Caird Redevelopment Project
RMDC Awarded Neighborhood Stabilization Funds for Caird Site Clean Up
Helena MT On August 3, 2010, Rocky Mountain Development Council (RMDC) learned that the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Montana Department of Commerce (DOC) awarded Lewis & Clark County two million dollars for RMDC’s use to acquire, clean up and begin redevelop of the Caird Engineering property for senior housing and other uses. The funds awarded by HUD and DOC come from the third round of Neighborhood Stabilization dollars allocated to Montana.
After purchasing the property, RMDC anticipates that demolition and Brownsfield site contamination clean up will take from six to nine months and employ sizeable private clean-up crews. While that work proceeds, RMDC will finish the tax and funding package needed to begin construction of the first 30-unit senior housing facility on the southern edge of the site. RMDC will continue community conversations about additional project phases including good ways to use the Montana Avenue portions of the site.
RMDC is now partnering with Helena Housing Authority (HHA) in several capacities and has joined conversations among institutional neighbo
rhood partners including HHA, the Helena School District, UM-Helena College of Technology, and the City.
For additional information about the Caird Redevelopment Project, you may want to review the following documents:
Fact Sheet – General Caird FAQs
Fact Sheet – Caird Project Economic Development Benefits
Fact Sheet – Need for Senior Housing
Fact Sheet – Cleanup in Layman's Language
Fact Sheet – Why This Location
Fact Sheet – Community Engagement
Full Caird site – proposed development
Additionally, here are some architect's renderings of what a commercial/mixed use building might look like on the corner of Montana and Boulder; an aerial view of Phase 1 Senior Housing; and a street view of Phase 1 Senior Housing.
For further information, contact Mat Rude, RMDC Director of Affordable Housing, at mrude@rmdc.net or 442-1236 ext. 105.
