Affordable housing complex takes first steps

Excavation has begun for an affordable housing complex that is to be built on Excel St., which will make one-bedroom apartments available to residents making 30 percent or less of the local median income.

Glenn Gellert of Swell, LLC, the real estate development company building the complex, said the COVID-19 pandemic and a shake up of its contractors has postponed the project. He said he hopes to begin renting units by Jan. 1, 2022.

"Once we had all our ducks in a row, we were ready to go," said Gellert.

Rock-N-Road Construction has recently begun excavating the site for the complex on three l...