Applicants would need to fall below a certain income cap to move into the complex, which would include one- and two-bedroom and efficiency rental homes for adults 55 and older and an on-site community center. <\/p>\n
“We envision creating a campus for independent seniors,” said the firm’s vice president of development, David Young. <\/p>\n
The firm was drawn to Mokena because the village doesn’t have any other housing targeted at low-income residents, Young said, and also because Mokena has been actively looking to bring senior housing to town. <\/p>\n
“It seemed like a good fit,” Young said. <\/p>\n
Mokena has a list of nine potential sites in mind for senior housing, which includes the 3.8-acre property the Cleveland firm has chosen for its development. <\/p>\n
“It’s really a nice parcel,” Zordan said. “The downtown area, Berkot’s grocery and Walgreens are all just a short walk away.” <\/p>\n
While board members appeared receptive to the proposal during a meeting last week, both board members and residents have raised concerns about increasing the buffer between the development and two neighboring subdivisions, Zordan said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Mokena officials are eyeing a proposal that would bring the first affordable senior housing development to the village. The Partnership for Income Restricted Housing Leadership, a Cleveland-based developer of affordable housing, is pitching a senior housing project for a site on LaPorte Road just west of Wolf Road, village director of economic and community development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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