New mixed-use apartment building downtown receives zoning variances for construction
A new mixed-use apartment building planned for downtown Kent is much closer to construction following approval of several variances from the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals Monday night. The board granted three variances to developer CollegeTown Kent LLC, a subsidiary of Cleveland-based Fairmount Properties, for 'Building C,' a mixed use retail and residential building planned for the southwest corner of the South DePeyster and Erie streets intersection. Board members cited the small size and unusual topography of the building site in granting three variances, which permit the new building to stand taller than city code allows and loosen requirements for how close the building is to the public right-of-way. Variances approved allow the …
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Parking for new downtown apartment building will rely on PARTA's transit center
The Kent Planning Commission signed off on the site plan for Fairmount Properties' Building C, a new mixed-used apartment building downtown, but not without talking about parking. The commission unanimously approved the project, but all four members said they were concerned about the parking arrangements. Adam Branscomb, project manager for Fairmount Properties, which will own the building, said both the residential and restaurant components of the building will rely primarily on PARTA's new Kent Central Gateway transit center and parking deck for tenants and restaurant customers. Branscomb said Bricco would have to make arrangements with PARTA for a valet service they are planning, and tenants also would have to make their own …
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James Vaughan
5:23 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I wish these plans, drawings etc were larger! Ever since all this development started I have been keenly interested; but the shortage of understandable visual presentation had been frustrating! I have heard the same complaint from many others. No one could figure out what and where the new bridge would be until construction started. The folks who provide the info already know and do not seem very… more ›