PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — A new 206-unit affordable housing apartment complex is opening in the Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood. Low-income Portlanders will start moving into the Hazel Ying Lee apartments in mid-July.

“It’s really going to be just a true community of folk of all ages, varying backgrounds or in various stages of their housing journey,” Home Forward CEO Ivory Matthews said. “I consider this a model project for what these partnerships can mean and have meant for our community.”

Finishing touches were still being put on hallways as of late June, but the property management company Key Property Services has begun processing applications. The first group of tenants are expected to move in mid-July. Matthews said they expect the building to be fully occupied by the end of the year.

Nestled between Hopworks Brewery and a Motel 6, the H-shaped apartment building at 3000 S.E. Powell Blvd. is on the site of a former strip club.

The old building was demolished in 2018 after the City of Portland announced plans to develop affordable housing on the site. Six years later, the Hazel Ying Lee Apartments were completed for $87 million. The voter-approved Portland Housing Bond provided $33 million.