Two-story expansion will offer housing above popular downtown Pensacola brewery

The downtown Pensacola creating that currently houses The 5 Barrel brewery and taproom and Cask & Flights Wine Tasting Space could be expanded to include 24 residential units.

The Architectural Evaluation Board has allowed the developers to shift in advance with plans of introducing two supplemental stories to accommodate potential limited-expression rental and very long-term residential components to the web-site.

The façade of the making at 121 S. Palafox St. would transform drastically with massive windows together the frontage and historic type railings on the upper flooring.

The enhancement came in advance of the ARB in February 2020 with a approach to incorporate a next flooring for residential, but in additional scheduling, architect Scott Sallis mentioned the enhancement workforce has because shifted plans to increase one more degree.

“The major variance of program is a third level has been included,” he mentioned. “This is a quite unusual developing in the downtown main that has an present structure in location in the ground that can choose these hundreds up to a third ground.”

Less than the conceptual ideas, businesses would stay in area alongside Palafox frontage on the ground flooring, but the rear of the making would residence studio by means of two-bedroom sized household models. The next ground would have yet another 14 units in between about 650 and 1,500 sq. ft in sizing, and the third ground would have one more 10 models that are in between 860 square ft and 2,787 sq. ft.

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Sallis claimed the program was to begin with to make yet another cafe place on the second ground but that approach has given that improved to offer only household — both of those small-expression and extended-phrase — on the upper two floors.

Renderings show the rear of the developing would also undertake a big overhaul and would be where features like parking and the rental units’ entry would be positioned, off Palafox Street.

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The ARB unanimously accepted Sallis’ team relocating in advance with more last types of the improvement which will once more appear before the ARB. There is not still a timeline for the enhancement.

“This is a pretty fascinating undertaking, it was very remarkable whenever you brought it to us with two stories. … It is heading to be a excellent enhancement to downtown Pensacola and I feel you happen to be executing a great task with it,” ARB member Derek Salter mentioned.

The developing is the second Palafox Street web-site up for ARB acceptance in modern months, next a choice before this thirty day period not to let the old Dollarhide’s New music Retailer constructing to be demolished devoid of a substitute program in spot.

In that progress, operator Bobby Switzer required to demolish the constructing thanks to structural difficulties inside of and use the place as a holding garden for other construction going on at Switzer’s A single Palafox Position progress on the identical town block. The ARB — and then the Metropolis Council on charm previously this thirty day period — denied the demolition due to not getting at minimum a conceptual approach in place for what would arrive following in the space.

Emma Kennedy can be arrived at at [email protected] or 850-480-6979.

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