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Another new affordable housing community is in the works in Central Oregon. The development will include 60 garden-style apartments and 16 duplexes.

Antler Campus is RootedHomes鈥� and Housing Works鈥� second joint affordable housing project. The first, 鈥�Rooted at Simpson,鈥� is now under construction in Bend.

The new community will be at 1699 W. Antler Ave. in Redmond. The three apartment buildings will have a mix of one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units available for households earning less than 60 percent of area median income. The duplexes, with two or three bedrooms each, will provide ownership opportunities for households earning less than 80 percent of area median income.

The development will include two commercial buildings.

鈥淭he larger one 鈥� on the right if you鈥檙e looking at the site map 鈥� that is going to be Housing Works鈥� and RootedHomes鈥� offices,鈥� RootedHomes Executive Director Jackie Keogh said.

Housing Works is selling its building in downtown Redmond and will use those proceeds to construct the new building, Keogh said. RootedHomes will move most of its offices from Bend to Redmond.

The other stand-alone building is envisioned as a day care facility. The developers recognize the lack of such facilities in Central Oregon and its impact on the entire Redmond community, Keogh said. The goal, she added, is to create a space with a focus on social services. The developers are looking to work with a day care operator on the buildup.

Currently, Housing Works owns the Antler Campus land and RootedHomes is going through the partition process to own its parcel for development of the duplexes, Keogh said.

Ten Over Studio, headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California, with a location in Bend, will be the architect for the duplexes. Housing Works has not decided yet on an architect for the apartments.

The duplexes 鈥渨ill look very similar to the homes we鈥檙e designed on our Redmond campus at 19th,鈥� Keogh said.

Rooted at Redmond, now in the planning stage, will be a 23-home community at 345 N.W. 19th St. Plans call for new construction of duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes with two or three bedrooms each, and preservation of a 100-year-old, four-bedroom farmhouse. Homes will be in a cottage cluster like Rooted at Simpson.

Antler Campus鈥� design will be based on community needs, Keogh said. The design team will readapt the Rooted at Redmond site plans based on stakeholders鈥� feedback, which the team expects to collect early next year.

While the apartments have not been designed yet, they will be garden-style walk-up units, like ones for previous Housing Works projects.

Amenities envisioned for the site include a children鈥檚 play area, a community park, a community garden, ample vehicle parking, bicycle parking, electric vehicle charging, and all native plants. Every duplex homebuyer will receive an electric bike as a second transportation option. All homes will be designed to meet Energy Trust of Oregon鈥檚 net zero requirements.

Before buildings are constructed, a road will be created through the middle of the site.

鈥淲e would be connecting Northwest 17th (Street),鈥� Keogh said. 鈥淏y doing that, you鈥檙e essentially creating more connectivity rather than have folks drive all the way around.鈥�

The estimated total cost of the duplexes is $7 million. The estimated total cost of the apartments isn鈥檛 known yet, but Housing Works Executive Director David Brandt said that if they were built today, based on costs of current projects, it would probably be around $24 million.

RootedHomes and Housing Works will request state funding for construction through Oregon Housing and Community Services鈥� Local Innovation and Fast Track (LIFT) program when it opens early next year.

Bids for general contractors for the duplexes and apartments will go out when the project is further along. The project team hopes to hire a single contractor for these projects.

Construction is likely to begin with the commercial buildings in the first half of 2024. If funding is secured, construction of the duplexes would begin next fall and finish by the end of 2025. Construction of the apartments would start about six to nine months after awards of necessary development subsidies.