Planning Commission to consider rehab of trio of affordable housing complexes in Kalispell
Kalispell City Council chambers in City Hall on Wednesday, April 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
The public on Tuesday can weigh in on a proposal to revamp three existing low-income apartment complexes off Two Mile Drive.
The Kalispell Planning Commission will meet at 6 p.m., April 14 in City Hall, 201 First Ave. E.
Kalispell Investment Group, LP, and the affordable housing nonprofit The Beneficial Housing Corporation are looking to tune up three adjacent apartment complexes totaling 116 units. Altogether, the complexes boast 55 one-bedroom, 55 two-bedroom and 6 three-bedroom apartments.
Kalispell Senior, Westwind Village and Two-Mile Vista apartments comprise the trio of buildings that the developers plan to tune up and continue operating as below-market rentals.
The units will be set aside for earners making between 50% and 60% area median income.
Infinity Property Management & Investments, LLC will continue managing the properties, which get subsidies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Section 515 loan program. The developers also applied for funding through the federal 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, according to a report prepared by BJM Law on behalf of the developers.
The developers plan to seek property tax-exempt status through the Montana Department of Revenue, according to the report.
Rehabilitation work is budgeted at $65,000 per unit to address deferred maintenance, accessibility and energy efficiency. Planned upgrades include new roofs, siding and windows, major mechanical upgrades, new appliances and improved lighting.
RESIDENTS CAN also weigh in on a proposal to develop 10 commercial lots along U.S. 93 in South Kalispell.
Todd Gardner is requesting major preliminary plat approval of a commercial subdivision, called the South Town Plaza Subdivision, on 37 acres zoned B-5 (industrial-business).
The area is part of a 95-acre planned unit development approved by Kalispell City Council in September 2024 that will see both commercial and residential development and includes the site of an Amazon distribution warehouse.
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