JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Wednesday, June 9 at 2pm for the 440 W. Kelly project.
Once a pawn in the squabbling between town and county, the 12-unit workforce housing project is set to go under construction with Roller and Tack Development. During joint meetings on housing, town and county electeds fought bitterly on how to proceed as one government, at one point settling on a ‘trade’ of properties—Rains in the county, and 440 W. Kelly in town—so each could move forward without the other butting in.
The Rains property has been going nowhere fast since being purchased with $1.95M in SPET money in 2007. Neighbors have fought any semblance of affordable housing development there, so much so the county has been actively trying to sell the parcel.
Meanwhile, at 430/440 W. Kelly, town council haggled some over how many units they could fit on the property. They settled at 12—down from an earlier proposal of 18.
The town purchased the land in January 2019 for $1,703, 416, triggering a sell-off in the neighborhood in the months following.
Mayor Morton Levinson and representatives from the builder, Roller and Tack, will be on hand to kick off the project after shovels were stilled by COVID in 2020.
