Delcrest Plaza ~ next door to Crown Center

Plans for Delcrest Plaza are still changing.  I photographed my laptop screen to get these two pictures when I attended the Planning Commission meeting via Zoom Wednesday evening.  I posted photos of what used to be there when it was being demolished in May, and I posted earlier plans in 2020.

Demolition north of the Crown Center

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 ~ from across the street ~ looking northwest

Saturday, May 1, 2021 ~ looking northeast ~ west section gone

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 ~ from the side entrance to Crown Center

Friday, May 7, 2021 ~ removing the rubble of the demolished building

My neighbor Sharon took this from her north-facing window of the Crown Center.

Added on Monday, May 10, 2021 ~ clearing the rubble will take a long, long time.

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.