Here’s a recap of the city of Greenville’s Design Review Board meeting held March 19.
Approved with conditions: 426 North Main development
Architectural details, materials and updated massing for a portion of the major mixed-use development planned at 426 and 420 N. Main St. in downtown Greenville received conditional approval.
The multi-phase development, referred to as 426 North Main, will consist of three buildings containing around 650 apartments, approximately 20,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a public parking garage. It would be located on the site of the former Greenville Municipal Court property and American Legion.
Green Property LLC and Bijou Properties are the developers behind 426 North Main. The project’s design team includes Johnston Design Group, Kimley-Horn and Lessard Design.
Design plans for the development’s southern building facing North Main Street were approved by the board. The mixed-use building will feature approximately 280 apartments, around 6,000 square feet of commercial space and approximately 285 structured parking spaces. This would be the first building constructed as part of the development.
The board previously approved the site plans and massing for the 426 North Main project in 2025. The new application approved by the board lowered the height of the south building from 13 stories to 12 stories. To offset this change, the development team plans to increase the elevation of the project’s north building on the corner of Academy and North Main streets to 22 stories.
The architectural details and materials for the project’s north building will be submitted to the board at a later date. The board requested that the development team further study the step-backs and articulation of the north building as a condition for approval.
Additional conditions included adding another entrance to the south building facing the project’s central plaza and further refining the building’s second-story facade facing North Main Street. The development team will also need to submit final landscape plans, garage screening, architectural lighting and a final material mock-up for approval by staff and two members of the board.
In addition, city staff noted that any exterior changes to the south building made by individual retail tenants will require a separate certificate of appropriateness.
Approved with conditions: CAMP building modification
CAMP Modern American Eatery plans to create a new wine tasting and chef’s table room by converting an existing valet office connected to the restaurant at 2 E. Broad St. An application was submitted and initially denied by the city’s planning staff to apply internal blackout film to the windows on the valet office.
The applicant, Stephen Glover with Saje General Contractors, submitted an appeal to the administrator’s decision in February. He now plans to replace the existing sliding valet windows with single-pane windows with tinted glazing to match the rest of the restaurant. The Design Review Board approved the applicant’s appeal.
