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ITHACA, N.Y. — After a proposed 11-story building called “The State Street

Triangle Project” was criticized (http://ithacavoice.com/2015/08/it-doesnt-

look-like-ithaca-11-story-building-criticized-at-city-hall/) at City Hall by

several members of Ithaca’s planning board, its developers met with the

community about the proposal. The public meeting was held on Thursday at

Coltivare in downtown Ithaca.

“We thought it would be a good time to hold a meeting away from City Hall,

where we could actually have a dialogue with the community outside of that

process,” said Scott Whitham – of Whitham Planning & Design, LLC,

coordinator of the project.

The project has already undergone several changes. “We began with various

thematic designs about six months ago and then moved forward from there,”

Whitham said.

Noah Demarest from Stream Collaborative presented the project’s

evolution. “Our role here as the local architects is to help Kelly Grossman

architects make the project more contextual to Ithaca,” Demarest said.

Initially the building was fairly modern. Demarest showed the very early

concept they came up with: “What this was trying to do is to break the

building up more horizontally rather than vertically and really try to make a

more traditional 3-part building where there is a strong base and pedestrian

scale,” he said.

“The other thing that we did is the introduction of another type of building on

the corner which would really break this into two different styles. So again

this was an early concept and the building has continued to evolve and we’ll

just talk through some of those evolution.”

He showed the scheme that was sent to the planning board last month. “As

you can see, it retains a lot of the features that the building had initially, but

we have introduced a new building façade along State Street where we broke

this up into three very distinct parts. In addition we also dropped this story to

create a roof terrace, an outdoor space at the very top level, the 11th story,”

he said.

(http://ithacavoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-11-at-

9.30.43-AM.png)The new proposed renderings

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According to Demarest, the local architects’ main goal is “to enhance the

pedestrian experience and carry the same character and amenity of the

Commons across the street and really all the way down in front of the

building.”

After receiving feedback from the planning board, Demarest said they

“worked hard with the development team and with the architects to see what

could do to continue to erode away this building to make it less massive.”

“Earlier this week

we’ve dropped the

corner – what many

would argue is the

most important

corner that faces the

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Commons, an entire

story. We dropped

this down to 10

stories, and we’ve

created that outdoor

terrace space which

would have pretty

stunning views of the

lake at this point,”

Demarest said.

The project now

includes six different

buildings with six

different

architectural styles.

“One of the things

we are doing with

these separate

buildings is really

trying to take

inspiration from the

architectural details

downtown of the

Commons and other

really great buildings

around the country,”

Demarest said.

According to Whitham, the planning board had also asked them to work with

the city to examine the intersection as part of their design work, and to look

for ways to improve the pedestrian experience. The new schematic proposal

for the intersection, designed with SRF Traffic Consultants and T.G. Miller

Engineers, “takes away the slip lane and improves the turning radius for large

vehicles, at the same time as increasing the pedestrian area and making an

experiential connection to the Commons,” Whitham said.

Whitham and Demarest answered the questions of the crowd, together with

Vicki Taylor Brous, Communications, Mike Peter, President and CEO of

Campus Advantage of Austin, TX, and Ronnie Macejewski, Senior Vice

President of Development Services.

One of the Ithacans’ main concerns was that this was going to be “a

monocultural building of all students.” According to Whitham, “that was not a

desirable thing for the city to have,” so the developers “went back to the floor

plans and designed 60 % of the units as studios, one bedroom or two

bedrooms, to create the opportunity for a more diverse resident population.”

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Ronnie Macejewski said that the beds went from 620 to 582. The rents will

range from 980 to 1600 dollars per bed, which includes everything from

Internet and utilities to fitness center.

Despite this move away from the student model, many Ithacans are still

concerned that downtown Ithaca is really not for the people who live there

and have been paying taxes for a long time, and that the Commons is

becoming a “boutique alley.” Furthermore, some expressed concern about the

lack of parking spaces in the area and the possibility of an increased traffic.

The developers reminded the audience that the next appointment will be the

September 22nd Public Hearing at City Hall on the project, where any public

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