An apartment project totaling upwards of $75 million on the edge of downtown Mission is eyeing a 2028 completion.
Mission Beverly, the more than 250-unit apartment project near Powell Community Center, broke ground in March.
Devon Coffey, director of development for Indianapolis-based Milhaus, told the Post that, as someone with 11 years of development experience, the top experts she’s talked to say they’ve “never seen anything as complicated as what we had to go through to get this project started.”
“Truly, to see it materializing now, there’s a lot of good projects in Mission, but we feel like this one is just gonna take things kind of to the next level as far as the amenities and what the project will bring to the area,” Coffey said.
The project plan features two separate buildings on both sides of Martway Street at Beverly Street. It will bring more than 250 apartments between the two separate buildings and a 1,500-square-foot retail space.
“Such a battle”
For Milhaus, Coffey said the Mission Beverly project has been “such a battle.”
A large part of that battle is from some infrastructure work that had to be done before the actual apartment project construction could begin, Coffey said.
For instance, a 24-inch water main on Dearborn Street that had to be moved several feet into the street to get it away from the apartment’s foundation, Coffey said.
Other utility construction that had to happen included improvements to the city’s storm sewer system and relocation of some sanitary lines.
Coffey said city staff and the public utility teams worked with Milhaus to accomplish all of the improvements that had to happen ahead of the project breaking ground.
As for why there were so many necessary improvements, Coffey said it’s “the age of the area.”
For example, Coffey said the water main that was relocated was built in the early 1950s when the documentation on the location of the water mains weren’t as accurate.
“It’s all normal stuff, it’s nothing really unusual,” Coffey said. “I think whenever you’re working in an urban area, these types of conflicts and things pop up. You don’t really know what’s on the ground until you open it up and you start looking.”
A look at the project
The more than 250-unit apartment project has been in the works since at least 2022 when Milhaus first pitched the idea to the Mission City Council.
Milhaus received a 75% tax abatement for the project, the highest possible tax abatement the city of Mission’s policy allows.
The plan calls for two separate buildings, one on the north side of Martway that is a four-story structure with 206 units as well as a parking structure with more than 250 stalls.
On the south side of Martway will be the second building, a three-story structure with 57 units and a parking lot in the back.
So far, Coffey told the Post that the foundation for the south building “is completely poured.”
Once foundation of the north side of the building is completed, Coffey said, drivers and neighbors will begin to see the project going vertical.
“Within a couple of months neighbors will start to see, I would say by November, they should start to see framing going up on the south side of Martway,” Coffey said. “After the first of the year, we’ll start framing on the north side of Martway on the big building.”
Mission Beverly is on track for summer 2028 completion
Coffey said there have been no delays in the project’s timeline.
That means the upwards of $75 million project is on track for a summer 2028 completion.
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