affordable_housing_a_priority_for_new_Columbia.html