LAKE STEVENS — In January 2010, many more families stationed at Naval Station Everett should have a guaranteed place to live close to work.
Pacific Northwest Communities, a joint venture of the Navy and Forest City, a Cleveland, Ohio-based development company, has bought 155 lots in Lake Stevens for single-family housing.
The land is part of Glenwood Acres, begun as a development by Pacific Ridge Homes of Bothell at 131st Avenue NE and Fourth Street NE. The sale closed Monday. The price was not disclosed.
“It’s certainly a good thing for us, for our sailors,” Navy spokesman Rick Huling said. “There’s no traditional base housing for families.”
Naval Station Everett has barracks on base for single sailors, while the closest housing for families is at Carroll’s Creek in Marysville, with 288 homes, he said.
About 5,000 sailors are stationed at the Navy base. Fifty-three families are housed at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, in the middle of Discovery Park. The Navy is scheduled to give up that property as soon as the new housing becomes available.
About 500 unmarried sailors are housed in barracks or on ships in Everett, with housing for 500 more under construction, Huling said.
The Navy had originally planned to move sailors to a new location in Marysville, and property was bought there by American Eagle, a Dallas company. That project was scuttled by problems with slopes, marshes and access, and Pacific Northwest Communities purchased the land from American Eagle about a year ago, said Michael Nanney, senior project executive for Pacific Northwest Communities.
The company will hang onto that land for now and likely sell it at a future date, Nanney said.
Work on the houses at Glenwood Village is scheduled to begin in January and be finished in about a year, he said.
The company plans to build 141 homes and a community center, leaving some space open for park land, Nanney said.
The Lake Stevens City Council approved the plans on Nov. 10.
The property has already been graded and has curbs, gutters, sidewalks, lighting and utilities, he said.
Pacific Ridge Homes is keeping 26 lots on the west side of the development and is selling those to private individuals, said Mike Kinney, one of the company’s owners. He said Pacific Ridge had its hands full with seven projects in the works or under construction, so the sale made sense.
“Business has been pretty good for us,” he said. “Not too bad compared to what’s going on globally.”
Reporter Bill Sheets: 425-339-3439 or sheets@heraldnet.com.
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