Cooks Corner 24-unit project could become reality with assistance from Bay Aging
by Larry Chowning –
The plan to build 24 workforce housing apartments in the Cooks Corner area is alive again as the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) agreed on Wednesday, Nov. 3, that the project be taken over by Bay Aging.
The workforce apartment complex was first brought up in 2019 and originally part of a $3 million Cooks Corner Revitalization Project to be funded through grants and a public-private partnership between Rappahannock Oyster Company in Topping and Shamin Hotels in Chester. COVID-19 forced the partnership to dissolve and resulted in the loss of $3 million in grant funding.
At the Nov. 3 supervisors meeting, Bruce DeSimone, chairman of the Middlesex Foundation, along with President-CEO of Bay Aging Kathy Vesley, requested the board agree to Bay Aging taking over the project.
“Bay Aging is well equipped to taking over the project and successfully making it all come together,” said DeSimone.
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