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Commission approves office allocation and parking relief for historic 888 Brandon with window‑profile condition
Summary
The commission approved converting upper floors of 850–870 Brannon (888 Brandon) to ~138,580 sq ft of office, exempting off‑site parking requirements, and required the sponsor to reexamine replacement window profiles to better match historic proportions.
The Planning Commission on May 27 approved a request to allocate approximately 138,580 square feet of office space at 850–870 Brannon Street (doing business as 888 Brandon) as part of an adaptive reuse of a historic early‑20th‑century building. The sponsor sought relief from an off‑site parking requirement (204 spaces) and described plans to invest in building systems and seek a LEED rating.
Staff recommended approval, noting high overall available office inventory citywide but favoring reuse of an architecturally significant building already listed on state and national historic registers. The city attorney and staff asked for a condition that the sponsor acknowledge potential future job‑housing linkage fees if new fee legislation becomes effective before the project's first building permit.
Labor representatives and building‐trade unions supported the reuse as a source of local construction jobs. Commissioners discussed historic window profiles and conditionally approved the project while asking the sponsor to review aluminum window options to achieve slimmer sightlines more consistent with the building’s historic steel profiles.
The motion to approve passed unanimously with a condition to revisit window details during final design.
