754 housing units for Rhyne Park Estate
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says the Rhyne Park development will increase and expand the range of possibilities for homeownership and create a greater sense of community within the Montego Bay area.
“This is another exercise of hope in real gain and capital appreciation to a number of deserving citizens here in St James,” Bartlett said at the official groundbreaking at the site last Friday.
Rhyne Park sits on the outskirts of Montego Bay in Rose Hall and adjoins communities such as Spot Valley, Cornwall, and Dover. The Rhyne Park development will respond to the housing needs of low- to middle-income earners in St James and persons employed in the attractions and accommodations sectors in Montego Bay.
A mixture of 754 one- to threebedroom townhouses, apartments, and single-family units are being built by the Housing Agency of Jamaica at Rhyne Park Estate in St James. The project will be completed in three years.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that the Government will be able to solve the housing and settlement problems in Jamaica within a decade.
“What this Government has done with its emphasis on housing, with its emphasis on building, with its emphasis on creating sustainable communities that will retain value for the people who invest in them so that they can pass on that value to the next generation is to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty through the development of housing and community,” said Holness.