EAST HELENA — The city of East Helena unanimously approved the Rose Hills mixed-income neighborhood plan, which has been in the works for over seven years.

East Helena Mayor Kelly Harris said, “I think Rose Hills, being affordable housing, really represents East Helena’s past and brings us into the future, having people have opportunities to work.”

This is part of the two-thousand-acre former Asarco smelter site. It is slowly being transformed into something new.

Part of it is now Prickly Pear Park, which opened this past spring, and these 250 acres will be a neighborhood.

“East Helena creates an opportunity for housing and to build housing where it needs to be, which is near towns where the jobs are, food is, and infrastructure is,” Helena Area Habitat for Humanity director Jacob Kunt

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