A 43-unit affordable senior housing project is under construction at 2220 N Silverbell Road on the Westside of Tucson. The owner, Silverwood Casitas, is a 501(c)3 Arizona non-profit corporation (John Glaze, President) on 5.9 acres at the southwest corner of Silverbell and Grant Roads.

The project is Section 202 HUD Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program.

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HUD provides capital advances to finance the construction of structures that will serve as supportive housing for very low-income elderly persons, including the frail elderly, and provides rent subsidies for the projects to help make them affordable.

HUD provides interest-free capital advances to private, nonprofit sponsors to finance the development of supportive housing for the elderly. The capital advance does not have to be repaid as long as the project serves very low-income elderly persons for 40 years.

The Section 202 program helps expand the supply of affordable housing with supportive services for the elderly. It provides very low-income elderly with options that allow them to live independently but in an environment that provides support activities such as cleaning, cooking, transportation, etc.

Project rental assistance funds are provided to cover the difference between the HUD-approved operating cost for the project and the tenants’ contribution towards rent. Project rental assistance contracts are approved initially for 3 years and are renewable based on the availability of funds.

The general contractor, Tofel Construction of Tucson, is responsible for delivery of the project at a $4.2 million construction cost. Poster Frost Mirto of Tucson is the architect. March 2014 is the anticipated delivery date.

Glaze can be reached at (520) 318-0993. Tofel can be contacted at (520) 571-0505. The Architects, Poster Frost Mirto are at (520) 882-6310.

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[ismember]On 3/27/2013, Family Housing Resources, Inc (John Glaser) transferred the 5.9 acres of vacant land to Silverwood Casitas (John Glazer) for a declared value per affidavit of value of $545,000 in a non-arms length transaction. West Submarket. [/ismember]

In real estate we all know the phrase, location, location, location; the equivalent in the medical marijuana field is CHAA, CHAA, CHAA. When Arizona voters approved Prop. 203 in 2010 legalizing medical marijuana dispensaries at the state level, Arizona Department of Health Services rules had already divided Arizona into 126 areas called Community Health Analysis Areas (CHAA) that were originally established to track cancer occurrences.

The rules limit the number of Arizona medical marijuana dispensaries in a CHAA to ONE! The goal of ADHS Director Will Humble is to disperse the current 97 dispensary applications throughout Arizona to minimize the number of patients who will be able to grow their own because the patient does not live within 25 miles of a dispensary.

This article has been archived, please login for access or subscribe now for a free trial.[mepr-show rules=”58038″]As the first medical marijuana dispensary in Oro Valley opens today, Catalina Hills Botanical Care, at 12152 N Rancho Vistoso Blvd in Oro Valley, five other applications from the Tucson area were received by the state’s deadline of June 7, 2013.

A Department of Health spokesperson told us there were 49 applications received during the final week before June 7th. For our region, in these last day applications were also Ajo, Catalina, Tanque Verde, Arivaca, Douglas and Benson CHAAs received by the state.

Nature Med, with a dispensary in Glendale, AZ opened since December, applied for another store at 5390 West Ina Road in Marana. When the 5,440 sq. ft. building at 6205 N Travel Center Drive, in the Orange Grove / I-10 Plaza, in Marana sold for $710,000 ($130 PSF) it was on the market for only one week. A quick sale due to the CHAA.

Paul Hooker and Pet Welchert of Cushman & Wakefield / Picor Commercial Real Estate represented the seller in the transaction.

Currently, Marana has designated two dispensaries within the town limits, although there are three CHAA that touch Marana. The number permitted shall be restricted to two and increased by one for each Marana population increase of 50,000 over and above the official census figure for Marana that was approximately 35,000 in 2010.

Title 8 in Marana’s Land Development Code requires dispensaries to obtain a Conditional Use Permit in order meet state requirements for 50% on-site cultivation and 50% dispensary in the building. Both properties in Marana are in industrial zoned areas, have received their conditional use permits and submitted applications for state certification.

Pursuant to Title 8, dispensaries must be farther than 2,000 feet from another dispensary, 2,000 feet from a residential substance abuse or treatment facility, 1,000 feet from any type of school or educational facility that caters to children including 1,000 feet from a childcare center, 1,000 feet from a public library or public park, 1,000 feet from a church, and 1,000 feet from any facility devoted to family recreation or entertainment.

But the process is far from finished having met the June 7th deadline, there are numerous state requirements and inspections still to be passed. Arizona has already certified 27 dispensaries since December 2012 with 70 more applications. There has also been more than a dozen lawsuits filed against the state for taking too long to process applications before these regulations were established.

For the applicants that met the June 7 deadline, the next deadline for them will be August 7th, when the state approval to operate must be verified “in process” in order to meet all the other state requirements such as inventory control, tenant improvements, certificate of occupancy, etc.. Failure to meet this deadline would disqualify an applicant from further state certification at that location.

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The 5,440 SF building on a 22,647 SF lot is of block construction at 6205 N Travel Center Drive in Marana (built 2005). Lot 18 Orange Grove I-10 Plaza bk 57 pg 68. APN #101-06-076. It has one grade level door and was vacant at time of sale, previously occupied by the seller, Thompson & Hurley, LLC dba Arizona Health. Market time reported by broker was 1 week with a 30-day all-cash close. [/ismember]

A former Kindercare Preschool at 7251 N Meredith Blvd. in Marana sold for $325,000 ($71 PSF) to Ronald Benitto and Haydee Catacora. The preschool closed about one year ago and was purchased to lease or for redevelopment by the investor.

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Located off Ina and Thornydale Road, the property is situate behind the Fry’s shopping center at a major shopping intersection in Marana. The leasing agent, Tim De Niro of Commercial Real Estate Group of Tucson believes the 4,567 sq. ft. building with a 23,534 sq. ft. lot has a lot of potential for re-development as a single-tenant professional office use such as for an engineering or accounting firm, or is ideal for a charter school.

Roger Breckenridge of Long Realty represented the seller, The Lok Revocable Family Trust (Bruce and Uyen Lok) who were downsizing their portfolio in the sale. Tim De Niro represented the buyer and continues to be retained by the buyer

The past years have been difficult ones for daycare operators. Across the nation, daycare operators are in the same boat. The recession hits them from two sides: They have been hemorrhaging income as laid-off parents pull their kids from daycare, while subsidies from deficit-ridden governments were being slashed at the same time.

Arizona’s child care assistance programs are administered by the Department of Economic Security’s Child Care Administration. Assistance in paying for all or part of child care costs are guaranteed to those enrolled in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), employed and transitioning off of TANF, or within the Child Protective Services (CPS) system. When funding is available, assistance is offered to qualified families with incomes below 165% of the federal poverty level, which for a family of three is about $30,216.

The Arizona Child Care Association weighed in on the budget issue this month voicing concerns that 4,000 CPS children may be removed. In April 2009, more than 15,000 parents in Arizona got letters from the state saying there were no more funds for daycare subsidies. The Legislature appropriated $18.2 million in federal stimulus money to restore the subsidies, but the state had to reduce rates paid to providers by 5% in the process.

Governor Brewer has requested $9.6 million in 2014 to fund the increase in CPS child care and to prevent the removal of 4,000 currently served children beginning in July. Without the $9.6 million, child care for low income working families will be reduced from 29,600 children in February 2009 to only 4,500 children – an 85% reduction.

De Niro can be reached at (520) 299-3400 and Breckenridge is at (520) 577-7400.

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