The Board of Adjustment approved a variance allowing a four‑story mixed‑use building at 408 Adams Street that will provide ground‑floor commercial space and approximately 40 residential units intended for teachers, firefighters and police.

Rishon Figures, owner and principal of Figures Construction & Development, said the project passed Architectural Review Board review and that the team adjusted plans after community charrettes to provide about 55 parking spaces to serve both the project and neighborhood overflow. Figures said the school board participated in planning, received half of the property's sale proceeds and that the school’s football field will be moved but preserved within the larger parcel arrangement.

Neighbors raised concerns about traffic, parking and whether the new structure would encroach on areas historically used by schoolchildren. City staff explained the lot was created through a land swap and that the proposed fronting structure will face Congress Street with parking to the north; future residential houses behind the project are planned as a second phase to buffer the neighborhood from the nearby Gulf Distributing site.

A motion to approve the application "for findings of fact" received a second and passed by voice vote; the application was approved as presented.