A proposal more than a year in the works for an apartment 
tower along the Central Canal could be nearing a groundbreaking.
Valparaiso-based Investment Property Advisors is scheduled to make its pitch for the project to the Metropolitan
Development Commission on Wednesday (April 18). In a bid to win support from planners and neighbors, the developers agreed
to reduce the tower portion of the project from 26 stories to 10, and the total number of apartment units from 485 to 293.
The project also calls for 236 parking spaces, down from 434, and 10,800 square feet of office or retail space, double the
space originally proposed. Investment Property Advisors also agreed to a design with less stucco (EIFS) and more brick, along
with a larger green roof than the original proposal. The project would be built
on two adjoining parcels along Ninth Street between Senate Avenue and the Central Canal. The developers hope to begin construction
in the fall, which would allow the first residents to move in by summer 2014. The apartments would be marketed to students.
The architect is Ratio.
Here are a few of our previous stories on the project:
Developer plans 26-story tower along canal
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Height and density mean feet on the street, busy shops and eating/drinking places, less commuting by car. What part of this don't they get?
And seriously Ratio, can you not come up with anything different than boxes of glass with cantilevered overhangs above them? Diversity much?
Oops, sorry. Change takes commitment and vision. Change does not necessarily equal improvement, either. Change for the sake of change is not better. So what's your plan to "change" DMD? First, take all the politics out of it and let professionals (planners) do their job without dictating who/what/where is supposed to win. Maybe then the City could keep some of the good ones from defecting in frustration to private firms where they at least get better compensation even if they do have to follow company dictates.