By Roland Murphy for AZBEX – BEXCLUSIVE
On a 7-0 vote, the Buckeye Planning and Zoning Commission has approved a site plan for 29SC Apartments, a 408-unit development planned for the SEC of 255th Avenue and MC 85. The 15.94-acre site had previously been platted as Roers at Buckeye 29.
According to the submitted narrative, the site was zoned Downtown Commercial in 2021. Multifamily development is permitted under the current zoning.
The proposed development is planned for 408 garden style apartments distributed across 15 buildings. The planned mix is 126 one-bedroom, 226 two-bedroom and 56 three-bedroom units. Sizes will range from 795SF-1,303SF, with an average unit size of 1,055SF. The total rentable square footage is 430.6KSF.
Planned amenities include a clubhouse with workstations for residents, conference spaces, a multi-use area and a fitness center. The development will also feature a pool and spa area, outdoor seating, a “tot lot” and flex space, and a 3KSF dog park.
The updated design included a flexible workspace in the clubhouse based on the developer’s demographic research that shows many future residents will work from home during at least part of the week. In addition to the clubhouse accommodation, a limited number of ground floor units are planned as “flex” spaces that can be used for live-work purposes.
The community is intended to be a walkable development, since it is expected many of the residents will walk to work in either the downtown core or the employment centers north and west of the location. According to the narrative, there will be two main pedestrian connection corridors, one south of the buildings along MC 85 and a second that allows residents to go east and west through the building breezeways and through the parking lots. “Allowing multiple pedestrian circulation patterns and circulation was a key part of the overall site plan development,” the narrative says.
29th Street Capital is the developer. The design firm is AO Architects (Architects Orange). Manhard Consulting is the civil engineer, and the landscape architect is Studio DPA.
