The long commute may soon be over for employees at Roper Corp. and other Northwest Georgia manufacturers.
A $10.8 million development coming to LaFayette next year will bring 61 units of affordable housing to accommodate the area’s ever-growing workforce.
Once building permits have been acquired from the city, Rea Ventures Group will build a series of townhomes and quadplexes in the Linwood community, a former mill village that the city is now looking to revitalize.
The Atlanta-based developer’s investment will address the critical need for housing, as approximately 60 percent of the employees in local industrial plants live outside LaFayette, said City Manager David Hamilton.
“That’s kind of the driving force behind what we’re trying to do here: provide housing for the people who are already working in the local factories,” Hamilton said. “We want to [give them] the ability to live here in town as opposed to living elsewhere.”