Construction Begins on Replacement for Windsor Park Community After Original Homes Sank into Ground
LAS VEGAS, NV – After finally securing the vital public funding required to carry out the project, construction officially began this week on a new housing tract that is being developed for the beleaguered residents of Windsor Park, whose original homes have suffered immense structural damage as a result of slowly sinking into the ground for decades.
Workers are currently doing site work at the location of the upcoming 93-lot subdivision, situated west of Martin Luther King Boulevard along Carey Avenue, after the city of Las Vegas granted developer Community Development Programs Center of Nevada – which was awarded a contract for $37 million in 2024 to build the new subdivision – a grading permit on September 15.
Windsor Park was historically home to a predominantly Black community. The neighborhood originally featured 241 homes built in the 1960s, but only about 90 remain today. Due to inadequate geological studies before construction, natural fault lines and the depletion of groundwater from an underlying aquifer caused the ground to shift, gradually sinking many of the homes.
The consequences to Windsor Park were dire over the years, with walls inside homes cracking, porches collapsing, and sewage pipes shifting and bursting.
The public funding to construct new homes for the remaining Windsor Park residents was originally approved in 2023, but development remained in limbo until only recently due to an alleged unmet deadline that threatened to yank the millions of dollars earmarked for the renewal of the devastated neighborhood off the table. However, Nevada State Senator Dina Neal (D-North Las Vegas) later confirmed that the state had indeed met the deadline, thus, securing the funding and enabling construction to finally proceed.
Funding for the $37 million project is made up of $25 million in federal COVID relief funds, and an additional $12 million from the state of Nevada itself.
This week’s commencement of construction on the Windsor Park project is an especially important milestone to the community’s long-suffering residents, who can finally look forward to moving into their new homes in the near future.
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