The Alpharetta City Council has approved a developer’s proposal for “Downtown Main,” a mixed-use project that will bring a brewery, along with commercial space and residences, to a 12.9-acre site at South Main Street and Devore Road.
Besides the 25,000-square-foot craft brewery, the Duke Land Group project will have 29,350 square feet of stores and restaurants, 61,500 square feet of offices, 68 for-sale townhouses and detached dwellings and 129 rental units – reductions from the developer’s original request for 78 townhouses and 200 apartments.
Intended to replace an aging strip shopping center, Downtown Main came to the Council with a recommendation for denial from the city Planning Commission.
The commission voted 6-1 against the project Dec. 1 after residents voiced concerns about density, apartments, traffic and the many variances to the downtown code that the developer was seeking, according to a staff report.
On Jan. 10, Duke provided a revised site plan that sought to address those concerns – dropping plans for 50 condominium units, and increasing the amount of civic/amenity space to 2.63 acres from 2.41 acres, and withdrawing a request for increased building height and façade length, among other changes.
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