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Good morning, readers.

Is this the time Fayette Place finally gets redeveloped?

I have to admit I was feeling pretty jaded when I wrote that as the headline for Justin Laidlaw’s report last week about plans to turn the former public housing site in Durham’s historic Hayti community into a mixed use development with affordable housing. 

After all, the 20-acre property near the Durham Freeway has been empty—save for the concrete foundations of the now-demolished public housing units—since 2009, despite attempts to turn it into something more beneficial for the surrounding neighborhood and Durham more broadly. 

The Durham City Council OK’d a financing plan last week and, next week, is set to approve affordable housing bond funds for the first phase of what would be called The Villages of Hayti. Developers planned to break ground this year, but tell Justin the government shutdown has pushed back that timeline to 2026. 

Read more about the history of the site and the latest plans for its future below.

—Sarah W.

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