Real estate developer Ian Cassels of New Zealand intends to build 2,000 two-bedroom modular apartment units for Wellington measuring about 225 square feet each. As director of The Wellington Company, Cassels has already signed a contract to develop land owned by the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust, where a prototype of City Blox has been assembled in Shelly Bay. As stuff.co.nz reports, if this plan gets the go ahead, he hopes to build more modular units in Christchurch where a housing void continues following the Feb. 2011 earthquake that destroyed 10,000 homes, which MHProNews last covered March 5, 2014. ##

(Image credit: stuff.co.nz–artist’s rendering of modular apartments)