News – Sheridan Media
Story House Village is an ambitious plan. The brainchild of University of Wyoming and Yale graduate, Sean Higgins, Story House Village – a 240 acre planned unit development – will be the community around the heart of the project; Veteran Village.
Recently, Higgins appeared on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse program to speak about the project.
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Design provided to Sheridan Media courtesy of ERA Carroll Realty.
The large development that will encompass Veteran Village was not part of the original plan to develop a home for displaced veterans. Originally, Veteran Village was going to be independent. But according to Higgins, that idea hit barriers.
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Veteran Village is approximately 14 acres of the 240 acres included in the Story House development. If all goes according to plan, it will feature approximately 50 small homes for homeless veterans and veterans in need.
Design provided to Sheridan Media courtesy of ERA Carroll Realty.
Story House Village will be the larger community offering senior housing, attainable housing, market family single homes, apartments for rent, multi-family homes, townhomes, green space, a 15-acre pond and even commercial space.
Higgins and the team he has built, hope the development will address a laundry list of housing problems facing Sheridan by reinvesting into itself. According to Higgins, Story House plans to roll substantial portions of profits from home purchases and rent in Story House Village to fund future phases of the development. Additionally, Story House plans to come alongside Veteran Village as a “Philanthropic Big-Brother,” taking on main infrastructure design costs and devoting a large portion of its philanthropy efforts back into the non-profit to help provide housing for veterans in need.
Design provided to Sheridan Media courtesy of ERA Carroll Realty.
Higgins said, the non-profit, as currently modeled, has a breakeven in 17 to 18 years. At that point, profits will be placed into an endowment controlled by a board to create education and vocational opportunities for veterans.
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To aid in this endeavor of creating Story House and Veteran Village, Higgins has recruited a local team of engineers, ERA Carroll Realty, and others.
Veteran Village has built out a board of its own with the help of The Roberts Family Foundation, The Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation and trusted-long time partners. Construction will follow a four phase approach. Phase one, scheduled to break ground sometime in early fall of 2023, will include building a mixed income neighborhood addressing attainable housing on 30 acres. A hundred unit multi-family complex included in phase one has already sparked interest, according to Higgins.
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Last modified: April 11, 2023