By about this time next year, a former industrial site will have been transformed into Willoughby Estates, an upscale lease community.
“It will have everything you’d expect in a class A complex, and more,” said Scott Wieland, co-owner of Lansing-based construction company Wieland, which is building Willoughby Estates. For this project, Wieland has partnered with Maple Grove Property Management of East Lansing, which will manage the complex.
Although Wieland is well-known in mid-Michigan for commercial construction, it does a substantial amount of multi-family work in Florida and North Carolina, and wanted to put that expertise to use here. The Willoughby Estates property, former site of Cheney Concrete and Décor Products, has undergone a $3.2 million environmental cleanup to prepare for construction.
Geared toward young professionals and empty nesters, the $38 million, 269-unit gated complex will feature four different residence styles for lease: standard apartments; “flats” with garages below; two-story townhouses, and single-family homes known as “cottages.” The site also boasts its own pond and lake.
Additional amenities will include a clubhouse/meeting center, a playground, an onsite bus stop, a dog park with separate areas for large and small dogs, a dog wash and grooming area, and gated mini-storage parking area for boats, jet skis, etc. Scott is pleased to bring a lease community of this caliber to Delhi Township and is grateful to the DDA and township officials for helping make it a reality.
“We want to convey a sense that they’ve arrived at home,” Scott said.
The first phase of occupancy, 150 units, will be ready a year from now, with the entire community expected to be complete by year-end 2017.
Willoughby Estates will be on the 4100 block of Willoughby Road, wielandbuilds.com/project/Willoughby-estates/.