Planning and Zoning Recommends Apartment Measures to Council

The Planning and Zoning Commission recommended measures that would allow new apartments in Beachwood at Thursday's meeting.

Measures under consideration would allow  and 

Representatives from The NRP Group, LLC attended the meeting and gave a few more details about what they may propose to the city for a new apartment complex on an 8-acre parcel at Green Road and Chagrin Boulevard.

The property now houses Commerce Park Buildings I, II and III, three "deteriorating" office buildings that stand mostly vacant, developers noted. The Commerce Park property sold for $4.1 million in September to The NRP Group, LLC and Munsell Realty Advisors, LLC.

Most of the tenants, who occupied less than half of the buildings' combined 200,000 square feet, have relocated to other Beachwood sites.

The four-story apartment buildings would have an underground, heated parking garage and be arranged in a rectangle with a courtyard in the center.

City Planner George Smerigan told the Commission that the proposal would fit into the city's plan to pursue more mixed-use development and that it would make an "entry statement" at one of the first intersections people see as they drive into Beachwood on Chagrin Boulevard from the west.

The other apartment is the final building in the master site plan for

Council could consider these measures at their Feb. 6 meeting.