Using low-income housing tax credits from the Internal Revenue Service, the $6.4 million modular senior housing project in Huntington, West Virginia, which when completed before the end of the year will consist of 30 one-bedroom units measuring about 650 sq. ft. and 10 two-bedroom units of about 800 sq. ft each.

Huntington Garden Apartments is comprised of 65 modules, some 60 feet long, built by Nationwide Homes in Martinsville, Virginia, and arrive on site 75 percent complete, as herald-dispatch tells MHProNews. Huntington Housing Authority Executive Director Vickie Lester, noting the seams will be covered when finished, said, “It’s truly an amazing process. By the time the building is complete, no one will even know that the apartment was built by stacked modules.”

She added the modules have been stacked, and only the hallways need to be finished, elevators installed and the exterior needs to be finished.

“It’s much more economical to build this way,” she said. “You can make a better product faster and save about 20 percent of the total development cost.” ##

(Photo credit: herald-dispatch/Lori Wolfe–modular Huntington Garden Apartments in Huntington, W. VA.)

Article submitted by Matthew J Silver and posted to Daily Business News-MHProNews.