240 APARTMENTS PLANNED
Five buildings would go up on 7.56-acre field off Australian.
A lakefront field off Australian Avenue is seeking a new life as an apartment complex.
Miami- ba s e d AHS Devel - opment Group LLC has won approvals to build 240 apartments in three six-story buildings and two, three-story buildings just north of 2101 N. Australian Ave.
Plans for the 7.56-acre site on Lake Mangonia also call for a clubhouse, barbecue area, pool, tot lot and apartments with contemporary interiors. Plans call for steel-faced appliances, granite counter tops, washer and dryers and sliding glass balcony doors and windows.
AHS told the city it’s targeting families earning between $45,000 and $90,000.
According to county property records, the site is owned by Redemptive Life Fellowship Inc., which sold the 8.25-acre site just to the south in 2015 to a charter school company, Building Hope Australian, for $3.88 million.
Redemptive was at the center of a dispute between West Palm Beach and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was settled. The city had hired Redemptive Life to build houses from 2005 to 2013 as part of a major effort to revitalize Coleman Park, one of West Palm’s most downtrodden neighborhoods. HUD con- tended that poor record keeping hampered efforts to account for federal grants spent on the project.
Redemptive denied intentional wrongdoing, saying it might have made minor mistakes.