Here are plans for more downtown Rock Hill apartments, restaurants, women’s shelter.
Rock Hill apartments, restaurants, retail and a hotel have key decisions slated. So too does a women’s shelter.
The Rock Hill planning commission will meet virtually June 2. The commission will decide on several downtown projects and one farther north.
The decisions include:
▪ The Kinger Homes apartment project has a decision on major site plan approval. The 175 W. Main St. project, in front of the Wilson Street post office, is a four-story construction at more than 60,000 square feet. It would have 48 one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Access for the less than two-acre site will come off West Black and Johnston streets.
▪ The Exchange is up for major site plan approval. The former Good Motor Company site is almost six acres along Dave Lyle Boulevard, East White Street and Oakland Avenue.
Most of the existing buildings would be demolished. Three on East White would be renovated for more than 26,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space. Redeveloped property would create four, four-story buildings with 229 apartment units.
Submitted drawings show private street entrances off East White and Oakland. There’s a pocket park on the Oakland side and an amenity area on the Dave Lyle side. A public art piece would go at the corner of Dave Lyle and East White.
▪ A former home on West Main Street, across from the York County Family Court, may become a new women’s shelter. Truck of Love applied to rezone almost an acre there. Existing buildings on three parcels there would be renovated for the homeless shelter. The main building would be the shelter and smaller ones would provide office and meeting space. Tuesday’s meeting includes a public hearing.
City council will make the final call on rezoning.
▪ The owner of more than two acres at Celanese and Hilltop roads wants to rezone the site to allow a new restaurant. The property is across Celanese from Aldersgate UMC, not far from Rosewood Elementary School. Plans involve a new restaurant with alcohol sales. Submitted drawings show seating for 46 inside the new restaurant and a drive-thru surrounding it.
Two of the three parcels there are vacant. The other has a home on it. The restaurant would be a 2,200-square-foot single-story with frontage on Celanese but access off Hilltop. The property is across Hilltop from land annexed last fall for a new eye clinic. A public hearing will be held at Tuesday’s meeting.
City council will decide on rezoning.
▪ The Cambria Hotel project has sign approvals up for discussion. The planning commission will decide on plans for larger than typically allowed signs for the hotel, toward the top of the 72-foot building. The new hotel will open in University Center, near the downtown city sports and event center.
