Tuesday, October 15, 2024
MARINETTE – The City of Marinette has approved a zoning change and has annexed a portion of land from the Town of Peshtigo to make way for Shipyard Estate, a development of single-family homes and apartments being constructed where the old Bay Area Hospital formerly was located, said Marinette Common Council Member Doug Oitzinger. “There are still more steps, but this was another part of the process.”
Green Bay-based Tycore Built purchased the land for about $900,000 and plans to build about 174 apartments and 22 single-family homes in separate areas of the development at Shore Drive and University Drive, said Wade Micoley, owner of Tycore Built.
The Marinette Common Council approved an ordinance allowing the annexation into Oitzinger’s Ward 3 at an Oct. 1 special meeting. Oitzinger said most of the development falls within Marinette city limits. The part being annexed was described as part of government lots two and three, Section 17, in the Town of Peshtigo. The development is behind the University of Wisconsin Green Bay-Marinette’s campus.
With the annexation, the new development will pay City of Marinette property taxes and receive municipal water and sewerage services, which Micoley said was important to the project. The development at 3100 and 3132 Shore Dr. falls within the Marinette School District.
The annexation involved a right of way, Oitzinger said. Much of it was only about five feet in width, according to a description contained in Marinette Common Council board documents. With the approved ordinance modifying the zoning, the property now is zoned R-1 and RM-2.
“The zoning is good now. They’re able to move forward,” Oitzinger said. “There are things they have to do yet. Single-family lots have yet to be surveyed and approved by the Planning Commission.”
As soon as roads are constructed at Shipyard Estates, Tycore Built will begin construction on the first five homes, Oitzinger said.
To begin the road construction, the city had to approve the annexation. “Technically we couldn’t be ripping up the road to accommodate this housing development” until the annexation was approved, he said.
The annexation was separate from the zoning approval. “It’s a separate tangential thing because we discovered University Dr. between Shore Dr., as it comes around the university and hooks up to Bay Shore St., had never been annexed into the city. We thought it was a city street, and it wasn’t. That will get rebuilt,” Oitzinger said.
Before the new road is put in, the city will run city municipal sewer, water and storm lines to the development.
The Shipyard Estates homes and apartments that will be built on the property are sorely needed in Marinette, according to a housing study indicating the city could use about 600 additional housing units, Mayor Steve Genisot said.
The price point for three bedroom, two bath homes is $299,000, including the lot, Micoley said. The company is building about 80 houses a year in Wisconsin, which allows it better pricing, he said.
“It’s not the McMansions that are being built,” Micoley said. “It’s all about really good quality houses at really good affordable prices.”
