Once only a vision, the Bayview Foundation's $58 million redevelopment on the "The Triangle" Downtown is rising, embraced as a new home for its diverse, low-income residents and as a head-turning model for Madison.

A year ago, Bayview moved some of its residents from its 102 obsolete townhouses to an eye-catching, orangey-red, four-story building with 48 units and top floor community room at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Regent Street.

Now, the nonprofit foundation is completing an 11,500-square-foot community center — the heartbeat of Bayview — that will more than double the size of the existing worn one and open in January. There are also a 25-unit apartment building and six- and seven-unit townhouses in a bold array of colors, with residents moving in this month.

On a crisp late November day, sunlight streams through the windows in Mai Kommavang’s spacious new apartment that’s part of the first phase of a $54 million redevelopment of a diverse, international, low-income community Downtown.

Kommavang was among the first to move from one of the Bayview Foundation’s 102 now-obsolete townhouses built in 1971 to an unmistakable, orangey-red, four-story building with 48 units and top-floor community room at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Regent Street, each unit featuring high ceilings, open floor plans, ample windows, new appliances and more.

Madison and Dane County will get nearly $21 million to invest in local initiatives to boost disadvantaged communities, including the final capital funding piece for the long-sought Madison Public Market on the East Side, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday.

The funding is part of Evers' program that uses federal COVID-19 relief funds.

The city is getting $6 million, including $2 million for the Bayview Foundation's $52 million redevelopment of its diverse, international, low-income community at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Regent Street Downtown, and $4 million for the $16.5 million Public Market to be forged from a city-owned building at 200 N. First St.

In less than a year, the Bayview Foundation has exceeded its $4 million capital campaign goal to help fund a $52 million redevelopment of its diverse, international, low-income Downtown community into what many hope will become one of the most desirable places to live in Madison.

Madison is preparing for a major redevelopment of roughly 340 dated and deteriorating housing units for low-income, elderly and disabled residents on a big piece of “the Triangle” Downtown.