Bronx Seniors Welcome Low-Income Housing
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Wednesday for a $65 million housing development for low-income seniors in the Bronx that will be built on property owned by a local religious order.
Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation is leasing the property for 99 years from the Ursuline Bedford Park Community, and will develop an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly senior complex.
“Our numbers are getting smaller as a religious community and we’re getting older and we need to look around for other means of keeping ourselves supplied with enough funds to do our work,” said Sister Dorothy Ann Kelly of the Ursuline Sisters.
The sisters, who have run since 1892 the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, a girls’ school, will receive about $8 million dollars from the use of the portion of their campus. Sister Superior Pascal Conforti said that the property was “under-utilized.”
“Part of this project — 70 of the units are in a new structure, and on the sides we will build two additional wings,” said FBHC Executive Director John Reilly. “So all together, it’s a big project with 240 apartments.”
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