Mystery tower proposed
Downtown News reports that Westside-based McGregor Company submitted something of a placeholder tower to the CRA last week. Few details are offered other than it will be tall and mixed-use.
61-story tower proposed
The McGregor Company is in the early stage of work on a 61-story, mixed-use development near Eighth Street and Grand Avenue. The company brought the project before the Community Redevelopment Agency last Thursday.
Though officials noted that designs could change, initial plans call for 225 condominium units, 200 hotel rooms, 386 parking spaces, 30,000 square feet of retail and 32,000 square feet of restaurant or bar space. The development would rise on the north side of Eighth Street, between Hope Street and Grand Avenue, where a 65-space surface parking lot and a four-story parking structure now sit.
Nearby Park Fifth — another planned mixed-use project — works out to about 10.8 feet per floor, which would place the height of our mystery tower somewhere around 660 feet.
