The long-planned, $27.1 million Windward Commons development is the latest public-private effort to modernize the Bridgeport Housing Authority’s stock of archaic low-income properties. So Marina Village came down and its 782 tenants were relocated. But, Baldwin said, they received tenant protection vouchers — essentially rent subsidies that traveled with them as they were moved into other, scattered rental housing properties not necessarily owned by the authority. The private developer is JHM Group of Stamford which, Baldwin said, will have “day-to-day management of the properties.” And while the authority has invested over $2.7 million in the project, which also received significant state and federal funding, and will continue to own the land, the redevelopment arrangement essentially takes much of Windward Commons off of the cash-strapped authority’s books. Baldwin said the authority’s existing contract with JHM calls for the developer to construct some additional housing, but nothing beyond Windward has been finalized.
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