Design Review Board recommends comments on 25‑acre Deerfield mixed‑use plan after detailed courtesy review

The City of Milton Design Review Board on Jan. 6 delivered detailed design feedback and a formal recommendation to staff on a courtesy review of the Deerfield Corporate Center, a proposed 25‑acre mixed‑use redevelopment near Webb Road, Morris Road and Deerfield Parkway.

Staff framed the proposal as an implementation of the Destination Deerfield subdistrict and described incentives intended to improve public amenities: an increase in usable open space from a baseline 10% up toward 20% for credits, trail and boardwalk connectivity, and a 2,500‑square‑foot civic shell that the applicant proposes to give the city "for a dollar a year," staff said. The site includes two existing six‑story office towers that are mostly vacant, staff added.

Developer representatives said the plan keeps much of the existing parking and landscape, preserves sewer easements and the lake on site, and adds mixed uses rather than a single corporate campus. Steve Rowe, a civil/site representative for the applicant, said the project would retain roughly 265,000 square feet of office and add "about 140 units of multifamily residential, another 10 loft units above some of the retail and…