Housing Authority picks developer for Adams Point

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Brighton will get 60 new units of a ordable housing and commercial development based on a Brighton Housing Authority plan.

e housing authority announced it had accepted a bid from MGL partners as co-developers of the Adams Point project. Plans call for the project, with 60 units of a ordable housing, to go up on a 7.38 acre Adams County-owned parcel at 1931 E. Bridge St. at’s the former site of the County courthouse, before it moved to 1100 Judicial Drive in Brighton, about three miles southeast.

Bristol said they are in the very beginning stages and still trying to gure out exactly how many units for each phase because it may be a multiple-phase project, said Debra Bristol, executive director of the Brighton Housing Authority.

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“ ere is an entrenchment of urban and rural divides. In this narrative, we will not let the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) be cut, and the other side says SNAP will be cut,” Cavaveo said..”I’m concentrating on this to because they are still going through the process and planning they do not have a cost as if yet,” Bristol said.

“We got a co-developer on at the end of last year and have been working with us to get through the o cial donation process and this property is o cially now owned by Brighton Housing Authority.”

County o cials were pleased to see new construction.

“A ordable housing is the foundation that enables people to support their families and contribute to economies,” County Commissioner Steve O’Dorisio said. “Fair and a ordable housing should be a basic right, and that’s why it was crucial for Adams County to donate this piece of property. It’s transactions and housing developments such as this that move us forward in the right direction.” e commissioners approved donating the piece of land at Bridge Street to build the Adams Point housing project. ensure pediatricians like myself can continue these needed programs so kids don’t have hunger issues.”

Inflation Reduction Act e housing authority manages about 500 a ordable housing units developed within ten years. e authority began taking bids on the Adams Point project in July 2022 and received four bids. ose were reviewed in October, with MGL Partners getting the contract.

Bristol said, they are moving forward to the next pre-development phase looking for professionals to help start that conceptual design process determining the scope and the size of the project focusing on seniors, and families as while as a development team.

“We are excited about moving forward, we have land to develop on, it’s a community engagement process and looking at what the community needs are and making sure the project meets those community needs,” Bristol said.

Housing authority o cials said that the company has a good reputation in the industry and quali ca- tions were ranked the highest of all the bids received to meet its project mapped-out criteria plan within the housing authority bid packet.

“We’re happy to be working with Adams County and MGL Partners on this project,” said Debra Bristol, executive director of the authority.

“BHA’s success in managing and co-developing housing projects is a demonstration of our Authority’s ability to optimize funds effectively and efficiently. We look forward to adding Adams Point to our development portfolio of affordable housing in Brighton.”

The Brighton Housing Authority increased affordable housing from 16 units to 500 since 2012, awarding tax credits and grants. As of today, the housing authority awarded five rounds of tax credits for building Brighton Village I/II, Libretto I/II, and Windmill Ranch affordable housing, according to officials.

Billed as a question-and-answer update of the federal In ation Reduction Act signed into law last year, the ornton Active Adult discussion never strayed far from prescription prices. e In ation Reduction Act was the nal result of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better e orts. It included reforms meant to promote green energy options, to close tax loopholes on corporations and those making $400,000 and to lower health care premiums.

But the act also allows the government to negotiate drug prices on certain pharmaceuticals. at is key for Becerra. He noted those negotiations have lowered the price of insulin to $35 for senior Medicare patients, with hopes that will lower the cost for privately insured patients.

“Moving forward, we are going to start being able to negotiate prices on more drugs under the Medicare program,” he said..”If what happens with insulin happens with other drugs, we should begin to see the prices go down and not just for the people on Medicare but for everyone.”

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Moderated by Lily Griego, a regional director of the federal Health and Human Services Department, the roundtable discussion included local Caraveo supporters from ornton and Greeley. But Colorado o cials from the Polis Administration, the AARP and City of ornton were also on hand to listen.

U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and regional HHS Director Lily Griego listen as Judy Kron makes a point during a roundtable discussion on the Inflation Reduction Act at Thornton’s Active Adult Center April 4.

John Bass, Broom eld resident who retired from the construction industry after a cancer diagnosis said relief from the cost of medicine is key.

“I accidentally got a bill once for my treatment and it was only $13,000 a shot,” Bass said..”And I just freaked out. I’d just gone on Medicare and I didn’t know how to x it.”

Former Greeley Dentist Rocky Kron, a Kaiser Permanente customer now, took it a step further, saying it medical groups save money and make medicine better.

“I’m a huge supporter of community health centers and I think my experience with Kaiser Permanente has been better because of the coordination of bene ts, similar to what Congresswoman Caraveo was talking about with Salud,” Kron said..” e services are all coordinated and the doctors are all working together in the same plant so they can talk to each other. I think we need to move to a more socialized form of medicine to lower costs and coordinate care.”