Developer seeks Parkway Village renovation
TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
The Maryville City Council is being asked for a resolution in support of a proposed $2.5 million renovation of the 1980s-era Parkway Village apartment complex on East Seventh Street. Contingent on approval of a government-assisted financing package, AMB Development plans on overhauling the 51-unit complex by installing new electrical and plumbing fixtures, wall-to-wall carpeting, vinyl plank flooring, additional insulation, new windows, new roofs, Energy Star kitchen appliances, and energy-efficient heating and cooling systems.
The Maryville City Council will begin work a full 90 minutes early Monday during its final regular August session.
Council members are to gather at City Hall at 5:30 p.m. for a budget workshop that is to include a review of proposed fiscal 2016 spending in connection with Mozingo Lake Recreation Park.
Following the workshop — a regular occurrence during the late-summer budget planning season — the council will reconvene for its regularly scheduled meeting, during which the city’s governing board is expected to adopt a new list of goals for the 2015-2016 budget year beginning Oct. 1.
According to a staff report prepared by City Manager Greg McDanel, the council’s top goals for the coming year include:
• Approval of a strategy for ending deficit spending at the municipal solid waste transfer station.
• Implementation of South Main corridor improvements designed to ease traffic flow.
• Initiating campaigns geared toward voter renewal of municipal sales taxes that provide revenue for Mozingo Lake Recreation Park and capital improvements inside the city proper.
• Maintaining and improving infrastructure.
• Implementing employee betterment initiatives.
• Continued support for private development of a hotel and conference center at Mozingo Lake.
This year’s goals were arrived at late last month following two days of meetings between council members, municipal staff, and the Art Davis Group consulting firm.
Also before the council is a request from AMB Development for a resolution of support in connection with proposed renovation of the Parkway Village apartment complex on East Seventh Street.
AMB is seeking the resolution as part of its effort to obtain $370,000 in Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Missouri Housing Development Commission in addition to a $500,000 loan through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s HOME Investment Partnerships Program.
Parkway Village is a 51-unit residential complex built in the 1980s and consisting of one- and two-bedroom units contained in one- and two-story buildings.
If AMB is approved for government-assisted financing, the proposed $2.5 million rehabilitation is to embrace new ceiling fans, cabinets, countertops, electrical fixtures, plumbing fixtures, paint, garbage disposals, wall-to-wall carpeting, and vinyl plank flooring.
In addition, the apartments will be outfitted with additional insulation, new windows, and new roofs and equipped with Energy Star kitchen appliances and energy-efficient heating and cooling systems.
On other fronts, the council will hear a presentation from SK Design Group with regard to a city-commissioned South Main Street traffic corridor study. The agenda also includes funding requests from the Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri and the Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce with regard to Great Northwest Day, a regional lobbying event scheduled for Feb. 2 in Jefferson City.
Additional measures before the governing board include proposed annexation of residential property on North College Drive and a memorandum of understanding with the Northwest Technical School building trades program for construction of an eighth rental cabin at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park.
