Gorman & Company Opens The Post at Fort Whipple, 103 Veterans Apartments in Prescott

Northern Arizona has a new home for veterans, and it sits on one of the state’s most historic pieces of ground. Gorman & Company, working with U.S.VETS, has opened The Post at Fort Whipple, 103 affordable, permanent-supportive apartments for veterans on the Northern Arizona VA Health Care System campus in Prescott. The grand opening was celebrated on October 2, with Governor Katie Hobbs joining the U.S.VETS and Gorman teams, and AZBEX included the completion in its October 9 project roundup.

The project is two developments in one. Six officers’ quarters from the early 1900s were adapted into 23 apartments, and a new four-story building next to them adds 80 more. The Daily Courier reported during construction that the new building is all one-bedroom units, eight of the historic apartments are two-bedroom, and the projected cost was about $39 million. The Arizona Department of Housing contributed $22 million, including $19 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and $3 million in gap financing, according to AZBEX. The sources do not name an architect or general contractor.

The historic side of the story is just as notable. Fort Whipple is a National Historic Landmark, and the officers’ quarters were built between 1904 and 1906. The National Preservation Partners Network wrote last month that a compressed Section 106 review, with the State Historic Preservation Office, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the VA, and the Yavapai Prescott Tribe working through the agreement in real time, moved the project from an adverse effect finding to an executed programmatic agreement in under 60 days, which let the developer lock in its financing. The same review helped the team maximize the unit count while committing to long-term stewardship of the six historic buildings, and the network noted the project would be the only veterans housing serving the rural and tribal communities of northern Arizona.

Why it matters to JFN

A project like The Post asks two very different things of the plumbing and mechanical trades at the same time. The new four-story building is familiar multifamily work: stacked one-bedroom plans, repeated wet walls, and a central domestic hot water approach. The 1904 to 1906 quarters are the opposite. Every supply line, drain, vent, and piece of mechanical equipment has to be threaded through century-old framing and masonry without disturbing the character a programmatic agreement was written to protect, and the result still has to meet modern code and accessibility standards. We have built across Arizona for nearly three decades, including senior and assisted living communities, and we admire teams that take on adaptive reuse of this caliber. A $22 million state commitment to supportive housing on a federal campus is also a healthy signal that housing for the people who served is being built, and built well, in our state.

Sources: AZBEX Arizona Projects, October 9, 2026; Office of the Arizona Governor, October 2, 2026; National Preservation Partners Network via the National Trust for Historic Preservation, September 28, 2026; The Daily Courier, January 7, 2025