The Jacksonville City Council has unanimously approved rezoning needed for Sulzbacher to build a $36 million complex on the city's Northwest side that will provide affordable housing and manufacturing jobs for homeless men.
The homeless prevention nonprofit plans to build Sulzbacher Enterprise Village on 16.8 acres at Interstate 95's Golfair Boulevard exit on Walgreen Road.
The $26 million first phase would be 100 apartment units. The $10 million second phase would provide job training and a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing plant where the men — and some neighborhood residents — would be employed making modular affordable housing.
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