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Stallion Park townhomes to be complete in March
By Cayla Vidmar
Two-story townhomes with one-car garages, three bedrooms, two and half baths and great views from the master bedroom are coming online for the valley’s affordable housing market in March.
Gunnison County manager Matthew Birnie shared details of the Stallion Park project located in the Buckhorn subdivision with the Board of County Commissioners last week, and said of the project “The units are cool. They’re going to be neat.”
The Stallion Park townhouse-style buildings will consist of eight deed-restricted, 1,500-square-foot for-sale units, and will cost income-qualified applicants $310,000. “Stallion Park is plugging away. We’ve got one unit trimmed out, and we’re expecting to have all those done by the end of March,” said Birnie.
The units are not for sale yet, but Birnie said some public employers have expressed interest, including the Gunnison Valley Hospital and the Gunnison Watershed School District. “We will give them an opportunity, and then whatever we have left we’ll put into an affordable housing lottery,” Birnie concluded, which Jennifer Kermode, executive director of Gunnison Valley Regional Housing Authority, anticipates they will manage.
County commission chairperson Jonathan Houck said, “It’s important to have these projects moving forward at different stages,” regarding the various affordable housing projects in the works throughout the valley.
Of those various projects, Kermode writes that the county has received multiple proposals for the Rock Creek/Lot 22 project in Gunnison, the city has received several proposals for the Lazy K project, and the Housing Authority is working with a developer for the GardenWalk rental complex in Gunnison, in the entitlement phase.
The GardenWalk will be similar to the Anthracite Place in Crested Butte, in that it is a Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) complex.
