Proximity to urban centers of offices, retail and entertainment is also the attraction of the South Side, where the city's greatest concentration of new home construction is under way. We're finding a younger population that wants more of an urban lifestyle. The Prudential Preferred Realty sales agent is marketing South Shore Place, a community of upscale townhouses, where builder Signature Homes plans 100 to 120 units. The project also includes conversion of an existing building into four or five lofts. Twenty-five homes are finished and six are under construction, said Kurdys Miller.
New construction is a rare bird in the city.
So anything that's new certainly gets looked at. Fox Way Commons and New Birmingham, which together include 58 townhouses overlooking the river between 16th and 17th streets. The South Side isn't drawing interest from just those who want to build along the riverfront. On the drawing board, Hardy said, are seven detached, two-bedroom townhouses that South Side Local Development would build on the South Side slopes around Stella and Shelly streets. Several developers already have converted old schools and former industrial buildings into lofts that attract mostly young professionals who don't want to maintain a large residence.