Major homebuilder eyes townhouse project in Henderson

With restaurants, breweries and adjacent an crystal rink lining Water Street, downtown Henderson has started to determination past its, well, sleepy past.

Now, 1 of the biggest homebuilders successful the federation is looking to get successful connected the action.

Lennar Corp. filed plans for a 25-unit townhouse project connected a 1.6-acre crippled on Water Street betwixt Basic Road and Ocean Avenue, Henderson metropolis records show.

Home operation sites tin beryllium recovered each implicit Southern Nevada. But this is the archetypal clip successful caller representation that a nationalist homebuilder has ventured to downtown Henderson, signaling that astatine slightest 1 heavyweight lodging developer is consenting to gamble, albeit with a comparatively tiny project, that radical privation to unrecorded successful the burgeoning commercialized corridor.

Downtown has gained momentum, and the townhouses would beryllium built by a big-name company, Home Builders Research President Andrew Smith pointed out.

“It’s decidedly a unsocial thing,” said Smith, who noted the World War II-era homes successful the country are immoderate of the oldest successful the valley.

TSK Architects proprietor Windom Kimsey, whose steadfast is connected Water Street, said helium is “very enthusiastic” astir Lennar’s project, which would beryllium built crossed from a tiny mixed-use improvement of his own.

His project, Southend Lofts, volition diagnostic 3 apartments and immoderate commercialized space.

Kimsey said downtown needs much housing, which helium believes could spark different businesses to acceptable up store successful the area. He besides noted that astir developers downtown are smaller, autarkic firms and that helium has seen plentifulness of task plans travel and spell implicit the years.

“They’ll get it done,” helium said of Lennar.

Lennar’s task tract is presently owned by the city. After the Review-Journal asked to talk with a metropolis authoritative astir the project, Henderson spokeswoman Kathleen Richards replied that an interrogation “would beryllium premature” astatine this time.

Richards confirmed that the onshore merchantability is successful negotiations.

She noted the developer is seeking a concept program review, which she described arsenic a “courtesy unit reappraisal to supply applicants with feedback astatine a precise aboriginal signifier successful their readying process.”

Miami-based Lennar closed much than 53,000 location income past year, according to Builder magazine.

Lennar representatives did not respond to a petition for comment.

Henderson officials person agelong sought to revitalize the city’s downtown, wherever implicit the years ft postulation has been airy and ground-up existent property projects have, for the astir part, been comparatively small.

But caller restaurants person opened downtown, different ventures person taken signifier and more radical person been heading to Water Street.

Lifeguard Arena, the signifier rink for the Silver Knights minor-league hockey team, opened past autumn and a seven-story mixed-use project is being built crossed the street.

Your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic excavation whether different large builders travel Lennar to Water Street. Still, for a corridor that agelong needed immoderate commerce, landing 1 is large enough.

Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall connected Twitter.