The income-qualified Quail Cove units will be limited to individuals 55 years and older. Miller also thanked representatives from Keller Real Estate for their assistance in the sale of the land to HOI, as well as Kansas Housing Resources Corporation for their financial support, as well as project developer Mesner Development. The city also enlisted KAW Valley Engineering of Salina to develop a water drainage plan to help address potential flooding concerns in the neighborhood. The PUD rezoning will allow for the homes to be built closer together and for smaller lots, which was necessary to make the project possible. In February, the Great Bend City Council, at the recommendation of the Planning Commission, approved the rezoning of the land where the development will sit from multi-family residential to Planned Unit Development (PUD) at the request of HOI. Miller said she was grateful for the efforts of Francis and other Great Bend city officials in addressing rezoning efforts, as well as the development of a maintenance plan to address drainage concerns from neighborhood residents. “Some of those houses that they’re currently in become available for young professionals and those looking for their first-time home purchases.” “(The project) allows people to step into maintenance-free housing, which then has a ripple effect,” he said. Many of those partners were on hand to help HOI break ground on the senior housing development Wednesday afternoon.Īmong those in attendance was Great Bend City Administrator Kendal Francis, who said the city is proud to be able to partner with HOI on a project he sees as meeting a pressing need in the city with the current housing shortage. Miller said she is grateful for the tireless work of her staff, and that of many community partners who helped see this project through. “I’m so excited I was able to be a part of the organization, from the time that we started this, being able to see it come from just a hope to ‘we’re not sure if we can do this,’ to ‘we can do this’, and here we are now we are doing it,” she said. Miller, who has been with the organization for nearly seven years, said she’s proud to see the project that has been in the works for nearly a year and a half come to fruition.

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