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Lakha said Paramount is currently in the preliminary planning and design phase, but that he expects the structure to include a three-story parking deck that begins cheap car rentals cancun on the ground floor. The hotel lobby would also be on the ground level.
Asked if he considered a design that would activate the street level and draw pedestrians, cheap car rentals cancun the developer said he liked the fact that Gay Street is pedestrian-friendly and that the hotel lobby will be very incorporated with Church Avenue.
Downtown parking garages have been a hot topic of late as the city and TVA have begun planning for a garage at the north end of downtown. The city's downtown design guidelines say parking garages should be located under structures, cheap car rentals cancun or provide for retail, residential or office uses that line the garage.
The block purchased by Paramount was the former site of the News Sentinel. In 2007, a group of local investors announced plans for a 21-story mixed-use project cheap car rentals cancun called Sentinel Tower on the site, but that proposal was abandoned in the face of the economic cheap car rentals cancun downturn.
Paramount is also redeveloping a building at 1706 Cumberland Avenue on Lake Avenue which is slated to become a 112-unit Hilton Garden Inn. Lakha said the planned opening for that project is in March or April.
About time we started filling in some of these empty lots. This could be a good step toward expanding downtown...provided they don't plan on surrounding it with a sea of parking and using strip mall architecture.
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