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Design refinements sought for hotel and parking structure at 230 Franklin Road; DRC stresses facade materials, canopy scale and hiding rooftop parking
Summary
Design teams returned to the DRC with refinements to the hotel, courtyard staircase and a new parking garage on the factory campus at 230 Franklin Road; staff and commissioners requested brick-primary facades, refined canopy proportions and measures to conceal rooftop parking from Franklin Road.
Developers and their design team presented updated schematic designs for a proposed hotel and a new parking structure at 230 Franklin Road (the factory campus). The packet included refinements to courtyard stair massing, a simplified portico/drive-through canopy and multiple parking-garage facade options exploring brick, architectural metal and concrete treatments.
Preservation staff reminded the DRC that the Central Franklin Overlay and the zoning facade standards favor brick or natural stone as the primary facade material and allow architectural metal or concrete only as accents (generally up to 25%). "The…
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