Centex expects nine of the townhouses to cost less than the $170,000 figure the Metropolitan Council recently deemed as affordable. The average house on the city's East Side currently sells for about $143,000.
The townhouses are slated to rise on a two-acre site at White Bear and Hoyt Avenues in the city's northeast corner.
Hafner's bowling alley, a popular neighborhood landmark in the 1960s and 1970s, has since changed ownership and become an increasingly frequent target for police calls.City officials hope to obtain the land and start construction by this fall. They hope it will spark the redevelopment of several blocks along the east side of White Bear Avenue where St. Paul borders Maplewood.
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