First Montana Villa about ready for public inspection

If you are among the folks who have wondering what the new homes being constructed as part of Green Dig’s Montana Villas project, your chance to see one of the homes is almost here.

An advertisement in this issue of The Express indicates the first home in the planned development will be open for a sneak peak from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept, 16 and from 8:30 to 10:30 on Saturday, Sept. 17.

As the first house is being finished work is underway to extend utilities to the site and improve the street that serves the project.

Ground was broken for the project in May. When complete, the project will have five single family homes known as villas located along the east side of Montana Street and south of Fifteenth Street.

The project is an outgrowth of a Superior 3000 Foundation initiative to stimulate the development of more housing within the community of Superior. Ten investors formed the Superior Housing Group with a plan to either build new or remodel and flip existing housing. Two additional investors have joined in the Montana Meadows project with the goal of building and selling homes.

With City of Superior support tax increment financing is being used for the needed infrastructure improvements. That plan uses the difference between tax collected while the property was being used as a pasture and the higher tax collected after the improvement is completed to repay the cost upgrading the street and utility services the development requires.

Most of the lots are at least 50-feet wide by 120-feet deep. Each house will be set back from the lot line to allow 10 feet between houses. The houses will have two finished bedrooms, two baths and a double garage with an eight-foot high door. The walkout basements will be insulated to an R-22 value. While unfinished, a basement bathroom will be roughed in and the walls will be ready for dry wall. The homes will all feature an open concept with high end, custom built cabinets and quartz counter tops. There will be 1,366 square feet on each level. They will have covered decks and patios on the east.

Materials are being bought locally and local contractors are doing the work.

With the goal of providing additional housing options, the developers plan to sell the houses at cost and reinvest the proceeds in another housing project.

Now is the time for prospective buyers to look over the first house and make suggestions on what they would like in the houses that have not yet been started.