{"id":6309,"date":"2016-04-27T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2016-04-27T20:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:31:57","slug":"neighborhood-north-of-56th-to-become-tiny-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood North of 56th to Become \u201cTiny Town\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"tiny<\/a>With the Willow Park East and Wicker Park<\/a> neighborhoods up and running, Forest City has turned its attention to developing the area north of 56th. With some big ideas and a large number of Green Book<\/a> issues to address, Forest City came up with some small solutions. \u201cThere is a new trend in America where people are interested in living small,\u201d said Forest City Spokesperson Janelle Ayers. \u201cI mean really small. Stapleton is known for its giant, beautiful homes, but we thought, we can still do beautiful, but maybe scaled down.\u201d Ayers says Forest City plans to build an entire neighborhood using the \u201ctiny home<\/a>\u201d concept. \u201cThis is going to be big. Not the homes, but the idea, obviously.\u201d\n\nForest City sees a lot of opportunity with the idea, from a revenue standpoint, and from a public relations perspective. \u201cWe have not really kept up with our promises from the standpoint of affordable homes<\/a>,\u201d said Ayers. But, we can easily drop three to four times the number of units in this neighborhood as we do with typical Stapleton homes. We can sell those units at \u2018affordable\u2019 prices, but still maximize price per square foot. This is really going to be a win for the community, and more importantly, a win for us.\u201d Many residents do not share Forest City\u2019s enthusiasm. \u201cI don\u2019t think that is the right way to address a lack of socioeconomic diversity,\u201d said resident Stew Walker. \u201cBuilding an entire neighborhood of tiny homes borders being disrespectful. And frankly, I don\u2019t think people are going to flock to these homes.\u201d Sarah Lang agrees. \u201cWho is going to want to live in a tiny, \u2018luxury\u2019 home?\u201d asks Lang. \u201cEspecially when you are putting them all in one neighborhood, as if it\u2019s some sort of really nice internment camp. More than likely, it will just end up being a bunch of unsold homes and a place for people to take their kids instead of driving all the way to Tiny Town<\/a>.\u201d\nAyers and Forest City are predicting demand will be big for these little homes. \u201cWe know there are going to be detractors,\u201d said Ayers. \u201cThere always are. But, c\u2019mon, it\u2019s Stapleton. We are the best, and everyone wants to live here. I\u2019m not so sure we couldn\u2019t build huts and not get buyers. By the way, we can\u2019t build huts due to a fire code issue, as we have already looked into that. Anyway, we have all the confidence in the world that these homes will sell.\u201d Little by little, these homes probably will sell. ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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