Bicknell leaders hope partnership will bring new residents to the small town

Bicknell leaders hope partnership will bring new residents to the small town

Affordable affordable affordable housing has been hard to come by in knox county for years.

But one community is hoping to attract new residents.

News 10 bureau chief gary brian tells us how you can get a chance at some free land.

Gar} "driving around bicknell there's a good chance you'll see an empty lot or two.

The city is now working to replace these lots with new homes."

Bicknell has been working to tear down blighted homes for years now.

This has left them with around 20 empty properties across city limits.

"part of that process required us to gain title or ownership of the property."

Visually the empty lots are better than what stood before.

But the city wants to replace the old homes with new ones.

That's where an advertisement in mayor thomas estabrook's mailbox came in to play.

"you'd think it was a some kind of fancy government deal where i ran into them at some meeting.

Or i ran into somebody they knew or i knew.

And it really wasn't anything like that."

Residents in the city of bicknell got an adverisement for centurty home builders in the mail.

Estabrook decided to call the haubstadt indiana company up.

That's when they came up with a plan.

"a lot of the contractors were telling me that one of the barriers they had to be able to build homes inside some cities was the price of the ground.

The ground was going for ten or fifteen thousand dollars.

It was easy for us to use the ground as an incentive to say we have this, we possess it, we want something to be built here."

Century home builders are starting with six plots in town.

If you go through the company to build the home...you get the plot of land for free.

All in hopes of atracting residents to the small town.

"we've had a lot of success in cleaning up neighborhoods, repairing infastructure, and this is i think the next step for us.

The next step in really changing the community and moving forward and bringing new breath into it."

Gar} "one way to start the process is to reach out to city hall.

In bicknell, gary brian news 10."

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