Affordable housing is a rising concern in the Triangle as the market booms, and the town of Chapel Hill worked with a nonprofit to create a new option in the Greenfield Place Apartments. The town of Chapel Hill worked with DHIC to pursue two Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments on land the town owned on Legion Road.

Beauna Clarke lives in Greenfield Place, a rent controlled complex in Chapel Hill. On one of the first crisp fall days of the year, she showed off the two-bedroom apartment. "Okay, so you enter into the dining area, kitchen area," she said. She described the amenities while the dishwasher hummed and dryer rumbled. A mountain bike stood beside her couch in the living room.

CHAPEL HILL Getting the call about an apartment at Greenfield Place on Legion Road, where his mother could be closer to her doctor, was a blessing, BJ Johnson said. The 80-unit complex opened in January, with more than 70 people who did not get in on a waiting list. The Johnsons were on the list, too, until someone else dropped out.

Construction of an apartment project on Independence Boulevard near Echo Farms is expected to begin soon after the development company worked out a sewer capacity solution for the site. Woodfield Investments bought the wooded property at 3938 and 3970 Independence Boulevard for nearly $1.7 million from Wilson and Angie Ki, according to a July 13 deed recorded in New Hanover County.

Non-profit community developer DHIC, Inc. invites the community to a celebration of Greenfield Place, a new 80-unit affordable apartment community, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at 150 Formosa Lane, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517. Greenfield Place is the first phase of a two-phase project. The second phase, Greenfield Commons, is currently under construction and will offer 69 apartments restricted to limited-income seniors.

Grubb Ventures has closed a $67.8 million deal for a 283-unit luxury apartment complex called Sojourn Lake Boone, located just inside the I-440 Beltline at Lake Boone Trail. The buyer is NewTower Trust Company, a Maryland firm that has $7 billion in gross assets under management. The sale included two parcels totaling 33.1 acres, behind Martin Middle School, according to Wake County property records. The price tag works out to $239,576 per unit.

Good Shepherd, in partnership with Lakeside Partners of Wilmington, Inc., is committed to providing the important combination of affordable housing and supportive services that make it possible for even our most fragile neighbors to move from homelessness to housing stability. Lakeside Partners of Wilmington, Inc. is a 501(c)3 subsidiary of Good Shepherd Center, the largest provider of homeless services in the Cape Fear region. SECU Lakeside Reserve is a $5 million affordable housing project conceived more than a decade ago.

Construction has begun on the new five-story, nearly $40 million Sojourn Glenwood Place infill apartment complex at the long-established Glenwood Place business park on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. Site work had started back in July with the clearing of nearly 13 acres of trees, and vertical construction is now underway with an expectation that first tenants will start moving in fall 2017.