Groundbreaking For a New Farmworker Housing Development in Immokalee

Posted At : March 24, 2010 5:25 PM | Posted By : Steve Hart
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Immokalee, Florida – March 23, 1010. Florida Non-Profit Services, Inc. ("FNPS") and Immokalee Housing and Family Services ("IHFS") are pleased to announce that a groundbreaking ceremony was held on Monday, March 22nd for the Esperanza Place Apartments – Phase I, a development of 47 one, two and three bedroom multifamily rental residences for occupancy by farmworking families. The Esperanza Place Planned Unit Development, within which these new units are being built, will eventually contain 176 multifamily units, and 62 single family homes.

Financing for this development is being provided by the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA"), Florida Housing Finance Corporation, Immokalee Community Redevelopment Agency ("CRA"), J.P. Morgan, and the Community Foundation of Collier County.

Although this is the first development constructed by FNPS, its sister organization, IHFS (formerly Immokalee Non-Profit Housing) has developed, and owned for the past 18 years, Sanders Pines, a 40 unit farmworker multifamily housing complex, as well as Timber Ridge, which consists of 34 single family affordable homes. To learn more about these non-profits, please log onto www.ihfservices.org.

Photo: Front row from left to right: Penny Phillippi, Immokalee CRA,

Carl Kuehner, FNPS, and Michael Botelho, Tresca Clemmons

and Angela Prioleau, USDA.