Site History

The City of Tucson purchased Westmoreland Lots in 1995 and used the then-existing six residential units for public housing until 2005. These units were demolished in 2006. In 2008, the property was conveyed to a non-profit organization for the development of 11 affordable and three market-rate home ownership units; however, that project never came to fruition and the lot has been vacant since. In 2009, Pima County General Obligation Bonds supported the installation of underground utilities.

After an initial RFP process in 2017 which did not yield a viable proposal, Housing & Community Development (HCD) issued a Request for Qualifications in February 2022 to identify a developer to build affordable housing on this site—along with the 1st &11th site—and a development team was selected in May 2022. The team began environmental and site due diligence work and held neighborhood meetings in 2023 and 2024 to refine the design, but withdrew from the project.

Current Project

HCD has since brought on Tynan Group as owner's representative to help advance the project and published a Design-Build Request for Qualifications in April 2026 to identify a design-build team to partner with HCD's nonprofit housing organization, El Pueblo Housing Development (EPHD), in developing the site.