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Developer pitches rapid‑deploy modular housing to house Milford’s incoming workforce
Summary
Logan Hill of Millstream told the Milford City Council his firm can build and operate 50–100 modular rental units in months and asked the city to explore a redevelopment agency (RDA) partnership and possible tax‑deferment tools to make infrastructure costs feasible.
Logan Hill, identified to council as a Millstream partner, presented a modular workforce‑housing model on June 16 and asked Milford officials to explore an RDA partnership to offset upfront development costs.
Hill said Millstream typically buys land, installs horizontal infrastructure and keeps the units as rentals. “We will buy the land…we will set up the horizontal developments, and then we will actually build the houses on‑site,” Hill said, adding the company’s units come furnished with washer/dryer and can be available for nightly, weekly or monthly stays. He estimated a build‑out time of “about four months” to ready a site and said the units can last “20, 25 years easy.”
Council members pressed Hill on scale and durability. Hill said his firm’s feasibility sweet spot is roughly 50 to 100 units on a single site; on a 21‑acre parcel near the hospital he said the firm could place 50–100 units and avoid dense clustering. A council member warned that city code requires curb, gutter, sidewalk and roads and that those infrastructure costs could be substantial.
On financing, Hill asked whether Milford would consider an RDA arrangement — effectively using future tax increment or other incentives to defer some horizontal‑development costs. Hill provided a preliminary horizontal‑infrastructure estimate in the low‑to‑mid hundreds of thousands and suggested $300,000 as a working figure if sewer easements and hookups were available. “If we can have help from the city on the development side, we would do everything else,” Hill said.
Council members recommended additional review by planning and zoning, asked staff to research state‑owned lots on the south end of town as a potential alternate site, and urged careful, phased consideration to avoid short‑term trailer‑park outcomes after a construction boom. Mayor Davis and staff agreed to follow up with the state about appraisals for the identified lots and to circulate additional information to the council.
