Longtime architect J. Windom Kimsey is continuing his big bet on Henderson’s Water Street area with a cluster of tiny homes.
Kimsey, owner of Blue Skye Development, held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday for a project called Six on Tin. Plans call for six modular homes on a roughly 0.2-acre plot on Tin Street, just west of downtown’s Water Street corridor.
Each home will span just 380 square feet and be priced at almost $300,000, Kimsey said in an interview at the event.
However, he won’t build wood-frame houses on-site, like other builders typically do throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
Boxabl, a North Las Vegas-based firm that produces factory-made modular homes, will manufacture the dwellings and deliver them to the site.
Kimsey told attendees that he views the project to some degree as a “social experiment,” adding he didn’t put much study into whether he’d land buyers and was going on gut instinct.
But, he added, “I think it can work, and I think they’re going to sell.”
Henderson’s once-sleepy downtown has seen waves of construction, new eateries and increased foot traffic in recent years, and Kimsey has played a key role in the activity.
Kimsey, former owner of TSK Architects, developed the firm’s office building on Water Street. The building is also home to a coffee shop and wine bar owned by Kimsey.
Plus, he developed a neighboring project with residential and commercial space, and he lives on Water Street.
Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero said at the groundbreaking event that Kimsey was one of the first visionaries who saw Water Street’s potential.
She also said his latest project would bring some “much-needed middle-income housing.”
Kimsey owns a nearly 0.2-acre plot next to the Six on Tin site, and he said he plans to put another six homes on that parcel as well.
Compared to his other projects, he said, “This is something really different.”
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