RAYMONDVILLE — There is a new address in town.
At 380 FM 3168, Las Casitas Los Olmos, an 80-unit apartment development aimed at low-income residents, will help fill Raymondville’s housing shortage.
Thursday, the developer Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, in a partnership with Capital One, Hudson Housing Capital and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The city’s first apartment development in more than 10 years will give many Rio Grande Valley residents who work here the choice to move into town.
Las Casitas Los Olmos “provides an economic boost to the city while making affordable housing available to our residents,” Rina Castillo, the city’s economic development director, said yesterday.
In Raymondville, 2,513 households make up part of the city’s 11,173 population, Castillo said.
“We are excited to expand housing, quality of life and economic development for the citizens of Raymondville,” she said.
Across 8.7 acres, a $12 million development features detached one- and two-story “cottages.”
The cozy cottages open up to front porches and yards along tree-lined walkways.
“It is more of a community that contributes to the feeling of home,” Nick Mitchell-Bennett, executive director of the Community Development Corporation, said in a statement.
“We are excited to showcase Casitas Los Olmos’ unique design that exceeds the needs of its residents while not imposing on its natural environment.”
A walking trail winds along the development featuring a park and playground near a barbecue pavilion.
The development was modeled after La Hacienda Casitas, a $7.9 million 56-unit development off Business 77 in Harlingen, winner of a Texas Society of Architects award in 2014 for its design featuring a bios Wales drainage system.
