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Low-income apartments targeted for renovation
$18 million investment will update units, convert some for disabled
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Renovations are planned for the Ridgecrest Apartments off Park Hill Drive in Gainesville. Windows, appliances, floors and paint will be updated as necessary, and a second bathroom will be added to all three-bedroom units. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Big renovations are planned for the Ridgecrest apartments off Park Hill Drive in Gainesville, a welcome respite for resident Terrie Powers, who has absorbed the deteriorating quality of the homes over 24 years but wouldn’t think about leaving. “Everyone gets along in the building,” Powers said at a community meeting on the project held at the Fair Street neighborhood center on Tuesday. “We have our little qualms now and then.”