The ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing has announced two winners for this year’s Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award, as well as two winners for the Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing.
“Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Kemp and Innovation Awards,” said Ron Terwilliger, Chair of the Awards Jury and Founder of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. “Each of these developments adds much needed housing supply to their communities, providing homes for America’s hardworking families. Beyond their local impact, we hope these projects can serve as models for the larger industry, offering replicable financing, regulatory and design solutions. We applaud the creativity and innovation of the development teams behind these projects and congratulate them for their exemplary work.”
The Kemp Award was established in 2008 in memory of Jack Kemp, a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a national advisory board member of the Terwilliger Center. It recognizes developments that use innovative financing sources to provide attainable mixed-income housing, primarily focusing on households earning from 60 percent to 120 percent of area median income.
The Terwilliger Center created the Award for Innovation in 2022 to recognize unique yet replicable developments that offer or preserve deeper affordability.
This year’s winners for the Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing award are:
Chattanooga Missing Middle: Building Inclusive Communities for All, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga Missing Middle features 182 units of infill housing built on 50 scattered vacant lots in the Highland Park and Ridgedale neighborhoods. The new construction includes duplexes, quadplexes, and a small-scale apartment building, with a cottage courtyard made possible by easing setback and parking requirements to allow the higher density. This project is the centerpiece of a community-based effort to revitalize neighborhoods known for walkability and proximity to downtown.
The Laureate, Rockville, Maryland. The newest addition to the Westside at Shady Grove Metro neighborhood in Washington, D.C.’s metropolitan area, the Laureate offers 268 units ranging from studios to three-bedrooms. It is the first development to use Montgomery County’s innovative new Housing Production Fund, created to develop high-quality affordable housing. The property also includes 21,000 square feet (1,950 sq m) of ground-level retail featuring a CVS and nearly 7,400 square feet (680 sq m) of office space. The building was designed to National Green Building Standard Silver threshold and is a short walk from the Shady Grove Metro Station and a Capital Bikeshare.
This year’s winners of the Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing are:
425 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. 425 Grand Concourse is a 26-story, 277-unit mixed-use/mixed-income project located in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. The project currently stands as the largest Passive House–certified multifamily development in North America. The mix of uses includes a 29,000 square-foot (2,690 sq m) City University of New York (CUNY) educational facility, a 4,000 square-foot (370 sq m) healthcare facility, a 1,200 square-foot cultural space, a 12,000 square-foot (110 sq m) locally operated supermarket, and a 400 square-foot (40 sq m) community comfort station.
PAH! Hiland Plaza, Albuquerque, New Mexico. PAH! Hiland Plaza (PAH) is Albuquerque’s first multifamily housing designed with and for the Deaf community. The innovative, four-story, mixed-use, transit-oriented development includes 92 one-, two-, and three-bedroom rental apartment homes. PAH is the largest housing development serving the Deaf community in the nation, and the only one designed to accommodate households with children. Features designed for Deaf residents include strobe light doorbells and fire alarms, a video entry system, and building modifications to support residents’ ability to participate equally in social events.
The jury for the two awards is chaired by Ron Terwilliger, founder of the ULI Terwilliger Center and chairman of Terwilliger Pappas Multifamily Partners.
Other jury members are:
- Paul Bernard, president and CEO, Affordable Homes and Communities, Arlington, Virginia
- Rodger Brown, managing director of real estate development, Preservation of Affordable Housing, Boston, Massachusetts
- Payton Chung, managing partner, Westover Green, Washington, D.C.
- Vicki Davis, managing partner, Urban Atlantic, Bethesda, Maryland
- Jill Ferrari, cofounder and managing partner, Renovare Development, Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Kirsty Greer, chief development officer, Ulysses Development Group, Denver, Colorado
- Con Howe, managing director, Cityview, Los Angeles, California
- Cari Jones, managing partner and director of design, Cline Design Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Sara Myerson, managing director, MSquared, Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Mark Richardson, chief technology officer, Rich Analytics, Toronto, Ontario
- Stacy Silber, attorney, Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd., Bethesda, Maryland
- Jaydan Tait, president and CEO, Attainable Homes Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
For questions about the housing awards program, email [email protected].
