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Design Review Committee praises preservation in Old Ice House hotel plan, questions visibility and materials
Summary
An applicant proposing partial demolition and a boutique hotel addition at the Old Ice House at 251 Second Avenue South won generally positive feedback from Franklin City’s Design Review Committee for preserving existing fabric, while committee members raised concerns about a visible egress tower, metal panels and massing.
Brandon Priddy, the applicant for the Old Ice House project at 251 Second Avenue South, presented plans to partially demolish a non‑contributing later addition and build a small boutique hotel on the site of the historic ice house.
The project would preserve about 80% of the existing building footprint while removing an altered, non‑historic portion currently occupied by a jiu‑jitsu studio and a metal-clad former chicken plant. Priddy said the proposal would replace higher‑occupancy uses with roughly 16–17 hotel units, which he described as generating lower and different peak parking demand than the current uses.
The committee’s staff reviewer, Emily (city historic preservation…
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