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Developer says light-industrial plan will fill market gap and create jobs
Summary
Tremont Group representative Tyler Thomas told the Planning and Zoning Commission that a 165,000–166,000-sq-ft shallow-bay flex building at 1610 Walnut would serve smaller local businesses, create jobs and is designed to be low-impact with sunken elevations and screening.
Tyler Thomas of Tremont Group argued at the March 10 meeting that a large but shallow-bay flex building at 1610 Walnut would respond to a demonstrated market shortage for smaller light-industrial space and would create local jobs.
Thomas said the project team had underbuilt the site relative to typical regional development and committed to measures intended to reduce neighborhood impacts, including sunken parking, retaining walls, a minimum six-foot masonry screening wall where appropriate and a list of 56 excluded uses that would bar automotive and other disruptive operations. "We are sunken in our parking areas approximately 12 feet below the road, meaning they will be well out of sight," Thomas said, adding the developer plans door-to-door outreach with neighbors before council review. He also noted the developer planned higher parking ratios aligned with expected tenants and predicted the project would attract medical-device, HVAC and other local-service firms.
