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Council hears developer's new proposal for Grandview Ave.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 12:25 PM
By ALAN FROMAN
ThisWeek Staff Writer
Metropolitan Holdings LLC has filed with the city a proposal for a revised development plan for the property it owns at the corner of Grandview and Haines avenues.
The request, which would have to be approved by both the planning commission and city council, would require a new Planned Unit Development zoning to replace the one council approved in 2007 when Metropolitan Holdings submitted its original plan for the property.
The project council approved by a 4-2 vote in 2007 would have been a four-story mixed use commercial/residential building with more than 7,000 square feet of retail use on the first floor and a total of 24 residential units on the stories above.
At Monday's city council meeting, Metropolitan Holdings President Matt Vekasy said the current economic conditions made that plan unworkable.
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Instead, the developer is now proposing to cosmetically rehabilitate the interior and exterior of the existing eight units on the property and to develop three new carriage houses at the rear of the site.
The eight existing units are housed in two buildings on the site.
The new carriage houses would add five residential units to the development and provide 17 garage spaces, according to a written overview of the project from Metropolitan that was included in council's packet for Monday's meeting.
Two of the carriage houses would contain two one-bedroom units over six garage spaces. Each of those condominiums would have an attached garage and 820 square feet of living space.
The other carriage house would contain one three-bedroom unit over five garage spaces. That unit would have an attached two car garage and 1,346 square feet of living space.
FYI -
http://www.columbusunderground.com/feeling-the-crush-some-inner-suburbs-build-upward#63264
Initially the project was suppose to be 6-7 stories, then downgraded to 4 stories in 2007, now all of that has been scrapped and are going to rehab the existing structures and build a new carriage houses in the back.
Not the best of news, but at least they are going to fix up the existing buildings.
Now if someone would buy the Spencer Research building, level it, and build 2 or 3 story mixed use building I'd by happy.
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