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The former Christ Reformed Church at 12th Avenue and 15th Street will be demolished soon to create a parking lot for Curry Realty, city Director of Codes and Inspections Rebecca Brown told the Altoona Planning Commission this week.
Curry is renovating the former Vipond building nearby to create a headquarters for its operations, now based in Morrisons Cove, along with leased space for Saint Francis University engineering and business programing and a financial tenant.
Curry submitted a land development application for the parking lot on the church property Monday, Brown said.
The building, which is near the city’s police station, should be demolished within the next few weeks, she said.
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The Altoona Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a land development plan for a new Greenbean Coffee House on the 700 block of Sixth Avenue across the avenue from the leased and currently operating facility it will replace.
Owners Katy and Travis McCabe Kavi Partnerships LLC were originally planning to construct a three-story building with the coffee house on the first floor and apartments above at the corner of Eighth Street, but now plan simply to build a one-story building for the coffee house, according to landscape architect Adam Long of Keller Engineers.
The owners obtained a special exception from the Zoning Hearing Board for off-site parking, so they could build the parking lot for the new facility across the alley between Sixth and Fifth avenues in the multiple household residential zone where the new facility will be located.
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The Altoona Planning Commission on Tuesday conditionally approved a land development plan for a $3 million project that will enable Senior LIFE to move from rental space in the Gables building downtown to a new structure on Fairway Drive.
The commission declined to waive a requirement that the firm construct a sidewalk along the 1,000-foot property frontage, but it accepted the company’s plan for two driveway openings, despite early concerns that egress from the property could create a hazard, due its location on an S curve.
The company argued for the sidewalk waiver based on the absence of sidewalks along almost the entire length of Fairway Drive.