MIAMI — Coastal Construction Group, a Miami-based general contractor, has launched an affordable housing division that will focus on workforce, affordable and seniors affordable development projects in South Florida. Hernan Acurio was hired to lead the division. Coastal Construction’s past affordable-housing projects include Poinciana Village in Key West, Florida, and Oasis and Shepherd’s Court in Miami. The firm currently is building Sawyer’s Walk in Miami for The Swerdlow Group. Sawyer’s Walk is an 18-story mixed-use project with 578 rent-restricted studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments reserved for lower-income seniors.

Coastal Construction has formed a division focused on expanding the Miami-based general contractor’s South Florida affordable housing business. Coastal is currently building Sawyer’s Walk, a 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood that will include 250,000 square feet of retail space below 578 apartments designated for lower-income seniors.