Fate of Proposed Senior Living Complex Uncertain

At last night’s Plan Commission meeting, Tom Stang, of Edgewood Contractors, returned to discuss conceptual rezoning plans for a proposed senior housing and assisted living complex. The complex is being proposed for an area of land out by the Moose Lodge and the True Value hardware store, near the Big Bend border.

But Stang ran into resistance from the Commission, with a number of commissioners telling him there hasn’t been enough details and information provided about the proposed project as of yet. Furthermore, they contended, the land on which the complex would be built is currently earmarked for conservation in the city’s 2020 Comprehensive Plan. That plan calls for retaining the area’s rural attributes.

And even though the market appears to be coming around once again for this kind of development, a point raised by Stang, the commissioners fired back that the market can easily go soft again at any time.  

The ball is now in the hands of Edgewood Contractors, so to speak. From here, the firm can either revise their conceptual plans in a way that would seek to build some consensus with the Commission, or simply scrap the idea.