POULSBO — Paul Mott, director of site acquisitions for apartment community builder Edward Rose & Sons, said a neighborhood his company proposed at Highway 305 and Bond Road nearly four years ago has not been forgotten.

“We got tied up with other projects,” Mott said. “There’s only so much we can do at one time.”

The neighborhood — 540 senior and family apartments on 46 acres, a community center, a park with pedestrian paths, a swimming pool, and a retail center — is proposed on 55 acres. Edward Rose & Sons owns the property; the project was approved by the City Council in 2011. At the time, it was estimated that the neighborhood would boost Poulsbo’s population by 10 percent.

Mott said company reps plan on returning to Poulsbo “probably around July” for a “final site plan approval.”

Edward Rose & Sons is a Michigan-based development and property management firm with apartment communities in more than a dozen states, mostly in the Midwest. It is building its first community in the west in Richland.

Because Edward Rose & Sons chose to go through Poulsbo’s master plan process, the developer  received a “density bonus” and the city had some say on open space preservation. Apartments will be clustered to provide more open space, some of which will be accessible to the public. The open space will include larger buffer zones along Dogfish Creek, a pedestrian trail and a public park.

City officials envision the neighborhood as being part of a “walkable community” — its trail will be part of the Urban Paths of Poulsbo plan, and the neighborhood is within a relatively short distance of the park and ride transit center being built on Viking Way, paths through Fish Park and sidewalks on Viking Avenue and Bond Road, and Little Valley Road to the 10th Avenue commercial area (a traffic signal at Bond and Big Valley/Little Valley Road is  proposed).

In 2013, Edward Rose & Sons contracted with Ecumen Associates, a Minnesota-based senior services company, to manage senior housing proposed to be built in the neighborhood.

Although the project was approved, a final site plan must still be submitted. “I would anticipate that we would be looking at another plan review first” before permits are issued, associate city planner Edie Berghoff said.

Poulsbo Mayor Becky Erickson said the company “still [has] some site work review and those kinds of activities that need to be done” before permits can be filed. She said she received an email from the company about a month ago, stating that it is moving forward with the project.

“We’re just waiting for them to come back to town,” Erickson said.