After enjoying the fully leased opening of his $24 million, 222-unit Level Urban Apartments last summer, developer Richard McKown is moving forward with plans to expand the project east and west.
Level, at NE 2 and Oklahoma Avenue, was McKown's first downtown project, and opened with a fitness center and Native Roots Market grocery on the first floor. He also said an announcement is pending for a restaurant to open in the last open ground floor storefront.
The next expansion involves an infill development just west of Level between two alleyways, the 2nd Street Lofts, and the Brownstones at Maywood Park.
The project, designed by Level architect Wade Scaramucci, calls for 96 units to be built among four floors topping a two-story parking “podium.”
Scaramucci said the design emphasizes the diversity of the area, which is surrounded by three very different styles of rental and for-sale housing.
“It has 17 different types of units, which is pretty unique considering it has (a total of) 96 units,” Scaramucci said. “So we're offering a lot of diversity. You want to provide people with private and public amenity. And real diversity comes with getting many different sorts of tenants.”
Scaramucci said the designs call for balconies that are offset from balconies of neighboring properties, and turn the alleyways into public spaces.
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