NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council approved allocations of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for housing related projects at their meeting on Tuesday.
"Of that money, $591,281.54 was allocated to housing NOFA projects," said Finance Director Angela Richard. "The Housing Commission is going to get their own pot of money, which I believe is around $300,000. I don't have that exact figure with me, but what we're talking about today is the city portion for the housing NOFA projects."
Three of the six projects that applied will get a portion of the funds.
"The applications were Levare Properties, this was the Davenports for the Leon," Richard said. "Their application was for a chiller to chill the 33 apartments that are in that building. Twenty of the 33 have been renovated. This $200,000 would not pay for the entire amount of the chiller. They had invested over $750,000 on this project and would be putting in additional money for the chiller. This was recommended that it be fully funded by the committee that was formed. The second application was the Landmark. As you may know, there's a project to redo the Landmark, bring it back to life. As part of that, I believe there will be 44 apartments. This would be a small contribution towards what the entire project would be. The next project was New Beginnings. New Beginnings would like to create small homes. The committee that reviewed this likes the idea that this could be a pilot project to test out the idea of small homes on lots, to see if this is something we can duplicate throughout the city and on infill properties."
The New Beginnings project will be on a lot just off of Main not far from the Eagle Media studios and will initially have two small homes on it, but be zoned and subdivided for up to three homes on that lot.
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