Clarion County commissioners on Tuesday learned the details of a proposed 100-to-120-unit housing development.
Tim Reddinger, general partner with Clarion Trinity Development Co., said the new units would be called Southview Village and would be located in the Trinity Point development on the east side of Route 68.
He said the development will mainly be comprised of dense housing as opposed to single-family homes.
“The demand for affordable, accessible housing in Clarion is very large,” said Reddinger. He stressed the idea behind the housing development is to bring a larger workforce into Clarion.
The first phase of the project would include about 30 one-to-three-bedroom apartments.
The commissioners approved the plan and signed a letter of support to send to the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. In the letter, the commissioners stated their full support for Gatesburg Road Development and Alliance Housing Development’s combined efforts to develop “workforce housing” on East Trinity and Southview Drive in Clarion.
The commissioners said the funding for this development will create 45 affordable apartment and townhouse units and will cost roughly $19 million for build-out and create much needed homes for working families in the county.
Another development at Trinity Point is taking shape as a five-acre truck stop plaza will have auto and truck fueling along with a food court in the plaza.
The developers of the travel plaza, GJAMS Clarion Holdings LLC., bought the land from Trinity Development in June 2021. The COVID pandemic delayed development of the plaza.
In another matter at Tuesday’s commissioners meeting, county Tax Claim Bureau director Megan Kerr said 20 properties were exposed for sale with 10 being sold at the recent judicial tax sale.
One property was removed from the sale because the owner filed for bankruptcy.
The parcels that were sold collected $52,300, and the parcels that weren’t sold were placed in a repository where a bid can be placed on them at any time.
The commissioners next meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 27.