Dec 24, 2020 1 min to read
It was great to learn last week about plans for the former downtown Joplin Family Y.
A family real estate investment firm â Blue Haven Homes â recently closed on the 100-year-old building and announced a $5 million project to convert it into apartments. We will try to redo it as a historical building, and to do that, we have to get it on the national register, so it will be September or October before we can even start the rehab process,â one of the partners, Sawyer Smith, told us.
That is most welcome news, coming as it does on the heels of the distressing announcement about the Olivia â the developer did not receive the hoped-for state tax credits and warned that the building might not survive until another round of tax credits is allocated next year. Heartbreaking.