New neigbors coming as houses sprout up in town

“There is a lot of activity,” says Marianne Manville-Ailles, Town planner, commenting on the three houses being built on in-fill lots on Centre, Maple and Whatcom streets. Scott and Francis McDade will be adding three units to the town’s housing stock: Their house is a duplex and there will be a cottage-type unit on the lot, also.

The five total residential units more than doubles the two units built each of the last two years. Three new single-family residences were built in 2015.

Since 2008 six homes have been demolished, with new homes built on the properties.

Ailles noted that since the 2008 great recession there have been some years that no homes were built.

Home Trust of Skagit plans to build five housing units on the far northwest corner of its Channel Cove property on Park Street in 2019. Two will be side-by-side townhouses and one a single structure.