From SA Heron- A glimpse at west downtown in 10 years
In a recent interview, Craig and Jensen described two to four multifamily developments, with an average of 250 units per project, beginning in the next two years. Consider this to be the first phase. Do the math: That could be as much as 1,000 apartments populating west downtown, on land west of North Main Avenue, in the near future.
Jensen says the company plans to break ground on the first housing development “within about a year.”
Craig and Jensen said
the company prefers projects that rise more than five stories—more of the taller, steel-and-concrete variety than the shorter, wood-framed structures that have predominately been built during the downtown area’s revitalization the last decade—most with retail space. Seems like a no-brainer to have retail, but it’s not. See 120 Ninth Street or the Encore SoFlo as examples of developments that are strictly apartments.
“Everything will have some sort of a (street) activation component,” Jensen said. “Just because we’re describing this as a big push of residential space, a lot of these projects will be mixed-use in nature.”
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