By Eric Curl
April 23, 2024 – During a special called meeting on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Planning Commission will consider Foram Group’s petition to rezone 1.38 acres at East Broad and East Gwinnett streets to accommodate a proposed 4-story, 185-unit mixed-use apartment complex. Staff is recommending approval, but with multiple conditions and proposed modifications concerning the plan. The conditions include reducing the maximum number of units from 185 to 138.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. at 112 E State St and can be accessed remotely by registering via the MPC’s homepage.
The rezoning petition will also return to the Savannah City Council on Thursday, following the MPC’s recommendation. The city council had remanded the petition to the MPC at a previous meeting, after initially bypassing the advisory body’s review.
Located in an area listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Eastside-Meadows-Collinsville Historic District, the site includes a now vacant lot at 810 East Broad St. where the Faith on the Move Ministries church was demolished in 2021, along with currently affordable housing that would be demolished to make way for the project, as previously reported.
The Foram Group is behind the long stalled Starland Village mixed-use development in Savannah’s Thomas Square Streetcar Historic District on a two-block stretch of Bull Street. The developer recently completed the stalled demolition of a school building at the site after demolition led to the power outage last July, when a large portion of the structure collapsed onto power lines and the adjacent lane (watch video), as previously reported. The delayed demolition resumed earlier this month and the building debris that had remained at the site since last summer has now been removed.
Foram is also planning to renovate the historic downtown Savannah building that previously housed the 24e Design Co, according to plans submitted last year, as previously reported. The plan involves the removal of the roof structure and reducing the height of the second floor to add the third story rooftop addition, as approved by the Savannah Historic District Board of Review last May.
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