The Perry Kiwanis Club welcomed Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson to their Tuesday luncheon meeting at the Hotel Pattee in Perry.
Peterson Perry City Administrator. Sven discussed three new apartment-house construction projects currently in the works for Perry. In the first, called the Hamlin-Bell Apartments, Des Moines-based Newbury Living will build 36-unit senior housing facility at 10th Street and Willis Avenue.
The second apartment project involves Kinosha, Wis.-based Bear Development’ plans for a 38-unit low-income apartment complex at W. Third Street and Willis Avenue.
In the third project, Urbandale-based Capax Infiniti Housing is working on plans for a six-unit complex, the Chateau Casalina, at Eighth and Bateman streets.
Peterson was welcomed to the Kiwanis Club meeting by 15-year member Bob Nevitt of Perry.
I just hate to be the one who sounds critical about this. I would love to be real excited about these new housing projects in my community. We really need something to help get the community back on the road to a better future. But with all the surplus housing on the market in this town right now, and with the price of homes being stagnant or decreasing for six years, I’m thinking that these projects are ill timed and will further depress home prices in town. What is the council thinking? Get 500 new jobs in town and we will need housing projects like this!