Earlier this week Avondale Estates met for the first time in months with representatives from Euramex Management, the developer that’s owned 15 downtown acres, including the old Fenner-Dunlop, site for about two years.
According to Mayor Jonathan Elmore, Euramex presented brand new preliminary drawings for their property. These included about 400 apartments, two dozen town homes, and four restaurants of about 2400-2500 square feet, two of them stand alone and the other two on the ground floor of apartments.
The Euramex drawings did not include four acres the city will eventually own and now plans to develop separately. It also didn’t include a grocery, a sticking point between the two sides. Euramex has previously favored a grocery as the development’s “magnet,” while Avondale prefers a town green.
“These are by far the best schemes they’ve put before us,” said Elmore, an architect by profession. “Are they perfect? No. But for the first time they showed some mixed use, and for us it’s heading in the right direction.”
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