Dirt work started Monday at the future site of a 60-unit apartment complex on about four acres at 28th and McKinley streets.
The two 30-unit, market-rate multi-family residential units are the first elements of an anticipated planned unit development on the 11.78-acre parcel that might also include duplexes and single-family houses.
David Bentz, vice president of Urbandale-based Bishop Engineering Co., said the housing will include 58 parking stalls and 45 garages, with a large stormwater detention pond on the east side of the ground between the apartments and the residences on 30th Street.
Green Stream Homes of Iowa LLC is developing the property, which was bought from the Herman L. Rowley Memorial Trust in November 2018 by Dallas County land speculator LeMar Koethe for $100,000. The P&Z approved rezoning the land from agricultural to residential in August 2019 and accepted Green Stream’s preliminary site plan in September. The Perry City Council approved the final site plan in October 2019.
More recently, the Perry City Council let a contract for $225,000 in May to Slater-based Absolute Concrete for the construction of the extension of 28th Street northward to McKinley Street. The project involves 2,000 square yards of sub-grade preparation and sub-base, 1,800 square yards of Portland cement concrete, utility adjustments, grading and other associated work and is expected to begin this summer.
