NEWS - Economic Development

By Ted Carter
SBJ.com Staff

A rezoning that won approval from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Planning Commission cleared the way for a mixed-use development on East Broad Street last week.

Developer East Broad Market LLC wants to build a retail, residential and office complex on 1.6 acres fronting East Broad between 38th and 39th avenues. To accommodate plans for the development, dubbed East Broad Lofts, the MPC’s land-use policy board rezoned about 14 parcels that make up the 1.6 acres from residential and business to Planned Unit Development.

The parcels are now either vacant or in commercial use.

The Planning Unit Development Zoning enables East Broad Market LLC to build multi-family units on East Broad Street. The “PUD classification will also encourage flexibility, diversity and integration of uses and development standards that would otherwise not be allowed by the zoning ordinance,” a policy analysis by the planning agency states.

A concept site plan presented by managing partner Bob Isaacson specifies 20,000 square feet of office and retail fronting East Broad Street along with 46 residential units. Those units would be adjacent to 36 multi-family units.

That portion of the project would be sandwiched between 14,000 square feet of office/retail to the south and the office/retail area to the north.

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