CHICKASHA – The final plat for a multifamily development in southwest Chickasha received the City Council’s blessing, joining a handful of other residential projects built or under construction here.
Haven Pointe Addition, at South 22nd Street and West Nevada Avenue, features 4.5 acres divided into seven lots supporting 14 multifamily residential units, according to Daniel Remington, manager of Remington Properties in Yukon.
A common area and a detention pond for temporary storage of stormwater drainage are envisioned, Remington told city officials.
Several other major residential developments are underway in Chickasha.
• Villas at Grand, a duplex community of approximately 30 rentals at Marlin Court in Chickasha, off Grand Avenue just south of Interstate 44 off Highway 62, opened last year. It has two- and three-bedroom floor designs with two full bathrooms and attached two-car garages.
• Scissortail Crossing, which is to have 46 single-family houses, is under construction at 29th Street and the southeast corner of Grand Avenue. The City Council approved the final plat of that housing addition last February.
• Rausch Coleman’s Shadow Valley development has three- and four-bedroom “starter homes” on the north side of town, ranging from 1,012 square feet to 1,840 square feet.
• Redbud Ridge will be an upscale gated community of 48 custom-built houses, the first neighborhood of its kind in Chickasha. The development is located a mile west of U.S. Highway 81 on Country Club Road and south on Pondridge Road.
• Expansion of the Sleepy Hollow addition is a Home Creations development in south Chickasha, just south of Country Club Road and South Ninth Street. Homeowners can choose from multiple floor plans.
In addition, several property owners have taken older houses in Chickasha priced at about $40,000 to $50,000, and renovated them for sale at $100,000 or more, said Jim Cowan, president of the Chickasha Economic Development Council.
“There have been about a dozen of these projects that have occurred in the last year or so. This indicates Chickasha is a good investment,” he said. “We want doctors and lawyers and bankers, as well as 20- and 30-somethings, to buy a house here.”
Chickasha is conveniently located roughly halfway between the Oklahoma City metroplex to the north, and Lawton, Medicine Park, and the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge to the south, Cowan noted. It lies directly west of Interstate 44 and also is accessible via U.S. Highways 62, 81 and 277.