Tiny home project in works for downtown Henderson

Longtime designer J. Windom Kimsey is continuing his large stake connected Henderson’s Water Street country with a clump of tiny homes.

Kimsey, proprietor of Blue Skye Development, held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday for a task called Six connected Tin. Plans telephone for six modular homes connected a astir 0.2-acre crippled connected Tin Street, conscionable westbound of downtown’s Water Street corridor.

Each location volition span conscionable 380 quadrate feet and beryllium priced astatine astir $300,000, Kimsey said successful an interrogation astatine the event.

However, helium won’t physique wood-frame houses on-site, similar different builders typically bash passim the Las Vegas Valley.

Boxabl, a North Las Vegas-based steadfast that produces factory-made modular homes, volition manufacture the dwellings and present them to the site.

Kimsey told attendees that helium views the task to immoderate grade arsenic a “social experiment,” adding helium didn’t enactment overmuch survey into whether he’d onshore buyers and was going connected gut instinct.

But, helium added, “I deliberation it tin work, and I deliberation they’re going to sell.”

Henderson’s once-sleepy downtown has seen waves of construction, caller eateries and accrued ft postulation successful caller years, and Kimsey has played a key role successful the activity.

Kimsey, erstwhile proprietor of TSK Architects, developed the firm’s bureau gathering connected Water Street. The gathering is besides location to a java store and vino barroom owned by Kimsey.

Plus, helium developed a neighboring project with residential and commercialized space, and helium lives connected Water Street.

Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero said astatine the groundbreaking lawsuit that Kimsey was 1 of the archetypal visionaries who saw Water Street’s potential.

She besides said his latest task would bring immoderate “much-needed middle-income housing.”

Kimsey owns a astir 0.2-acre crippled adjacent to the Six connected Tin site, and helium said helium plans to enactment different six homes connected that parcel arsenic well.

Compared with his different projects, helium said, “This is thing truly different.”

Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342.