Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis is embarking on our largest endeavor yet in building our first planned development, Trinity Park. The 38-home community will be located in the Oakhaven Neighborhood on East Oak Side Drive, just south of Memphis International Airport.

Habitat’s development team consisting of Smith-Western Consulting, The Pickering Firm and Looney, Ricks, Kiss Architects, Inc. has designed the community to blend with the existing neighborhood and to include sustainable enhancements such as landscaped green space, tree-lined pedestrian walkways, and a centrally located resource center. Each home will be built to green standards and will meet MGLW’s EcoBUILD requirements, resulting in a 33% energy savings. All homes will be accessible by wheelchair and fully handicap accessible homes will be built for families with demonstrated needs.

Homes will be sold to qualified low-income families who would otherwise have no hope of owning their own homes. Habitat will make no profit on the homes and will charge no interest on the mortgages. Construction costs will be kept to a minimum due to the utilization of volunteer labor. Thereby creating the most economical means to affordable homeownership. Mortgage payments will be used to help build additional homes.

The $3,000,000 project will benefit the Memphis community by means of creating jobs, generating additional real estate tax revenue, additional support of existing retail and service oriented businesses and from the stability Habitat homeowners bring to the neighborhoods in which they live. Every homeowner candidate is thoroughly screened and is required to complete Habitat’s 15-week homebuyer education course which was introduced in 2005. There is a zero percent foreclosure rate among the 64 homeowners who graduated from the course.

We hope that you will join in our efforts to help build a better Memphis, one brick at a time!