HERE Champaign, LLC has applied to build a 16-story apartment building at 308-312 East Green St. The building would be on the corner of Fourth and Green street, in the space that IHOP and Campus Liquor currently occupy.
According to Champaign County’s project description, the building is proposed to have 11 residential floors, containing 143 residential student housing units, a fitness room, an outdoor terrace and an integrated, three-level automated parking garage, which will contain more than 254 parking spaces.
On-site parking will contain 14 conventional parking spaces and over 240 automated parking garage spaces. Access to parking will be limited to Fourth street.
People will be restricted from the car vault, which will be located on the second, third and fourth floors. The car vault will eliminate the need for space between cars because people will not be entering and exiting their vehicles. Parking ramps will also be eliminated.
The project will also provide landscaping on the immediately adjacent portion of Boneyard Creek, along with an expansive glass wall to give the building’s lobby and the retail spaces a direct, physical and visual connection to both Green and Fourth streets, according to the project description.
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Lorrie Pearson, of the Champaign Planning Department, said the department received a complete application for the project on April 2. The public hearing for the application is scheduled for May 1 at 4 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 102 N. Neil St.
If the proposal is approved, HERE plans to break ground on October 7, 2013, according to the project description.
Other apartment building projects in Champaign have recently been announced, including JSM Development’s hotel and apartment complex in Parking Lot J, near the corner of Green and Sixth Streets,and Larson Company’s five-story building, set to occupy the space that White Horse Inn and Garcia’s Pizza In A Pan occupied. A 14-story building constructed by Bankier Apartments will also be built in the spot which is now occupied by Gameday Spirit, Hair Benders, Beri Frozen Yogurt and Roll Model.
