Developer proposes replacing Huffines Ridge hotel and high-rise offices with low-rise retail and offices

Developer representatives outlined a revision to the Huffines Ridge Planned Unit Development during a required neighborhood meeting for Franklin City, saying the proposal would replace previously approved high-rise office and a six-story hotel with two-story retail, restaurant and office buildings and surface parking along Carothers Parkway between Liberty Pike and McEwen Drive.

Jeff Roziak, a planner and landscape architect with Gamble Design Collaborative representing the developer GCI, said the site is already partially developed: a multifamily apartment complex occupies part of the property and the project previously included dedication of a roughly 10-acre park that contains the rehabilitated John Henry Carruthers House. "There is a multifamily apartment complex on the site that's built today and is open for business," Roziak said. He added: "The project also included…