STEVENS POINT (excerpts from the Stevens Point Journal) – City leaders have new ideas for redeveloping the former downtown Shopko property. Documents released Friday afternoon show proposed plans that feature a new transit center and several buildings that include both residential, retail and mixed-use spaces.
City staff will present the initial site concept during a joint meeting of the city’s Redevelopment Authority and the Plan, Transit and Park commissions at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Mid-State Technical College. According to the documents, the meeting will be for city staff to present the concept and gain feedback to use to incorporate any changes before developing a final project.
The meeting will offer historical background, concepts and goals that went into building the initial plan. City planning staff and Vandewalle & Associates will walk the group through the project and answer questions.
According to city documents, the space would split the former department store and parking lot into several mixed-use spaces.
Two three- to four-story residential buildings would be built along Centerpoint Drive, where the former Shopko building currently stands. One three-story building would offer 20-30 residential units with the first floor available for potential flexible or commercial space. This would have underground parking.
The second building would be three or four stories and offer 50-75 residential units. This would also offer potential flexible or commercial space on the first floor and underground parking.
A third building at the corner of Church and Main streets would be a three-story mixed-use building. The portion along Church Street would offer 20-40 residential units, and the portion along Main Street would be a 10,000-square-foot retail space with underground parking.