Case Study
Bus Barns, Burlington, Vermont
This was the site of trolley and bus storage and maintenance since 1870. The property is historic, but also suffered from environmental contamination. This property required a complex web of funding from tax incentives, historic rehabilitation incentives, affordable housing grants and loans and a capital fund drive to build the Good News Garage, a non‐profit that repairs donated cars for low‐income people. It was a board member of CHT who launched Good News Garage and he has been all over the country helping people to replicate it.
Uses: 25 affordable apartments; the Good News Garage; neighborhood commercial spaces
Total Development Cost: $5,713,000










