City, neighbors support townhouse project
Published: Tue, Jul. 22, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Tue, Jul. 22, 2008 05:39AM
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closeDURHAM -- A townhouse project for the former McPherson Hospital parking lot won approval from the city's design-review team Monday.
Probably more important, it already had approval from its prospective neighbors in Trinity Park.
"Everyone's happy," said Kimberly Isley, whose home faces the site at Watts and Lamond streets, near Duke University's East Campus.
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In 2007, neighborhood opposition scuttled a plan for a 48-unit condominium project for the same 0.8-acre property.
The new project, tentatively called McPherson Townhomes, calls for 13 four-floor units in a brownstone-like style.
"It should feel like it really belongs in there," said architect Joe Stein.
"This is great fit," Isley said Monday. "In scale, massing, the number of units, it'll be a nice fit for the neighborhood."
Isley and other residents in southern Trinity Park met to look at the plans last week.
"Everybody had very positive comments," she said. "I haven't heard anything negative."
On Monday, Stein and landscape architect Dan Jewell presented project drawings to the Design District Review Team, which reviews plans in areas of Durham under special architectural and preservation regulations.
The Townhomes developer is Lou Goetz of Durham, who bought the site in 2006.
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