Plans for a roughly $232 million Downtown West mixed-use development moved forward Tuesday after the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority Board voted to approve the remaining $171 million in bonds for the project and a construction sales tax exemption.
The development by AHM Group aims to transform 12 acres of existing buildings and vacant land on both Locust Street and Washington Avenue just north of CityPark into more than 450 apartment units and tens of thousands of square feet of offices and retail.
“There’s a lot of opportunity in Downtown West,” said Kyle Howerton, a managing principal and partner with AHM Group. “There’s not a lot of other places that you can find an entire city block that’s vacant ground that we can redevelop.”…