COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council will be asked on Monday might to enter into a purchase agreement for the first phase of the Western Meadows Subdivision project in the area of Western Avenue and State Street.
The Council is being requested by city staff to award five lots to Allen Edwin Homes of Portage and five lots to Alliance Home Builders of Coldwater in the amount of $20,000 per lot.
The City Council approved a bid of just over $492,000 from Parrish Excavating of Quincy last May for the construction of the first phase of the development.
The City bought about 14 1/2 acres on Western Avenue in October 2016 from Robert Rumsey for $95,819 with plans to use the land for future housing development.
The ten vacant lots being developed will be in the first of the three phases. The development will eventually have 30 to 35 condo units.
City Manager Keith Baker says the proposals from Allen Edwin Homes and Alliance Homes Builders meet the minimum requirements in the Request for Proposals that were sent out by the city.
The City Council has determined that the property should be made available for single family residential development which according to Baker would be consistent with the city’s master plan and in the public interest.
Must we develop every piece of land in Southern Michigan? Our once little city of Coldwater is being surrounded by inept solar farms as far as the eye can see and battery plants laying waste to family owned farms. Condos for who? All of these foreigners that Clemens and Mastronardi Produce are bringing in for cheap labor? We already have Condos on the north east side of the city and storage units everywhere. Better hire more police as well because big cities have big city problems. We can also change the city’s name to Hotwater.