Downtown Fredericton Could Be Getting A New Nine-Storey Mixed-Used Building
FREDERICTON – An architect has applied for a zoning amendment to allow for a nine-storey, mixed-use apartment building at 199 Queen St., where the Royal Canadian Legion is currently located.
“It’s going to be a mixed-use building,” said Marcello Battilana, the city’s Community Planning Manager. “There’s going to be ground floor retail. It’s also going to accommodate the legion, [which] will have space on the second floor. Overall, it will be 52 [apartment] units.”
The application, filed by Carl Smyth of architecture firm Smyth Design, will be discussed by the city’s Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) at its May 15 meeting. It seeks a zoning amendment to increase the maximum permitted building height to 28.2 metres.
Design sketches filed in the meeting agenda shows that the building will include penthouses at the top level, apartments at the levels below that, 30 spaces of underground parking, commercial spaces on the first floor, and the Royal Canadian Legion and commercial spaces on the second floor.
“We’re still working on the details of it. What we have to do is write a planning report. There’s going to be a lot more information that’s going to go on the website,” Battilana said.
The planning report will be made public on the afternoon of May 10, a few days before the PAC meeting. If approved by the committee, the proposal still has to get the approval of the City Council.
“It’s very premature. A lot of things can happen between now and when it hits PAC. And a lot of things can happen between PAC and council as well,” he said. “We’re right now in kind of a review stage of the process.”
Huddle reached out to Smyth’s office, but couldn’t reach him before this story was published. The name of the developer hasn’t been made public yet, either.