AHC Greater Baltimore News
Energy Efficiency Education Program is Underway at Barclay Greenmount Apartments
Baltimore, Md. (January 12, 2012)---An energy efficiency education program for residents of Barclay Greenmount Apartments is being conducted this week by a partnership of the City of Baltimore's Green and Healthy Home initiative’s AmeriCorps volunteers. Barclay Greenmount, with a total of 139 apartments, is owned by AHC Greater Baltimore, a private developer of affordable housing communities in the greater Baltimore region.
“The residents are receiving tips on how best to use their new programmable thermostats, recently installed as part of the city's Weatherization Plus program. The onsite meetings with individuals also includes sharing other ideas to reduce their energy use towards the goal of lowering energy costs that we all know can be expensive,” said Allison Pendell Jones, assistant director of resident services.
About AHC Greater Baltimore
AHC Greater Baltimore was founded in 2004 and has developed six properties with more than 1,000 affordable apartments, including Barclay Greenmount, Greenspring Overlook, Kirkwood House, Lansdowne Apartments, MonteVerde, and Union Rowe. AHC Greater Baltimore is renovating Union Rowe, 72 one to three-bedroom apartments on West Fayette Street and is on the development team for mixed-income, rental and ownership units in O'Donnell Heights. AHC Greater Baltimore is part of AHC Inc., headquartered in Arlington, Va., a 35-year-old private, not-for-profit developer of affordable housing in the mid-Atlantic region providing quality homes for low- and moderate-income families. For more information, visit www.ahc-gb.org.