AMCAL’s Founder and CEO was inducted into the Affordable Housing Finance Magazine’s Hall of Fame on November 14, 2022, at a special awards ceremony in Chicago. Vaz is the founder and CEO of the AMCAL group of companies, one of the most active affordable housing developers in the West and South. Read the article at this link.
Affordable Housing Finance Magazine published its top 50 affordable housing developers list in May 2021, and AMCAL came in at #6 in the nation having 1,514 construction starts in 2020, and an anticipated 687 completions.
According to AHF, affordable housing developers were able to continue building, despite all the uncertainties and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. AMCAL was one of them. AHF also reported that while posting impressive numbers, developers faced extraordinary challenges during the pandemic, from delays in construction to increased deal scrutiny, from all-time high lumber prices to rent delinquencies across their portfolios. In addition, they were called on to meet the increasing needs of their residents.
AMCAL is proud to have been building affordable housing for more than 40 years, and is still going strong with an impressive pipeline of projects under construction and under development in 2022.
Our Villa Encantada project in San Diego was mentioned in this article about transit-oriented developments.
MTS officials recently authorized negotiations with a development team seeking to build affordable housing on an underutilized trolley station parking lot. If approved, the proposal would more than triple the number of middle-income homes approved in San Diego since 2010.
This comes less than six months after MTS updated its real estate policy to encourage more housing near transit stations—an effort that appears to be showing some results.
The plan for the Palm Avenue station parking lot came from National Core, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, and Malick infill, a for-profit firm specializing in transit-oriented development. The team is proposing 150 homes for low-income households and 100 homes for middle-income households, along with retail and commercial space and parking for trolley passengers.
The MTS executive committee voted March 14 to start negotiations with the development team, after a 30-day window in which staff sought competing proposals but received none. The development team declined an interview request while negotiations are ongoing.
AMCAL CEO Percy Vaz is featured in the current edition of Affordable Housing Finance Magazine in an article titled “Passion for Housing.”
Brick by brick and town to town, the AMCAL group of companies does the hard work of building affordable and market-rate housing throughout California and Texas.
During its 40 years, the firm has developed more than 80 communities with 7,500 units and an equally impressive reputation for creating quality housing for families, seniors, and, more recently, college students.
Not bad for a company that Percival Vaz and his wife, Lux, began in their garage.
Armed with an entrepreneurial spirit, Vaz, the firm’s founder and CEO, emigrated to California from India in the mid-1960s to study electronics, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, with the idea of returning to his home country to open an electronics assembly plant.
This article originally appeared in Affordable Housing Finance Magazine. Read more of the article on that website.
AMTEX Development’s newest community in Fort Worth, Texas, is nearing completion.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions will celebrate its 80th anniversary this year with the grand opening of its newest multi-family affordable property, Alton Park, in northwest Fort Worth.
Alton Park joins four other mixed-income apartment communities opening this year thanks to the housing authority’s aggressive efforts to expand the supply of affordable housing in Fort Worth.
“We are happy to be working with both the city and a few select developers to deliver high-quality, affordable housing options for the residents of our rapidly growing city,” Mary-Margaret Lemons, the housing authority’s president, said in a news release. “Never in our 80 years of history have public/private partnerships been so critical to fulfilling our mission.
This article originally appeared in Fort Worth Business Press. Visit that news site to read more.
AMTEX completed its newest project, Parkdale Villas, in Denison, Texas, and has been featured in the Herald-Democrat newspaper.
Parkdale Villas brings low-income housing to Denison
A new 144 unit apartment facility bringing low income housing to Denison opened earlier in the month.
The apartments utilize a new tax incentive to provide low income housing instead of relying on federal government programs, and according to the developer are already nearly rented out. Darin Hansen, vice president of forward planning and entitlements for Amtex Development, the developer of the property, said he was excited to bring these low-cost apartments to the city of Denison.
A recent article in the Mission Times Courier talked about AMCAL’s soon-to-be completed Villa Encantada—the first transit-oriented affordable housing development in San Diego—and how it is sparking the conversation about whether other transit-oriented housing developments make sense. #transitorienteddevelopment #house #affordablehousing
In unincorporated Florence, AMCAL Multi-Housing Company has proposed redeveloping a County library as part of a mixed-use affordable housing complex.
The project, slated for a one-acre site at 1600-1616 E. Florence Avenue, would create a five-story building featuring 116 units of senior affordable housing, as well as a replacement library at its ground floor.
VTBS Architects is designing the building, which would rise one block west of the Blue Line’s Florence Station.
The $51-million project is seeking approximately $7 million in County funding.
