Sara Stadem | Editor
City of Crooks has several projects underway that will continue to develop over the course of the next couple of months.
The City of Crooks Housing and Redevelopment Commission (HRC) is in their second phase for their current housing development. Mayor Butch Oseby explained they only have 11 lots left right now. “It just seems like a few months ago that they had 22 lots to go. It seems like sales are going well and it seems like houses are going up. Sales have been going well in the last 14 months or so,” he said.
By the time the City of Crooks is out of lots on the second phase with the current housing development, Mayor Oseby hopes they will be ready to sell lots with another development.
According to Mayor Oseby, the Crooks Development Cooperation has a contract to purchase 90 acres of land in the north end of Crooks which will be a combination of commercial, industrial and housing lots.
The plan is for the industrial portion to begin in June of 2021. There will be more details coming in the next few weeks as to what businesses will be coming. “There will be about four to five different companies coming,” Mayor Oseby stated. “Unfortunately, we are unable to give names at this time until we have more details so we are hoping to give more information in the next three to four weeks.”
Even though the industrial building will start this summer, the housing development will more than likely not begin for a year in that area.
Mayor Oseby also explained there is a developer that is buying some land around the new school that is going up as well. Even though nothing has been finalized yet, it sounds like it will be mid to late summer for that once there is sewer and water.
With that development around the school, there will be about four acres of commercial property up along the highway that the city will be working on bringing businesses there. Mayor Oseby said, “So there are several different areas we have been working on expanding in Crooks that you will continue to see over the next several months.”