Burrton residents can expect new neighbors in the coming years after the city has three housing starts this year. According to City Clerk Kim Ryan, in previous years the city had about one housing start a year. Beth Anne Kingsley, a real estate agent for the Burrton area, said she expected at least three more housing starts next year, as well. “I thought that was a pretty cool thing,” Kingsley said. The population of Burrton has declined steadily since 2000. According to the national census, between 2010 and 2020, the population decreased by 4.4 percent. In other parts of the county, Hesston and Newton’s populations have also decreased since 2010, but Halstead’s population has increased by 4.5 percent. Kingsley said she talked with JCL Construction to build one of the homes and said the company has plans for two more housing starts next year. The current house they’re working on already had a basement, and the owner agreed to let them build on it. “The gentleman that owns that also owns Stinger and is very active in the Burrton community,” Kingsley said. “[He] wanted to see new houses, so he made it easy for my builder.” In addition to the houses JCL Construction will work on, the free lots Burrton offers got some attention this year. Burrton has offered several free lots in the past for housing starts, but they’ve had little interest until now. Ryan said no one had taken advantage of the lots before now. Kingsley said one of the lots is now spoken for and will start moving forward soon.
Source: Harvey County Now
