The Tacoma Housing Authority took a major step this week in advancing the rebirth of the former Salishan public housing project on Tacoma’s Eastside as a major mixed-use housing development.
The authority sold 143 lots in Area Three of the former World War II housing development to the nation’s largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton. Horton is expected to begin building single-family homes on the lots this summer.
Those homes, most of them with three or four bedrooms, are likely to be priced at market rates between $180,000 and $250,000, said Michael Mirra, the housing authority’s executive director. A few with views …