Celebrating the Completion of Mercy Park – Mercy Housing Southeast’s Newest Affordable Housing Community

April 11, 2018 | Chamblee, GA

Mercy Park Ribbon Cutting | April 2018

Last year, LDG Consulting was selected as the Owner’s Representative during the construction phase of the Senior Residences at Mercy Park – a 79-unit affordable housing development located in Chamblee, Georgia. It’s been an excellent journey that LDG Consulting has thoroughly enjoyed performing our part in. If you remember, Mercy Housing Southeast loved LDG’s work so much that they asked us to increase our scope of work for this project as well. We’re pleased to announce today that the project was successfully completed and celebrated with a ribbon cutting with representatives from various partners.

Mercy Park ribbon cutting in Chamblee, GA.

Photo Credit: Mercy Housing Southeast

This project is an impressive partnership of community commitment and love between Mercy Care and Mercy Housing Southeast – one of the largest affordable housing organizations in the US founded in the 80s by Sisters of Mercy and located in Denver, CO. Mercy Care will ultimately provide a LEED SILVER health care facility right next door to this senior housing project. Situated on a 1.6-acre site in northeast Greater Atlanta, this four-story multi-family development will ensure that those 62 and older who are of low-income. Many units are also reserved for veterans. This development ensures that its senior residents will have an outstanding place to live with the best of medicinal care at their fingertips.

“This was the first time that Mercy Care and Mercy Housing Southeast have collaborated together,” notes Alrich. “Although collaboration efforts were discussed in the past, this was the first opportunity they actually had to do it. Because of the success of this project, people are really taking notice of this collaboration and recognizing its brilliance. These organizations brought affordable housing and healthcare together on the same campus. You can walk across the driveway to one of the best healthcare facilities in the Southeast. There’s a demonstration kitchen inside where they can come over and show the residents healthy cooking activities. It’s amazing. You just don’t get any better than that.”

Mercy Park is a new 79-unit affordable housing unit serving seniors and veterans age 62 and older.

Alrich Lynch, Partner and Senior Managing Director of LDG Consulting, at the Mercy Park ribbon cutting with Ronit Hoffer of Mercy Housing Southeast.

As the Owner’s Representative for the construction of Mercy Park, LDG Consulting served as an extension of the Mercy Housing Southeast’s staff, providing critical guidance throughout the lifecycle of the project and protecting their interests at all times. “We’ve been working together since 2011,” says Alrich. The Mercy Park project is LDG’s eighth project with Mercy Housing Southeast. LDG served on their behalf for the Savannah Gardens project as well. “Relationships are everything to us. Once we have a solid relationship established, we know we have a Client for life.”

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Location: 5134 Peachtree Rd., Chamblee, GA. County: DeKalb.
Units: 57 one-bedroom units, 22 two-bedroom units
Design: Masonry, fiber cement siding, modern window lines
Public Transit: less than 2 blocks from the Chamblee MARTA Station
Medical Care: Development is adjacent to Mercy Care-Chamblee (40,000+ sf LEED SILVER health care facility providing primary care)
LEED GOLD: This project incorporates many environmentally friendly features.
Amenities: 4,000 sq ft of amenity space: welcoming sitting rooms, generous porches and activity areas, a gym, computer center, outdoor seating areas, gathering rooms, rooftop terrace and access to Mercy Care clinic and educational offerings.

A project of this magnitude is no small feat. What makes it all worth it: to know that the seniors who live here will get the best of care and quality life surroundings that they deserve.

ARCHITECT: Smith Dalia
CONTRACTOR: McShane Construction Company

SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT: The Dragon Group

PRESS:

Green, Joshua. “In Chamblee, 79-unit affordable housing venture eyes January completion.” Atlanta Curbed [Atlanta, GA] 6 March 2017.
Nelson, Andrew. “Mercy Care Chamblee clinic to open April 18.” The Georgia Bulletin [Atlanta, GA] 6 April 2017.
Stribling, Dees. “Mercy Housing Starts Work on Atlanta-Area Senior Housing.” Multi-Housing News [Chamblee, GA] 8 March 2017.
“Mercy Housing to Open 79-Unit Affordable Community Near Atlanta.” Senior Housing Business. 6 April 2018.

ABOUT MERCY HOUSING SOUTHEAST: Mercy Housing Southeast (MHSE) is the youngest regional office of Mercy Housing Inc., the nation’s largest, non-profit affordable housing organization. It creates stable, vibrant and healthy communities by developing, financing and operating affordable, program-enriched housing for families, seniors and people with special needs who lack the economic resources to access quality, safe housing opportunities. Headquartered in Atlanta, MHSE serves communities in Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. It has developed or preserved 44 projects delivering more than 3,900 affordable rental homes for over 8,000 people since 1996. More than two-thirds of its portfolio is in Georgia, with 1,254 homes in metro Atlanta.

ABOUT MERCY CARE: Mercy Care has been a healing presence among Atlanta’s homeless and uninsured since the 1980s. As coverage and access to care issues persist, a growing number of families and individuals rely on Mercy Care to meet their need for affordable healthcare. Their network of fixed and mobile clinics provide primary care, behavioral health, dental and vision services as well as an array of critical wrap around services and case management. In 2016, Mercy Care provided services to over 12,000 patients, eighty-eight percent of whom were uninsured.

ABOUT LDG CONSULTING: LDG Consulting is a boutique advisory and consulting firm. LDG advises visionary developers and owners on how best to realize their commercial real estate goals and profitably execute their vision.