Sean C. Morgan
Sixtieth Avenue will open as soon as striping is completed.
As of Friday paving on the new street was finished, Dan McGarry, who is building the Edgewater townhouses on Foster Lake, said. Only striping remained to open the road and remove the detour by Foster School.
Sixtieth Avenue will be used to access Foster Dam Road from Highway 20. The old Foster Dam Road access has been removed as part of the project.
McGarry and his partners had hoped to open the road earlier, “but our trouble was the rain started really early,” McGarry said. That put Morse Brothers behind working on other projects before it could get to his.
The project as a whole is “coming along really nice,” McGarry said. “Everything’s falling into place now.”
The first building should be “weathered in” by the end of the month, McGarry said. That means the roof will be on, and crews can work inside.
McGarry is planning to hydroseed along the new sidewalk, which runs along the shoreline where the old road did. It will serve as erosion control through the winter until landscaping can be finished next year.
The first building includes three of the project’s 12 units. The next building, which will have its foundation poured this week, is a single unit farthest west in the project.
After the road opens, the majority of the remaining construction will be on the east side of the project, the housing development. After the third building is started, the paving, curbs and sidewalk inside the project can be completed.
Edgewater includes five buildings, including a two-unit building at the east end. One of those units will be the largest in the project at 3,000 square feet. Total, it will have three three-unit buildings, one two-unit building and one single-unit building.
The units are already listed with Prudential and listed at $475,000. A marketing campaign will begin in the next week or two, including a virtual walk through on the Internet.
McGarry hopes to go to work on the RV park to the east of 60th Avenue. That portion of the project will include a small tackle shop and possibly a restaurant.