Hunter
02/28/23
Developers have begun demolition on vacant apartment buildings, apartments, and commercial space on the site that will feature a student apartment complex in Iowa City.
The Press-Citizen says the project, called Scannell Riverfront West, encompasses most of the land east of Olive Street between the University of Iowa parking lot on Myrtle Avenue and the Iowa Interstate Railroad. The development team fenced off the property late last year but demolition has just begun.
The former Kum & Go on Riverside Drive sat on the site before it built a new location south of the train tracks.
The building permit applications describe the project as a 196,466-square-foot, 291-unit market-rate student housing complex with a parking garage.
The developer, Scannell Properties, and the City have yet to come to an agreement on how to complete the development’s requirements for affordable housing. Scannell can either make it part of the complex, build an additional property on site, locate it in a different part of the city, or pay a fee to the city’s affordable housing fund.