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Wednesday, March 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
APARTMENTS: Leasing
activity to begin in
winter 2018
Continued from page 3
1,100-square-foot town-
homes and 48 parking spaces.
The other parcel will have
eight two- and three-bedroom
townhomes and 17 parking
spaces.
There will be a large com-
munity room and manager’s
office in the development.
There will be electric heat in
all units, which will be fur-
nished with stacking washers
and dryers. Half of the one-
bedroom apartments will be
located on the ground floor,
with a couple of fully ADA
compliant units and several
others adaptable to accom-
modate special needs.
Wooden indicated they are
hopeful to have the final clos-
ing on the property by July 1,
2017, and they are ready to
start site work the very next
day. The same architect and
contractor will be doing this
project and a 42-unit project
in La Pine at the same time,
affording economies of scale
and allowing for one loan and
one equity investor for both
projects. Affordable-housing
projects are difficult deals to
put together, so developers
look for every way to reduce
construction costs, according
to Wooden.
Last fall, upholding their
promise to do something
about affordable housing, the
Sisters City Council agreed
to earmark $300,000 in
City funds to help facilitate
the project. The total fund-
ing is coming from a LIFT
fund grant from the State of
Oregon, HousingWorks, City
of Sisters, and equity inves-
tors who buy tax credits.
The project has been
pre-approved by the City’s
Community Development
Department that has laid out
requirements that must be
met. The next phase is up to
the design team and the land-
use team, who will need to
secure all the necessary per-
mits and entitlements before
actual construction begins.
The original idea for the
complex was for all two- and
three-bedroom townhomes
like the current Tamarack
Village apartments. After lis-
tening to the citizens and con-
ducting a market study, plans
were changed to a majority
of one-bedroom units to meet
the housing needs of seniors
and single working people.
The monthly rental is cur-
rently forecast to be $599 for
a one-bedroom, $718 for a
two-bedroom, and $825 for a
three-bedroom unit.
About three months before
completion of the project, or
about midwinter 2018, leas-
ing activity will begin, with
checks on prospective ten-
ants to be sure they meet the
income qualifications.
UBER: Agreement
would include
Sisters among cities
Continued from page 1
modification to explicitly
allow ride-sharing.
Council appears to be
amenable to welcoming
ride-sharing. The timeline
could get Uber in action this
spring.
For sure I’d like to
get t2ings done before
t2e tourist season,
certainly by t2e Rodeo.
— Rick Allen
GRAPHIC PROVIDED
T2e location of 48 affordable apartment units.
“For sure I’d like to get
things done before the tour-
ist season, certainly by the
Rodeo,” Allen said.
The city manager said
that regulations for the ser-
vice would likely be the
same as those adopted by
Redmond and Bend, for
the sake of simplicity and
consistency.
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