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Developers present preliminary North Essex Avenue mixed-use plan; panel raises design, loading and material concerns
Summary
Developers Tim Rubin and Aaron Miller presented a preliminary schematic for a PLCB storefront with four apartments above; the panel praised streetscape-sensitive elements but raised repeated concerns about the proposed corrugated metal siding, the handling of the historic bank entrance, truck loading geometry, and long-term bicycle parking. Presenters agreed to provide revised materials and engineering diagrams.
Tim Rubin and architect Aaron Miller presented a preliminary proposal for a mixed-use redevelopment at North Essex Avenue, explaining that the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) had interest in a ground-floor retail prototype and that the scheme would combine an existing two-story bank building with a new two-story addition to provide one retail/PLCB space and four apartments above.
Miller walked panelists through façade renderings that use brick pilasters, awnings and a set-back second floor. He said the design follows storefront proportions (30-inch sills, roughly 7-foot head heights) and uses pitched roof forms to articulate living spaces on the second floor. Presenters described a constraint that the store’s back-of-house shelving and racking…
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