Tucked away in the middle of Hinesville, a new affordable living community is underway. Builders, developers and city leaders broke ground last week on the planned Wisteria Gardens, a 96-unit apartment complex off Fairhope Lane. “I’m pumped for this project to get going,” said Matt Schaffer, president and chief operating officer of builder Varium Construction. “Everyone has been so helpful so far.” While about a third of the units will be available at market rates, about twothirds of the apartments are reserved for affordable housing. The project is backed by the Searles Foundation, which also developed Live Oak Villas in Midway. “It’s a beautiful property that we know is going to be top of class for what we do in affordable housing here in Georgia,” said Philip Searles, president of the Searles Foundation. Not long before the groundbreaking, the area was saturated with several inches of rain. However, the site did not flood and there was no effect on neighboring properties. Neighbors expressed concerns about flooding, but builders and developers were heartened — in more ways than one — over how the site handled a large rainfall in a short time. “Ten inches of rain in Atlanta, we’d be done for a month,” Schaffer said. “Here, there are machines moving right now.” Searles praised the work of local firm T.R. Long Engineering, which handled the civil engineering for the site. He acknowledged drainage was a top concern of the tract’s neighbors. “We had 10 inches of rain and no…
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