The Pittsburgh Housing Authority is beginning to seek tenants for townhomes planned in the Hill District's Addison Terrace complex.
The agency is turning first to former residents who were displaced about two years ago to make way for construction of a mixed-income development around Elmore Square and Bentley Drive, said spokesman Chuck Rohrer.
"We're trying to figure out who wants to return," Rohrer said, noting the authority relocated about 300 families to clear the way for the first phase of work. Some moved into authority housing units elsewhere or received Section 8 housing vouchers.
The Housing Authority is spending $164.5 million in a federally funded project to replace more than 700 public housing units built in the 1940s with 400 new apartments and townhouses. The authority will build 186 units in the first phase.
The first 50 townhomes, mostly two- and three-bedroom units, are scheduled to be done by December.
Interested residents who lived at Addison Terrace on April 11, 2011, are asked to call Cassandra Palmer at 412-456-5000, ext. 1014, or visit the authority's Occupancy Department at 100 Ross St., fourth floor.
Tom Fontaine is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7847 or tfontaine [at] tribweb.com.