Members of the EPD Crime Free Multi-Housing unit will be conducting their first training seminar for Evansville property owners, managers, and maintenance workers. The seminar will be tomorrow, April 23 at 8:00 at the Vectren Building at 211 NW Riverside Dr.

The training will include discussion about the program, lease agreements and eviction procedures, Meth lab recognition, fire safety, gang issues, and crime prevention through environmental design.

Mayor Lloyd Winnecke was on hand Thursday for a ceremonial ribbon cutting celebrating the completion of a new senior living community in downtown Evansville. 

Market Street Living is a product of The Kunkel Group, an Evansville-based development company.

The company tells us they put in $10.2 million in renovations to the space at the corner of Court & Market Streets.  The 100-year-old building was formerly home to a German singing group, Liederkranz Maennerchor, as well as the Knights of Columbus and Republican Headquarters.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded today public housing authorities in Indiana more than $21.5 million that will be used to make major large-scale improvements to their public housing units.  The Housing Authority of the City of Evansville will get $1,136,365 of that money.

The grants are provided through HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which provides annual funding to all public housing authorities to build, repair, renovate and/or modernize the public housing in their communities. This funding can be used to make large-scale improvements such as new roofs and to make energy-efficient upgrades to replace old plumbing and electrical systems.