South Haven looking to add affordable housing at old manufacturing site

SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – South Haven is eyeing a former manufacturing site to build affordable housing despite its contamination with PFAS chemicals.

City Manager Kate Hosier says they have a real need for affordable housing and the five-and-a-half acre site would be ideal.

The S.E. Overton Company was on Elkenburg Street near Indiana Avenue from the early 1900s until it was sold in 1995 and the building was demolished during around 2015 because the roof caved in.

The state found PFAS in the groundwater in testing in 2023.