TUCSON MAYOR REGINA ROMERO CELEBRATES AMAZON FLATS GROUNDBREAKING
Embargoed Media Advisory
What: Amazon Flats Groundbreaking
When: Friday, April 17, 2026, 10:30 AM
Where: 1135 W Miracle Mile
Join Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, El Pueblo Housing Development, and Gorman & Company to celebrate the groundbreaking of Amazon Flats, a 59-unit affordable housing community featuring one-bedroom homes that will expand access to quality housing in Tucson. This milestone marks another important step in investing in the Miracle Mile corridor, celebrated alongside City of Tucson partners, community leaders, and neighbors.
Amazon Flats is the second project on the Miracle Mile site. The first project was the transformation of the Amazon Motel into a 30-unit permanent supportive housing which opened in September 2025. Located adjacent to the former Amazon Motel, Amazon Flats will be a newly constructed building that continues the site’s redevelopment.
The 59 units will serve households earning up to 50% AMI and are expected to be completed in the summer of 2027.
HCD requests that no news stories be broadcast or published before the event. This is a closed event for invited guests and media only.
Amazon Flats is phase III of the HUD Choice Neighborhood Implementation Housing Strategy in the Thrive in the 05 executed by the City of Tucson’s Housing and Community Development Department (HCD). In 2023, HCD received a $50 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The eight-year grant is centered around people, housing, and neighborhoods in the Thrive in the 05, a neighborhood reinvestment initiative which began in 2018.
Media is invited to attend and interview Mayor Romero and HCD director Ann Chanecka regarding Amazon Flats and the progress being made by the City of Tucson’s affordable housing program. For more detailed background information see Housing Affordable Strategy for Tucson 10-point plan.
Parking on site is unavailable. Parking will be available across Miracle Mile at Pima County’s Northwest Service Center.
Amazon Flats is being developed by the City of Tucson’s non-profit development arm, El Pueblo Housing Development, and co-developer Gorman & Company.
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