Inter*Im Community Development Association
ICDA Receives City/County
Funding
This
January
ICDA was one of four nonprofit agencies selected to receive
the City of Seattle's prestigious NOFA Awards in this pat funding
round. ICDA's Samaki Commons features 40 apartments, up to 4-bedrooms,
received $1.75 million City funding and $1.4 million from King County.
Other projects receiving funding: Sea Mar Family Housing, sponsored by
Sea Mar; Lake City Court sponsored by Low-Income Housing Institute; and
homebuyer assisatance for a new condo project, sponsored by HomeSight.
See our article on Samaki Commons in "Current Project and Services" for
more information regarding ICDA's Samaki Commons project.
Samaki
Commons Housing Project receives $3.15 million
ICDA received a total of $3.15 million from City of
Seattle and King County for its Samaki Commons family housing project.
Taken from the Laotian word meaning "community", the Samaki housing
project will also have support services for refugees and immigrant
families. The housing project will have 40 apartments
including 4-bedrooms units. The Samaki Commons Project is located next
door to Lao Highland Community Center and ICDA will work with the Lao
Highland Association to conduct outreach to the ethnically diverse
families in Rainier Valley.
ICDA will offer culturally-competent, supportive resident services in a partnership with the International District Housing Alliance, Asian Counseling, Referral Services, Refugee Women Alliance, and Chinese Information Service Center. The total cost for the project is $11.8 million. The project was started about 2 years ago. Construction is slated to begin in 2008. For more information, please contact Inter*Im.
International District's Model Green Street Project
ICDA recently received $50,000 from King County to support the Green Street Project. Funding was also received from the City of Seattle and South Downtown Foundation. The project is designed as an extension of the Danny Woo ID Community Garden and wil create a green strip that extends along Maynard Avenue South. This Green Street will become an activated, safe-gathering place and will integrate public art elements that will help culturally define this area as the Nihonmachi (Japantown) community. The project will also build a hydrology system that moves water from the roof of Nihonmachi Terrace housing to water the plants. Construction will start this Spring. For more information about the project, please contact Inter*Im.
Danny Woo ID Community Garden
Jennifer Brower is back
from her studies in Korea to resume as the Garden Coordinator. Thank
you Matt Trokan for serving as Interim Garden Coordinator; Matt will
continue with the capital improvements planned for the garden.
Inter*Im recently received $125,000 from the
City of Seattle and raised over $17,000 in individual donations for the
Danny Woo Garden "Preservation and Improvement Project". This fund will
be used Phase I capital improvement projects, which include better
access and safety to the garden such as rebuilding walls, maintaining
walking trails, increasing stairwells and better access around the
garden, new lighting, and more garden plots for the elderly low income
gardeners.
Thank you for the donations made to the Bob Santos Legacy Fund that will
also contribute to the preservation and improvement projects. Even in
the cold and rain we are still looking for volunteers and work parties
to help us move forward with our projects. We need general maintenance
of the garden and its structures, and site preparation work. We will
take any skill level. If your company, organization, or school is
looking for projects or community service ideas we have lots of work for
you! Please contact Inter*Im or call (206) 624-1802.
We always welcome donations for the Bob Santos Legacy Fund. You can donate through a link on our website and specify the Danny Woo Garden.
Thank you and Happy New
Year!
Dearborn Street/Goodwill Coalition
A coalition of adjacent neighborhoods has been established to
monitor the proposed Dearborn Street Project and provide a
community-based vision and input into the mega-project located at
Rainier Avenue South/Dearborn Street. The Dearborn Street Project will
be the home for a new Goodwill, feature over 600,000 feet of retail,
2,300 parking stalls, open space and housing over four city blocks. The
community coalition is concerned with impacts and is working with the
City and the project's developer, Dearborn Street Developers LLC, a
venture of Ravenhurst Development Inc., and TRF Pacific LLC., to
negotiate community benefits from the project. For more information
about the Coalition, contact Tom Im of ICDA at tim@interimicda.org,
or Quang Nguyen of Vietnamese American Economic Development Association
at
quang@vaeda.org.
Inter*Im is a 503(c) non-profit organization. Our mission is to support
affordable housing, community and economic development in Seattle's ID/Chinatown
neighborhood and other Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities in the Puget
Sound region. If you would like to contribute to our programs or work as a
volunteer, please call 206-624-1802 or email us at
info@interimicda.org. 
