Africatown Plaza affordable housing opens in Seattles Central District [Video]

SEATTLE – If you drive through Seattle’s Central District, you might pass by the Africatown Plaza building. It’s a nod to culture and history and building up a community in more ways than one.

“It’s a start, we still have a lot of work to do, but this is an important milestone for the community and the city,” Rico Quirindongo, City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development Director said.

Africatown Plaza consists of 126 affordable apartments in Seattle’s Central District neighborhood. It is affordable housing for families and individuals earning up to 60% of the area median income, but the building is also a symbol of community empowerment.

“[This is] Proof that we can go from losing ground to holding ground, to breaking ground to gaining ground and knowing that we still have a lot of ground to cover to get us back to where we were and beyond,” K. Wyking Garrett, …