The Rhode Island Housing Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved a financing package for the phased $12.3-million rehabilitation of the Prospect Heights housing development at 560 Prospect Street in Pawtucket.
Built by the Pawtucket Housing Authority between 1941 and 1942, the 292-unit complex “is significant as Pawtucket’s first and only New Deal-era, federally funded public housing project,” according to a Rhode Island Housing staff report. “It comprises 36 brick and concrete block buildings set on a 21-acre lot at the intersection of Prospect Street and Beverage Hill Avenue in Pawtucket.”