The West Side Community Land Trust has purchased land for 120 senior apartments on West Boulevard, the nonprofit’s first foray into multi-family housing.
The land trust recently bought more than 4.5 acres on West Boulevard near Tyvola Road and is working with Georgia-based affordable housing developer The Paces Foundation to build the Historic Nathaniel Carr Senior Community. It is named for the revered creator of the first neighborhood in the West Boulevard corridor, built specifically for Black families.
Acquiring already scarce vacant land in west Charlotte is critical to preserving access to affordable housing, said Charis Blackmon, the land trust’s executive director. The nonprofit works to address rapid gentrification and displacement in historically Black west Charlotte neighborhoods by building and preserving homes to keep them permanently affordable.