FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A new residential development broke ground Wednesday on Wallen Road, promising to bring more than 300 modular units to Fort Wayne faster than traditional construction methods.
The project, called The Orchard on Wallen, is a partnership between Helix Modular Development and R. Yoder Construction. It will feature 303 one and two-bedroom units built as triplexes using modular construction techniques.
Instead of building each unit from the ground up on-site, the modules are manufactured inside a climate-controlled facility in Indianapolis, then transported to Fort Wayne and placed by crane…