Cypress Park Project in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Located in Baton Rouge, Cypress Park is a New Urbanist infill community of 13 Lowe’s Katrina Cottages affordable to members of the workforce. The Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund recognized Cypress Park as the first development in the nation to utilize New Markets Tax Credits to create a 100% “for-sale” housing community.

    Program Characteristics

  • Five unique floor plans that can be customized to reflect local vernacular architecture

  • Private-sector development (served as the “pilot to the FEMA pilot program”)

  • Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood

  • 13 single-family, for-sale homes

  • Wood frames

  • Pier and beam foundations

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