Water pumping station tops new construction projects in Henderson
HENDERSON, Ky. − The construction of a Henderson Water Utilities water pumping station at 1022 Sand Lane topped new construction activity here last month.
The City of Henderson secured a new-commercial building permit valued at nearly $3.3 million for the project.
“The pump station is being installed to help with water supply and pressure for Pratt Paper,” the $600 million corrugated box recycling mill and adjacent box manufacturing plant that’s under construction on the U.S. 425/South Bypass, city Public Information Officer Holli Blanford said in an email message. “It’ll actually benefit many businesses and residents on that side of town as they’ll also see an increase in water pressure.”
That was by far the biggest building permit issued here during the first two months of the year, accounting for nearly half of the value of all construction in the city.
Meanwhile, a permit authorizing remodeling of the North South Café (formerly the North-South Truck Stop) near Robards to redevelop it as a convenience store with fuel pumps was issued last month by the county codes office.
AKSHAR21 Inc. received a $100,000 commercial building permit for remodeling of the North South building at 14260 U.S. 41-South, including building a walk-in cooler.
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The project will also include construction of two canopies, with gasoline pumps out front and diesel pumps beside the building.
The owners sought a rezoning of the 2.3-acre tract last October from Agricultural to General Business District. The Henderson City-County Planning Commission unanimously approved the rezoning, in part because the property previously had a convenience store and gas pumps, and also because there are several large factories and other employers in the area but there are no fuel pumps in that area of the county (the nearest pumps are in Sebree or Henderson).
A Canadian company, Cordelio Power, received two permits of $21,700 each for the erection of a pair of weather towers, nearly 200 feet tall each, on Spottsville Bluff City Road and Eutopia Road, that will be used to gauge the potential of the two sites in eastern Henderson County for a future wind farm for electric generation.
A pair of permits for new single-family residences were issued in February by the county codes office, bringing the total of housing starts so far this year to three. None were issued by the city during the first two months of the year.
During the first two months of 2022, a total of four permits had been issued for new houses.
In February, the total construction value of all building permits totaled $5 million, including $3.9 million in the city and $1.1 million in the county. That compares with just $771,270 of construction value in February 2022.
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During the first two months of this year, the value of permits totaled $8.5 million, compared with $2.6 million during the same period last year.
Here are the permits issued here last month:
City of Henderson
Antenna: City of Henderson, 1901 Madison St., $41,000.
Commercial range hood: E.L. Walters Air Conditioning & Heating Inc., 2044 U.S. 41-North, $11,989.
Commercial accessory: Worsham Post 40 Inc., 1709 Madison St., $10,000; DSS Contracting LLC. 1631 S. Green St., $10,000; and Franks Investments LLC, 600 U.S. 41-Alternate, $15,000.
Commercial new construction: City of Henderson, 1022 Sand Lane, $3.3 million.
Commercial remodeling: Church of Christ, 1202 N. Green St., $5,000; Hayden Development Co. LLC, 455 Klutey Park Plaza, $13,000; Henderson Property Associates LLC, 1111 Barret Blvd., $150,000; and Midwest Contracting Inc., 505 Klutey Park Plaza, $185,000.
Manufactured home demolitions: J&H Rentals LLC, 615 Graves Dr., $4,000; and The Cole Group LLC, 727 Sixth St., $4,450.
Single-family residential demolitions: Darrel and Coy Owen, 109 Clay St., $0.01; and John A. Bailey Jr. and John D. Robertson, 1416 Powell St., $3,500.
New manufactured home: J&H Rentals, 2338 Carter Dr., $30,000.
Single-family residential accessory: William J. and Susan Diann Hailey, 2716 Tippicanoe Trail, $5,000.
Single-family residential remodel: Jamie L. and Josey M. Harris, 1404 Porter Dr., $3,500; and Anthony J. and Patsy L. Newman, 3232 Culpepper Ct., $400.
Signs: Maruti Donuts 4 Realty LLC, 2222 U.S. 41-North, $13,000; SKN Properties LLC, 2030 U.S. 41-North, $100,000; Walmart Real Estate Business Trust, 1195 Barret Blvd., $9,000; Ash Audubon Property Owner LLC. 2490 U.S. 41-North, $5,000; and Ash Audubon Property Owner LLC, 2480 U.S. 41-North, n/a.
Total: $3.9 million
Henderson County
New single-family residences: Chad Mackey, 2250 Book Dr., $200,000; and Zach Williams,8121 Resinerg Road, $400,000.
Commercial: Hydro Aluminum, 5801 Riverport Road, $50,000; AKSHAR21 Inc., 14260 U.S. 41-South, $100,000; Cordelio Power, 14908 Spottsville Bluff City Road, $21,700; and Cordelio Power, 5775 Eutopia Road, $21,700.
Raze and remove: Regina Arnold, 6955 Kentucky 416-West, $4,000.
Manufactured home: Anthony & Breanna Eiras, 8563 John Steele Road, $183,311.
Garages/utility structures: Brent Walters, 1640 Posey Ball Road, $68,500; Tanya Beard, 6519 Cottingham Lane, $9,240; and Anthony Dreyhaupt, 17751 Kentucky 1078-South, $25,000.
Miscellaneous: Justin & Stephany Wright, 13793 U.S. 41-Alternate, $54,780.
Total: $1.1 million
This article originally appeared on Henderson Gleaner: Water pumping station tops new construction projects in Henderson
