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Developer proposes steakhouse with pocket park for Homewood City’s old police station site
Summary
Developer Mike Perron presented a concept to convert the long-vacant Homewood City police station parcel into a white-tablecloth steakhouse and a public pocket park; councilors signaled willingness to continue talks but did not commit to any sale or rezoning.
Mike Perron, a local developer, told the Homewood City Council on Feb. 2 that his team is proposing to demolish the long-vacant police station and build a privately operated steakhouse while reserving most of the site as a public pocket park.
The concept, introduced during the council’s new-business discussion, calls for the city to retain ownership of the park area while Perron’s group would pay for demolition, asbestos remediation and removal of underground tanks and put the remaining funds into escrow to pay for the park’s construction. Perron said the developers would not ask the city for tax or sales-tax incentives.
The proposal pairs a relatively small ground-floor restaurant footprint—Perron estimated the restaurant would occupy roughly 35% of the site—with landscaped public space, benches and…
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