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Engineer James Rotondo lays out the plan.
A plan to bring new life to a long-shuttered industrial complex won another approval Wednesday night, with an aim for completion in 2 years.
The approval came at the monthly meeting of the City Plan Commission, in City Hall Wednesday evening.
The commission approved a site plan review for a proposal to build a mixed-use development at the complex of five brick buildings, at the north end of State Street in the Goatville neighborhood.
Four of the buildings will be demolished. The fifth, facing south, will be renovated as offices and retail space. Behind, developers will build a complex of apartments and townhouses — 235 residential units all together.
Ken Friedrichsen, of Post Road Residential, the development company, said the building will take another six months to design, then 18 months to construct.
He said he doesn’t know yet what will go in the retail space. The developers have had interest from a coffee shop among other things.
Friedrichsen declined to say how much the project will cost.
The next step, after completing the design, is securing a building permit.