Affordable housing community opens in Greenville

Gateway at the Green, a new all-affordable 72-unit apartment community on Webb Road in Greenville, officially opened Oct. 15 — not only complete but also fully leased.

“We knew this would be a really convenient workforce location,” Bryan Brown, Greenville Housing Fund‘s president and CEO., said in a news release. The location was chosen for its proximity near businesses on Mall Connector, Congaree and Woodruff Roads, as well as close to the Patewood medical campuses and a new city of Greenville, Greenville County, and state of South  Carolina public services cluster around the corner on Halton Road.

All units at Gateway at the Green are intended to be affordable for families and households earning less than 60% of area median income. Thirteen units are reserved to support renters earning between 20-30%, meaning a working, single person earning roughly $13,500 annually would be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment at Gateway at the Green, according to the news release.

“Greenville Housing Fund works to make highly intentional and strategic investments targeted to meet the deepest affordability needs in our community,” Brown said in the release. “This partnership with The Gateway Companies of Birmingham, Ala., (the primary developer), SC Housing, and the city of Greenville illustrates exactly the kind of reach we hope to achieve to serve working families and individuals, even those earning minimum wage. And Gateway at the Green is also just a really beautiful, well-designed site.”

Gateway at the Green’s three-story buildings contain a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments set around plentiful parking in a woodsy setting with attractive, naturalized landscaping, the release stated. The development meets high energy-efficiency and sustainable development standards, including the use of Energy Star appliances and achievement of EarthCraft MultiFamily Certification, a green-building certification program developed by the Southface Institute and the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association. The central clubhouse offers multiple amenities for residents, including a playground, laundry facilities, a computer lab, a fitness room, a community gathering space, and the leasing office. GreenLink Transit connections are also nearby.

Veretta Lindsay, a member of GHF’s board of directors, opened her remarks to the gathered elected officials, residents and development partners by citing a quote from Coretta Scott King.

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actors of its members,” she said. “and I speak for all residents when I say welcome to my happy place, here at Gateway at the Green!”

Since its inception, the Greenville Housing Fund has invested over $23 million and leveraged $400 million in creating or preserving more than 1,900 units of housing in Greenville County, many affordable to households living on as little as 30% of the area median income.