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Home
Happy at
Home
By Amanda Wilson
There’s nothing like a quarantine to make one reassess
what home really means. Contrary to the old adage
which dismisses sentimentality, home is so much more
than where you hang your hat. The recent stay-at-home
mandate reinforced the quite literal security of home.
When done right, home is a comfort, a place where love
abides and families flourish. And, if you’re really lucky,
home is also a place of beauty and fun where you don’t
mind being confined. Vale View, Stonebridge, and The
Brooks at Vale Park are creating housing fit to call home.
Home
has served Valparaiso and Porter County, from Chamber
Valparaiso has been home to Wayne Enterprises CEO
Matt Welter’s family since his great-grandparents
graduated from Valparaiso University. Each generation
leadership to rotary club volunteering. Welter is
continuing his family’s proud legacy of enriching his
hometown by providing luxury apartments in downtown
Valparaiso. “People truly care about Valparaiso, and
about making it bigger and better for everyone,” he says.
“We know we have it good here. We want to give back.”
Vale View ensures that its tenants and residents can
have it good too, with the type of apartments one
would typically expect in the Chicago Gold Coast
neighborhood. The comforts of home at Vale View
include underground parking space for every resident,
with an elevator that takes you directly to your apartment
courtesy of a personal elevator fob. The elevator takes
you into your foyer with huge double doors that open
into your living space. Nothing is cookie-cutter at Vale
View: from the concrete-poured floors to the 10.5-foot
ceilings, the built-in grill on the 160 square-foot patio to
the 12 to 14 foot kitchen island. Even the Delta fixtures
are ordered direct from the manufacturer.
Vale View (260 Franklin St) is the result of a mutual dream
and teamwork from Matt Welter and his father, Wayne.
“We wanted to continue to help Valparaiso grow. Yes, it’s
a capital venture, but it’s also about giving back to the
community that gave so much to us. It’s about adding
value to the community and improving Valparaiso as a
whole. It’s something to be proud of. If I can make the
property nicer, it puts the onus on the people around
me to improve their property. Property health is directly
connected to the happiness of the tenants.” Happiness is
a high-end living space enhanced by onsite services and
goods in leased commercial space, including new Valpo
Chamber member, Ella Jayms, on the first floor of Vale
View. “Once we got the lease in place, we built out how
our tenants desired. We put some of our own money into
it. What’s good for them is good for us, because we’re in
it for the long haul.”
Vale View is the first commercial user of bifacial solar
panels in all of Indiana. Most solar panels produce >>
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