POCATELLO â Work is currently underway to prevent a local hotel from becoming blighted while also providing much-needed housing, adult supervision and workforce training services for elderly veterans in the region.
A Chicago-based real estate investment and development company, Lockwood Development Partners LLC, after obtaining a contract-based conditional use permit from the Pocatello City Council last month, is forging ahead with plans to turn the Clarion Inn on Bench Road into a 125-unit apartment complex for veterans over age 55, complete with an on-site adult daycare and a workforce training and education center.
âWe are very excited,â Dan McNulty, an architect and principal investor with Lockwood Development Partners, told the Pocatello City Council during a Nov. 19 meeting. âEverybody is struggling in this pandemic, but really, we are doing two things with this project â weâre helping out vets and weâre saving a lot of aspects of the hospit