Valparaiso’s first new housing development of the year was presented at Tuesday’s Site Review Committee, and City Planner Tyler Kent said more plans for different types of developments will come as spring arrives.
Kent said nine housing subdivisions are either approved and ready to be built, or in the approval process.
Besides the housing development to be called Pepper Cove, the meeting also saw plans for a winery, a beauty salon and a real estate school.
Plans for the Pepper Cove call for 33 duplex buildings and 54 single-family homes marketed to empty nesters.
Joe Lenehan, Director of Land Development at Olthof Homes, said his company would save as many of the trees as possible on the land southwest of the Vale Park Road and Froberg Road intersection on the city’s west side.
Pepper Cove will have a passive park with places to sit and have three detention ponds. Kent commended the amount of greenspace in the plans.
Olthof plans to connect a concrete path to one in its Mistwood subdivision to the south and east and tie that into the new biking and hiking path that runs from Valparaiso High School to the area, Lenehan said.
Mistwood, has 51 lots left for homes that Olthof will bring plans in for soon, he said.
Also at the meeting:
* LaSalle Realty Group at 840 Lincolnway presented plans for a two-story, 1,600 square foot building that will be located west of their business at the corner of Lincolnway and Roosevelt Road. The bottom will contain a real estate school and the second floor a condominium, and they hope to start construction in six to 10 months, Pete LaSalle said.
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* The city should get its first functioning winery in April at LambStone Cellars, located at 1555 Lincolnway Unit 105, near Four Fathers Brewing LLC on the west end of Lincolnway.
* Clawdia’s Beauty Salon plans to open this month at 253 Washington Street where Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 81 used to be located. Portage residents Dave and Clawdia Murray said they chose Valparaiso because the community seems friendly and growing, especially the business district.
James D. Wolf Jr. is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.