Apartments planned for Uptown site

More housing is on the drawing boards for Uptown.

The site of Cheapo Records is scheduled to be purchased by CPM Cos. in the fall in order to make way for a six story residential building that would feature apartments along with retail and office space.

20,000 square feet of retail space is planned for the ground floor (likely to house a restaurant among other retail tenants) and 5,000 square feet of office space is planned for the second level. At the moment the exact number of apartment units planned for the project has yet to be disclosed.

And for all those who love Cheapo there is no need to worry about them disappearing. Currently they're currently looking for a new location within the neighborhood to move to once their lease expires in August.

ESG Architects

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Above: Cheapo's Uptown location. The Walkway luxury apartments are located directly behind the site.

The project would be directly next to The Walkway, a 92 unit luxury (and when we say luxury we mean LUXURY) apartment building that opened last year. It also would be blocks away from the new condominium project announced last week by Graves Hospitality.

ESG Architects is behind the design of the project. It features what appears to be a gold, grey, and white color scheme. At the each corner there are seven story "end caps" that feature large balconies. It appears that almost all the units in the building would have a balcony.

If all goes according to plan CPM hopes to close on the site in the fall and have construction underway by February 2016.