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The Review October 28, 2014 DIXON | LOW-INCOME HOUSING
$3M revamp set for March Dixon Square Apartments getting interior, exterior upgrades
BY CHRISTI WARREN
DIXON – A low-income housing project in Dixon is getting a $3 million facelift come March. Dixon Square Apartments, 1540 Freedom Walk, will be overhauling its 72 Section8-designated units. Tenants
will be getting new kitchens and bathrooms, and substantial improvements are expected for the roof and siding, too, said Steve Rappin, president of VeriGreen Development. Chicago-based VeriGreen owns and manages about 30
low-income housing projects throughout Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and North Carolina, including Dixon Square Apartments. Renovations are expected to take a year, and no residents will be displaced, Rappin said. “It will be in-place rehab,” he
said. “We will likely not move people out, and if we did need to, we would pay to move them to some sort of extended-stay hotel.” For example, builders will work on the kitchen during the day, then put it back together at night, he said.
Dixon Square Apartments is one of 14 low-income housing projects statewide that has been awarded tax credits through the Illinois Housing Development Authority, which will fund the rehab project.
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