Plan Commission backs PD for Glenville warehouse, will forward recommendation to City Council

The Richardson City Plan Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend approval of Zoning File 25-09, a Planned Development allowing a 42- to 45-foot office/warehouse at the southeast corner of Glenville and Greenville.

The project site is 8.3 acres and currently contains a roughly 70,000-square-foot, two-story office building constructed in 1996, which staff said has been occupied by telecommunications tenants in the past and was vacated by AT&T in 2022. Miss Peters of the city planning staff summarized the request as a rezoning from I-M-1 Industrial to a PD for I-M-1 uses with exceptions to the single-story 25-foot height limitation and identified proposed conditions including a 42–45-foot maximum height, an earthen berm and evergreen shrub row, and an 8-foot masonry screening wall adjacent to the truck court.

Todd Marchesani of Box Investment Group, the applicant, told commissioners the existing building requires “millions and millions of dollars of deferred maintenance” and presented the PD as a way to deliver “office-showroom and warehouse” product Richardson lacks. Marchesani said the developer…