Grand Rapids-based Wheeler Development Group is pursuing its first workforce housing community under a recently expanded state program that allows brownfield tax captures for housing projects.
Wheeler Development Group in April presented early concept plans to the Lowell Planning Commission for its 72-unit project called Lowell Flats. It is planned for the southern half of an approximately 4-acre parcel at 1160 W. Main St. in Lowell.
The developer is under contract to buy the property for an undisclosed sum from an affiliate of Greenridge Realty Lowell, whose offices are located in a building on the northern part of the parcel…