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Affordable housing plan awaits OK from church
Plan would build 5 homes with $1M grant
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An Antioch Baptist Church parking lot on Mill Street across from the church may soon be the entrance to an affordable housing project on an empty lot along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The gravel parking lot will remain but will need improvements such as paving and striping.
While the plan has been downsized, city officials and many members of the local community believe a better project is now in the works to build five homes on land between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Mill Street in Gainesville. But Antioch Baptist Church will have to give its approval before the project can proceed. City housing officials presented the latest proposal to build affordable homes with a $1 million grant to local residents at the church on Thursday night.