In July 2021, HACA partnered with the City of Annapolis to submit a Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant.

HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods program leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood, including vacant property, housing, businesses, services, and schools.

HACA has selected Genesis Companies, Monadnock Development and NFP to be the developer of Harbour House/Eastport site (HHET) under the Choice Neighborhood Initiatives program (CNI). The CNI project includes two city-owned parcels on 932 and 935 Spa Road (Public Works Property) in Annapolis as well to provide density of at least 722 units. Based on the current zoning, the Harbour House/Eastport site could be redeveloped into 722 units, with the possibility of additional units or commercial use built on the Spa Road site. The City of Annapolis is working with Resident Authority to remediate environmental issues on the Spa Road site. The entire site will be demolished and will be redeveloped. Currently, the site has 357 public housing units. The residents will have a right to return once the site is redeveloped. HACA and the developer executed the MOU in August 2025.

The redevelopment will be done in multiple phases (Phase I – 188 units; Phase II – 185 units; Phase III – 180 units; and Phase IV – 169 units). The developer is currently working on the Phase I plan and expects to share it with the community for their input. HUD accepted the Transformation Plan in November 2023. However, HACA plans to move ahead with the redevelopment of this project with or without CNI funds.

The Developer shall assist the Authority to develop a high-quality Development Plan, which shall include the determination of the appropriate unit mix for the Project to satisfy the right to return requirements under Sec 18 Demo/Dispo RAD. The project site, once developed, is expected to include a mixed income redevelopment incorporating affordable units, market rate units, affordable homeownership and/or market rate homeownership, park space, swimming pool, commercial space for general, artisanal and/or boutique retail, and a grocery store, to the extent the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis and Developer determine such development plan to be feasible.

To date, HACA has received $400,000 from HUD as CNI Planning Grant. The monies were used to complete Phase 1 - Assessment of the Eastport Terrace-Harbour House: Assessment has included conducting resident surveys; reviewing existing plans; demographic and other data collection; stakeholder interviews; inventorying of open spaces, transportation, service providers, businesses, housing, etc.; real estate market studies; Maryland Historical Trust review; and Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment.



As the redevelopment process moves forward, HACA, along with the City of Annapolis, has applied for the CNI Implementation Grant. In addition, the city has allocated $1,000,000 to the Authority for predevelopment activities for the redevelopment of Harbour House/Eastport. Also, the state has matched the city funds with an allocation of $1,000,000 to be disbursed along with the city funds for the pre-development activities.

Phase I of the project is expected to close in Fall 2027/Spring 2028.

HACA and the developer will hold multiple meetings with the community to get their input on the redevelopment as the process moves forward.