City to construct new buildings
By Heather Mangold
City
Editor
Construction will begin today at noon for the Wabash
Landing Apartment Homes at the Wabash Landing mixed-use development
on Brown Street.
Sheehan Construction of Indianapolis will build
the apartments along the Wabash River.
Residents of the complex are within walking distance
to campus and have access to entertainment, restaurants and a variety
of shops.
Jimmy Curtis Jr., president of Sheehan Construction,
said that he is very excited about working with the city of West Lafayette.
"They've been fantastic to work with," said Curtis.
Some of the apartments will be ready as early as
mid-July, according to Curtis.
The apartment homes will include 36 one-bedroom,
one-bath apartments and 56 two-bedroom, two-bath apartments. Rent starts
at $795 per month. Each apartment will include one reserved parking
space in the attached garage.
Other additions to the city of West Lafayette were
announced at the Area Plan Commission on Wednesday.
The commission approved plans for a building that
will be constructed on the corner of Andrew Place and State Street.
Thomas Gall requested that the commission rezone
the 0.67 acres at the northeast corner of State Street and Andrew Place
where the new building will reside. The four-story building will consist
of 36 apartments on the top three floors and retail facilities on the
ground floor. The bottom floor will be used for commercial purposes
such as retail, service and government organizations. It will not, however,
allow adult businesses, car sales, drive-thru businesses or bars.
The plans for the building will go before the West
Lafayette City Council at its February meeting. Construction of the
development will begin when the council passes rezoning requests.
Mayor Sonya Margerum said, "It (the new development)
will improve the look of the village and take down some old housing."
A series of three meetings were held by the commission
in which proposals were brought forth by neighborhoods as to how they
wanted their areas rezoned. As a result, the Levee was turned into a
central business district, one apartment was changed to R3 and the New
Chauncey Neighborhood area was rezoned to R1U. The rezoning will not
affect the way that properties will continue to be used.
"This stabilizes neighborhoods and clears up some
uses that had changed since the new unified zoning ordinance was created,"
said Margerum.
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