PORT LA TOUR, N.S. — While there may not be any educational music videos playing, there’s a good chance a happy dance will be performed when an affordable housing project in Shelburne County is completed later this year., a partnership between Seatle investor Robert Pinkley, local general contractor Morgon Nickerson and his father Jeff Nickerson, have their first affordable housing project about 75 percent completed.
“We plan is to develop affordable housing in this end of the province, southwest Nova Scotia. This is our first project,” says Jeff Nickerson. “We’re trying to get the word out that we’re around and that we’re looking for properties. We’re trying our best to make it as affordable as possible. That’s key.”
Jeff Nickerson stands inside one of the apartments under construction at the former Port LaTour Consolidated Elementary School in Shelburne County. Kathy Johnson photo Schoolhouse Rocks already has its sights set on several other unused existing structures in the region, including the former Amirault’s Hill School in Yarmouth County, which is similar to the former Port LaTour school and is still repairable.
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