Seventy-five new apartments for seniors have opened their doors in St. Petersburg, with residents moving into Burlington Post II over the past month after roughly two years of construction. The five-story building sits beside Burlington Post I, which began welcoming residents in 2018, and rounds out a growing stretch of affordable senior housing along Burlington Avenue.
Funding for the project came from a stack of public and private sources. Pinellas County provided $3.75 million, according to St. Pete Catalyst, which the station’s earlier report broke down as $3.5 million in Emergency Rental Assistance funds and $208,023 in Housing Trust funds. The Housing Finance Authority of Pinellas County issued $16 million in tax-exempt housing revenue bonds, the Catalyst’s report noted, while the county’s own Facebook post credited the Florida Housing Finance Corporation and the St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Agency as additional partners that worked to realize the project.