The sustainable features in the Village Deli design include: light-colored hardscaping covered parking, a cool roof, and solar energy. Another possible approach, to get the extra story of building height, would have been to add some income-restricted units to the mix. That’s what Costello and the team from Strauser Design Build have done, by choosing to add a package of sustainable design features, which satisfy the UDO incentive requirements. But Bloomington’s unified development ordinance (UDO) provides incentives that, if satisfied, can reward a developer with an extra story. Ordinarily the height of new construction in the zoning district-mixed-use downtown with a University Village downtown character overlay (MD-UV)-would be limited to three stories. The project was not controversial for plan commissioners, who gave it unanimous approval. So we could continue to provide your delicious pancakes, Brad, and continue to employ the staff that we have, that make our business work every day!” The ground floor will also have 2,700 square feet of restaurant space, which will be the Village Deli’s new home.īased on the preview of the project given at a mid-June plan commission lunch session, a possible timeline for completion of the project is August 2023.Īll other things being equal, that would have meant about a year-long Village Deli pancake void.īut Costello gave Wisler some welcome news: “Our current plan would be to relocate the Village Deli in another location.
The ground floor will include a 12-stall parking garage for the residential tenants, who will access it off the rear alley. Wisler and other plan commissioners had just heard a presentation on the proposal, which would build 25 apartments with a total of 29 bedrooms-11 studios, 11 1-bedroom, two 2-bedroom, and one 3-bedroom apartment. Wisler’s “meantime” is the period between the upcoming demolition of the one-story Village Deli building on Kirkwood Avenue and the re-opening of the breakfast joint on the ground floor of a new four-story residential project at the same spot. That was Bloomington plan commission president Brad Wisler’s lighthearted question to Village Deli owner Bob Costello, at the commission’s regular meeting on Monday. “Where am I supposed to get pancakes in the meantime?”
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