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Design review committee conditions Berry Global parking expansions on perimeter trees and landscape islands

5886296 · April 22, 2025
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Berry Global sought to renovate and expand two parking areas near its Jacobsville plant. The committee approved a motion requiring landscape islands and perimeter trees for any newly paved parking areas; Berry plans to seek variances for interior islands and continue site review with city engineering and advisory boards.

The Evansville City Design Review Committee on April 22 weighed and conditioned a proposal by Berry Global to renovate and expand two parking areas that serve its Jacobsville plant.

Adrian Shemeid, injection molding engineering manager at Berry, and Kevin Lascher of Morley and Associates presented plans to update parking east and north of the plant, improve entrance control and perimeter fencing, and add landscaping along perimeter streets. Lascher described the work as a renovation and an expansion that would add parking in previously green-space or vacated-street areas.

Lascher and Berry representatives said their current proposal would increase the north lots from about 370 existing spaces to about 483 (an increase of roughly 113 spaces) and the east lots…

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