McCORDSVILLE — A developer plans to bring a 98-home age-targeted community to the town’s north side.
Greenfield-based Bridgenorth Homes wants to develop 24 four-unit homes and one duplex on 22 acres near the southwest corner of Mt. Comfort Road and West County Road 900N in McCordsville.
Brian Tuohy, a lawyer representing the developer, said at a McCordsville Town Council meeting earlier this month that while the homes wouldn’t be limited to residents age 55 and older, they’d be targeted toward that age group.
“These are designed to be maintenance-free homes for the target market,” Tuohy said.
The residences would be about 1,450 square feet to 2,635 square feet, and the community would also include a clubhouse.
Tuohy said the community would be similar to The Preserve at Sugar Creek in New Palestine, a community Bridgenorth Homes also developed, where homes sell for between $250,000 and $450,000.
The site is near where a Leo’s Market & Eatery is going at the southwest corner of Mt. Comfort Road and 900N. Pride Investment Partners opened it’s first Leo’s Market & Eatery at 2212 W. Main St. in Greenfield in 2019.
Vernon Township government is also eyeing land just to the west of the future Leo’s for a new fire station. Commercial uses are envisioned to the south of the Leo’s.
Tuohy pointed out that Traditions at Brookside, a long-term care facility, lies to the west of the site for Bridgenorth Homes’ age-targeted community, while the Villages at Brookside subdivision is to the community’s south.
“I think it’s pretty textbook, classic planning where you’ve got different kinds of neighborhoods grouped together,” Tuohy said.
Ryan Crum, director of planning and building for McCordsville, agreed.
“I do think it’s a really, really good land use to place between the existing uses that are here today,” Crum said.
McCordsville Town Council echoed that agreement through its unanimous vote to amend the rules governing the town’s Villages at Brookside planned unit development to allow for the new community.
The community will have one entrance off 900N. There will also be a connection with North Dresden Drive in Villages at Brookside for pedestrians with removable bollards for emergency vehicle access.
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22 acres near southwest corner of Mt. Comfort Road and 900N in McCordsville
24 four-unit homes, one duplex
1,454 to 2,635 square feet
Targeted to residents 55 and older
Clubhouse
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