Community Assets: Jim and Nancy Shelley do what needs doing in Bellevue
The couple's vision led to the Yorkshire subdivision, the arts center's theater, food and clothing pantries and Bellevue's first Habitat home.
Some people say somebody ought to do something. Jim and Nancy Shelley do it. Their habit of spotting a need and finding a solution helped give Bellevue a modern community theater, a food pantry, a clothing pantry and its first Habitat for Humanity home, and helped the Bellevue Ministerial Association organize its aid to families.
It started with land. In August 1992 the Shelleys bought 110 acres from County Road 308 around the former France Stone Co. quarry, north of U.S. 20 and east of the Bellevue Society for the Arts on Maple Street. They saw a shortage of good building lots in Bellevue and developed Yorkshire, the city’s first new residential subdivision in many years. Jim Shelley said it is now nearly sold out.
Learn about Habitat at Habitat for Humanity. More Community Assets: Laurie Daniel and the Giving Tree. See also the BSA stage. More in Community.