Norristown Housing Project Wins Affordability Award

Norristown’s Arbor Mews, a new housing community, was honored with an affordable housing award by the Home Builders Association on April 16.

The Mews received the Synergy Award for Best Affordable Housing.

The award is given by the Home Builders Associations of four suburban Philadelphia counties.

Arbor Mews, owned by Progressive Housing, touts their mission as “revitalizing older, close in neighborhoods in the suburbs of Philadelphia which are ripe for redevelopment by creating homeownership in creatively designed new residential communities.”

Many of DeKalb Street’s once glorious homes are on the verge of decay, and the project hopes to save the