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1. Project Narrative –
The project proposed, West Babcock Apartments, for 812/814 W Babcock Ave. and 818 W Babcock
Ave. is a 5-story mixed use building comprised of 45 rented apartments, a retail storefront at the
corner of W Babcock Ave. and S 9th Ave., a parking garage with both standard and mechanized
parking accessed of the alley, and amenity spaces to support resident life.
The site is zoned B-2M and the project considers the future development potential of the area
attempting to model good urban development. Storefront block frontage has been assigned to the
W Babcock frontage to build the potential for continuity of commercial use that has begun to both
the east and west. S 9th Ave has been designated as a landscape frontage in recognition of the
transitional character to the residential neighborhood and zoning to the south. Three ground level
units with stoops and a secondary residential lobby support this transition between zoning and
focuses on the human and pedestrian scale as the new building meets the public realm.