Brenda Wade Schmidt
Enterprise

Local building contractors Pulscher Brothers Construction plan a town home development in Flandreau.
The homes will be located north of Edgewood Vista Assisted Living, starting with a single home that will be built beginning this year.
“We’re hoping to start toward the end of the month. We would frame on them throughout the winter,” said Shannon Pulscher, who owns the company with his brother, Steve. The first home will be built as a spec home but when it sells, others will be built. “As they sell, we would try to keep another one in progress.”

Pulscher Brothers, which has built other twin homes in Flandreau, has seen the need for more housing for people who want to have fewer responsibilities with yard maintenance and snow removal, Pulscher said. The town home development with have a homeowners’ association fee that would take care of that.
“Even people in town–they have their own house and they don’t want to do all of this,” he said.
“I think there’s a need for these town homes.”
The town homes will be built without basements, will include a two-stall garage and will have two bedrooms with a total of about 1,500 square feet of living space. People who buy them can customize them to their own style, Pulscher said. “We would build to suit.”
The cost of the homes would be between $225,000 and $250,000 for one half.
“We’re not building a low end. It’s probably middle- to upper-end. We want good quality cabinets,” he said.
The property has room for 10 townhomes for a total of 20 units.
The issue of more housing came up this summer when a Pipestone developer was interested in building twin homes in Southview Heights, a development owned by the Flandreau Development Corp. Lots haven’t sold.
For now, the FDC has decided to keep Southview Heights a single-family homes development, said Kelley Ramsdell, who helped facilitate a meeting on housing.
The FDC will help Pulschers with some tax relief. If the town home development takes longer to fill, in years three and four, the FDC will pay the property taxes.
The Pulschers have had interest in doing a town home development for some time, Shannon Pulscher said. They are working with local subcontractors and local investors, he said.
“We see more of a need for this than even before. We’ve always been so busy it’s been hard to fit something like this in,” he said. But the timing is right for the project now, he said.