Developer shares plans for potential rental units in Kent’s South End

Grey Fox Capital released design concepts in August 2025 for the proposed housing on Mogadore Road in Kent. Image via Gray Fox Capital

Developer shares plans for potential rental units in Kent’s South End

- Wendy DiAlesandro

A proposed housing development near downtown Kent will be entirely rental units geared to empty nesters, young professionals and downsizers.

So said Jacob Shields, director of acquisitions for developer Grey Fox Capital, at a small Aug. 12 gathering at Hometown Bank, which owns the 17.6 acres GFC hopes to develop. The proposed development adds a new southern face to Kent’s historic South End, long known as the mother neighborhood of Kent: a place where immigrants and people of color, unwelcome in other parts of the city, could and did settle.

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