Perry’s three-year-old property tax abatement program produced fresh activity this month with more than a dozen new homes planned for construction in the Sunflower Flats housing subdivision in Perry.
“Today we received applications for 16 new home building permits,” Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson told the Perry City Council Monday, “so that would completely build out the Sunflower lots beside the elementary school.”
The Sunflower Flats lots lie along Sunflower Street, northeast of the Perry Elementary School near Eighth and North streets.
Sixteen of the 27 lots in the Sunflower Flats were bought Jan. 8 for $288,000 by WJH LLC, a foreign limited liability corporation chartered in Delaware in 2016 and registered to do business in Iowa in 2018. The manager of the corporation is Wade G. Jurney Jr. of Greensboro, N.C.
Peterson said Wade Jurney Homes is “new to Iowa and the Midwest” and is “one of the largest builders in the nation.”
The Sunflower Flates lots were brought to the Perry market with great fanfare in 2016 by Troy Cannon Clark of the Clark Development Corp. LLC and West Des Moines realtors the VIA Group. The Sunflower deals bloomed immediately ater the Perry City Council’s approval of the urban renewal agreement and property tax abatement program.
“That’s good news,” Perry Mayor John Andorf said of the prospect of new residential building.
“It will be fun to watch that” come spring, Peterson said.
