Carpenter Eddie Dowd of Park Hills, Missouri, nails a truss Monday at the future site of Liberty Apartments in the 1100 block of Walnut Street in Cape Girardeau. Double Diamond Construction & Development of Crystal City, Missouri, is the general contractor for the project.<\/p>\n
BEN MATTHEWS<\/p>\n
Despite an unusually rainy spring and summer, developers of a low-income housing project in Cape Girardeau say construction is on track for the projects on-time completion in the spring.<\/p>\n
Liberty Apartments, an eight-building, 40-unit apartment complex in south Cape Girardeau, is slated to open in April.<\/p>\n
Groundbreaking for the $4.5 million project took place six months ago.<\/p>\n
For a while, we thought wed have to push the opening back to June, but the contractor has been able to catch up, so were still looking at a completion date sometime in April, depending on winter weather, said Melissa Stickel, executive director of the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri.<\/p>\n
The Community Partnership, formerly known as Community Caring Council, is developing the project along with Chad Hartle of RCH Development and Cape Area Community Housing Development Corp.<\/p>\n
RCH Development of Jackson will manage the apartment complex and manages similar apartment developments in several other communities.<\/p>\n
Double Diamond Construction & Development of Crystal City, Missouri, is the projects general contractor.<\/p>\n
Carpenter Beau Missey of Potosi, Missouri, center right, nails sheetrock to a truss Monday at the future site of Liberty Apartments in Cape Girardeau.<\/p>\n
BEN MATTHEWS<\/p>\n
Stickel said her office has received a lot of calls from people interested in renting an apartment at the complex, but it will be a few months before housing applications will be accepted.<\/p>\n
We will likely start looking for a property manager early in the year and will probably begin taking applications soon after that, she said.<\/p>\n
The complex, in the 1100 block of Walnut Street east of West End Boulevard, consists of seven one-story brick apartment buildings and a community center. Each 865-square-foot apartment will include living, dining and kitchen areas, two bedrooms, a bathroom and laundry facilities. The apartments are expected to rent for around $475 or $500 per month, Stickel said. Some of the units will be ADA accessible.<\/p>\n
According to the projects plans, the community center will feature an open area for large gatherings as well as a learning center and an exercise area.<\/p>\n
The Missouri Housing Development Commission, the Raymond James Tax Credit Fund and Banterra Bank are providing financing for the project.<\/p>\n
Carpenter Jason Inman of Festus, Missouri, left, marks a measurement on a truss Monday at the future site of Liberty Apartments in Cape Girardeau.<\/p>\n
BEN MATTHEWS<\/p>\n
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