126th, Pacific project aims to welcome residents this fall

The streets are almost all paved and the first buildings are going up at the country club-turned-mixed-use development at 126th and Pacific Streets.

Just over a year after crews tore down the clubhouse and cleared the land on the former Ironwood Country Club site, the developer of Sterling Ridge said the project’s first residents could be moving in as soon as this fall.

The development on the 153-acre site, which is expected to cost between $200 million and $250 million, will eventually include homes, condominiums, offices, restaurants, shops, a hotel, an assisted-living facility and a tri-faith religious center. Most of that won’t become a reality for several years, but Chip James, owner of Lockwood Development, said the first office space, the headquarters of Millard Refrigerated Services, is on track to be completed early next year.

Work is also under way on Temple Israel’s new synagogue, which will eventually be joined by a church for the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska and a mosque and study center for the American Institute of Islamic Studies and Culture.

Meantime, workers are finishing up the roads that run through the development. James said they’re running about a month behind schedule, in part because they had to get permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do some work on the lower areas of the property, an area that was once the links section of the golf course. A stoplight for an entry on Pacific Street should be delivered in July and work completed in August, he said.

Work on the $14.5 million Heritage Management Services assisted-living facility, which will include a memory care wing, will begin in the fall. Other projects, including several more houses, will likely get under way a few months later.

“Spring will be a busy time,” James said.

He said he expects to have more announcements coming soon about new office and retail tenants.