Just off campus: ‘Favorably received’
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After years of squabbling and legal battles with breakaway property owner Jimmy Davidson, coupled with recent weeks of uncertainty, Girard Park residents finally got to hear and see plans for an apartment complex planned for attorney Davidson’s 4.1-acre tract at the Girard Park Drive/Hospital Drive intersection that will benefit the expansion needs of adjacent Lafayette General Medical Center.
At a Wednesday-night meeting at the Petroleum Club, neighbors saw architectural renderings depicting a two-phase development on the property that includes a 135-slot parking lot in the rear that will only be accessible via Hospital Drive (hence virtually invisible from the neighborhood) as well as the apartment complex comprising two four-story buildings (parking for the complex will be beneath the buildings on the ground level).
The land is under contract for purchase and will be developed by the Dwight Andrus Co., a four-generation real-estate development firm with deep and respected roots in the Hub City. Renderings for the project depict an attractive, leafy development with modern stucco-and-metal buildings with balconies. The developers hope to incorporate a pond in the center of the housing development that will connect via an underground aqueduct with the lake at Girard Park.
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