Business View Civil and Municipal | September 2022

146 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 would be about three per month, which is pretty typical, but with the type of market we are in and the demand for apartments, it’s been crazy,” Sweeney adds. “We still get calls and we have waiting lists for all our apartments. The building is 100 percent full.” On the retail side, the complex has a range of shops that are meeting the needs of Lancaster residents and tourists alike. There’s 716 Athletics for children and teens to purchase athletic wear and equipment, a family-run bakery, handmade bath goods store, hometown coffee shop and deli, a well-stocked wine bar, and a third- generation jeweler. Five of the six shops are women-owned businesses, and they have already proven quite successful. “The Bathe Store had so many people that they’re actually running low on some products, so she has to start creating again,” Sweeney exclaims. “It’s been a great problem to have. They are very surprised by how much demand they are seeing. They’re doing phenomenal.” Then there’s Glassco Management, which has recently embarked on a three-phase project to bring multi-use housing to the community. Phase one broke ground last March and is already up and running. The building is a 27,000 square-foot apartment complex that includes 18 units, as well as six retail spaces below. Seventeen of the units are traditional apartments, with the remaining unit being used as a short term rental. One of the traditional apartments is ADA compliant. “People that come in for temporary stays can be comfortable there,” says Tom Sweeney, the project’s developer. “They have all of the comforts of home, the place is fully furnished with everything you would need. It has a full kitchen and all the facilities to cook and everything you need to live there.” When the short-term rental unit hit the market it booked up instantly for three months straight, and the traditional apartments filled up in six weeks’ time. “We thought the stabilization rate