Thursday, August 20, 2020

Delcrest Plaza redevelopment plans

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The Planning Commission heard their proposal for a combination hotel and apartment development, but parking plans need improvement.  A hotel is shown in blue, and apartments are in purple.  That green in the middle is a dog park, with the Crown Center parking lot at bottom right.

This is an aerial view of how that corner looks right now.  Oops!  As I kept reading the comments on NextDoor, our neighborhood connection, I found more, including updated drawings.

The planning documents say there will be 29 studio, 102 one-bedroom, and 29 two-bedroom apartments.   The 5-story hotel will be an Element brand, by Westin.  They are geared towards longer stays, and include kitchenettes, etc.  Now the seven-story apartment buildings are along Delmar, in blue and green at the top, and the eight-story hotel is in red.

The designs look totally different to me, and the parking situation is much more evident in this illustration.  This is exciting, but I'm much more interested in when we'll be able to start construction on the new Crown Center apartments.  The building along the bottom of this last view is where I live, and it will come down when they finish our new building.  Construction was supposed to start in June, but was delayed because of the pandemic lockdown.  Hopefully before the end of this year, they say.

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