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Boxcar Apartments

Project Overview of Boxcar Apartments: approximately 14 units, rentals for households at 80% AMI and below. Project location is Anvil Mountain Subdivision. Image of a dirt road next to a red train car with kendall mountain in the background.

Project History
  1. 2022: Colorado Housing and Finance Authority - Small Scale Housing Program Technical Assistance created the Anvil Mountain Subdivision Conceptual Plan. Identified Lots 30 and 1 in Anvil for future apartment complexes. 
  2. 2023: Town of Silverton Awarded U.S. EPA Brownfields Multipurpose Grant: $800,000.
  3. 2024: Town of Silverton awarded DOLA Energy/Mineral Impact Assistance: More Housing Now Grant $79,281 with $8,809 from San Juan County's Lodgers Tax Affordable Housing/Childcare Fund for predevelopment site engineering.
  4.  2024: Boxcar Apartment sites identified as priority for Brownfields Grant: Phase I and II Environmental Assessment & Clean-up. 
  5. 2024 Spring/Summer: Request For Qualifications for Predevelopment Site Engineering released.
  6. 2024 August: Town of Silverton awarded RFQ to SGM Inc. Scope: site grading & drainage plans, utility plans, retaining wall plans, etc....
  7. Current: SGM begins RFQ Boxcar Apartments Predevelopment Engineering - Spring 2025. Ramboll Americas Engineering Solutions, Inc. conducts Phase I and II Environmental Assessment & clean-up. Summer 2024-2025.
  8. Next Steps:
    1. Apply for grant funding for infrastructure installation.
    2. Install infrastructure.
    3. RFP for developer. 
    4. Begin construction. 
    5. Tenant selection & move-in. 

For questions about Brownfields Project, contact Lucy Mulvihill, Community Development Director Town of Silverton. 

Aeiral image of Anvil Mountain Subdivision. Lots 31 and 1 are outlined in yellow demarking the Boxcar Apartment Site. Lots 31 and 1 are located at the Northwest corner of the subdivision. The Anvil Mountain Apartments are located below the site to the south.

Anvil/Boxcar Conceptual Plans

Brownfields Grant Info

Site Engineering - More Housing Now Grant