By Eric Curl
Jan. 24, 2020 – The Savannah Historic District Board of Review approved the plans on April 10, 2019, to construct a hotel at 110 Ann St. and apartment building at 111 Ann St., along with the the demolition of non-historic buildings at the sites.
The permit issued on Jan. 17, 2020 for 110 Ann was to demolish a one-story building that previously housed Johnstone Supply, located one block west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The project sites are located on the west end of downtown, just south of Yamacraw Village, the low-income housing community owned by the Housing Authority of Savannah, and immediately north of Chatham Area Transit’s shared bus station with Greyhound along Oglethorpe Avenue. The Union Mission homeless shelter and the Savannah Film Factory, a production facility with three sound Stages, are located immediately to the west.
The hotel at 110 Ann will be six stories and include 215 rooms, a roller rink, live music space and restaurant and lounge, according to the construction application and minutes from the review board’s meeting.
The permit for site at 111 Ann St. was issued on Jan. 17, 2020 for the demolition of a former service garage shed built in 1977, according to the property records. The six-story apartment building will include 232 units and mixed non-residential use at street level and two floors of underground parking and one level of above ground parking at the rear of the site, according to the construction application and meeting minutes.
The properties are owned by an LLC that shares an address with Flank, a New York-based development company that renovated Drayton Tower for use as a high-end condo complex, as described in this 2013 Savannah Morning News article.
The LLC purchased the properties for $6.5 million in June 2019, according to the property records.
The proposed buildings are part of the same developer’s larger development plan that includes the rehabilitation of buildings along MLK, which was approved at the historic review board’s meeting on Oct. 10, 2018.
