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Board approves conditional site-plan for 1025 Northern Boulevard, requires ARC review
Summary
The Village of Flower Hill Board of Trustees granted conditional approval to a site-plan to renovate a fire-damaged three‑story building at 1025 Northern Boulevard, converting the first floor to retail and retaining offices above, subject to Architectural Review Committee (ARC) review and minor clarifications on landscaping and parking.
The Village of Flower Hill Board of Trustees voted to conditionally approve a site-plan for 1025 Northern Boulevard that will renovate a fire-damaged three‑story office building into a retail ground floor with offices on the second and third floors.
Architects told the board the proposal preserves the existing exterior brick bearing walls, replaces failed internal steel columns and beams, rebuilds stairs and slightly adjusts interior floor plates to lower the retail grade "about 6 inches" for accessibility and display needs. "We're looking to renovate it and convert the 1st Floor into a retail space with offices on the 2nd And 3rd Floor," the project's architect said during the public hearing.
The design team said converting the first floor from office to retail reduces the parking requirement — 22 spaces for retail compared with 36 if the first floor remained office — and asserted the shared-parking easements for nearby properties provide sufficient capacity. Staff and trustees pressed the applicant on landscaping and whether hardscape could be softened; the architect said modest planting adjacent to the building is planned and that removing spaces would require a variance.
Trustees moved to approve the application "subject to the architect [ARC] review committee," and the motion passed after a second and roll-call votes in which Trustee Smith, Trustee Lewandowski and Trustee Dorkman recorded "Aye." The board directed ARC to review façade, landscape and final parking adjustments and required the applicant to submit the structural engineering details referenced in the presentation.
Next steps: ARC will review the final drawings and return recommendations to the board; the applicant said it would proceed with tenant identification after ARC sign-off.
