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Church, developer break ground on $42M affordable housing project

The 140-unit complex coming to a church property in Mango will be for seniors 62 and older who qualify.

By Louis Llovio
| 4:00 p.m. December 20, 2023
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Shawn Wilson, president and CEO of Blue Sky Communities, and Rev. Edison Bernavas, the pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

Construction has officially begun on a $42 million affordable housing project in Hillsborough County being built by a local developer and a local Catholic church.

The project is called Casa Di Francesco and is being built on a 20-acre piece property belonging to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on State Road 579 in Mango, about 1.5 miles south of Interstate 4. Blue Sky Communities from St. Petersburg is the developer.

A ceremonial groundbreaking was held on the property Tuesday.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.