'Member the laundromat at the NE corner of Empire and Rogers? Gonna be "mixed use," which means they're going to get as many rental units as they can out of the outdated zoning. The housing advocate in me has to remind Q readers that this could have been a larger building with 30% or more apartments renting below market (i.e. "affordable"), but NIMBY Attacktivist Alicia Boyd led the call to make sure that wouldn't happen. So...look for some unaffordable units marketed as "luxury." Could be that this leads the way to a slew of development, or...the big money will simply wait til it can build what it wants. Needless to say in the meantime those fast food places are paying the tax bills...
More from your probably-not-so-good-friends at YIMBY.
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Thank you AB, MTOPP, and "Flower Lovers". Way to go--keep Empire sh*tty!
Smart money will wait and assemble multiple parcels or use existing big lots for large buildings with luxury and "affordable" units through the eventually-to-be approved new zoning.
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