This story has been updated to include the time of a planning commission meeting.

The site of an old Holiday Inn hotel along Tiger Boulevard in Clemson could soon be home to restaurants, apartments and retail space.

Clemson Dockside LP submitted a proposal this week to the Clemson planning commission for a planned development on a 5.1-acre site which has 450 feet of frontage along Lake Hartwell.

The proposal includes 322 residential units ranging from studios to five-bedroom apartments, 14,000 square feet of restaurant space, 8,000 square feet of retail, a six-story parking garage and a boardwalk along the lake. The property, across from the Hampton Inn hotel, has been vacant for more than a decade.

"It is the gateway to the city coming off of the water," said Brent Little, the manager for Clemson Dockside LP. "Clemson is on the water, but there is not really a public place for everyone to go and enjoy all that, so we are dedicating the vast majority of first-floor space to the public realm."

Little said his long-term plan is for the boardwalk on the property to connect with Abernathy Park, across from Keowee Trail.

Julie Ibrahim, owner of The Tiger Sports Shop, has owned the property at 894 Tiger Boulevard since 2012. She said she is excited about how the development can open up what has been private property for residents to enjoy along the lake. She envisions people eating dinner along the dock with a patio view of "purple and orange sunsets."

"I feel very confident in what they have proposed," Ibrahim said of the development company, Fountain Residential Partners. "It is important to me that whatever goes in has my support as I've been a longtime resident of the city. I feel an obligation to put something there that will benefit all members of the Clemson community and the city itself."

Ibrahim said she has been working with Fountain Residential Partners for more than three months on the proposal.

Little, who is the president of Fountain Residential Partners, said it is an $80 million project. Over half of the units, 63.4%, would be studios, and one and two-bedroom units that Little said would target graduates, the local workforce and retirees. The remaining units would target students. Little estimates that single-bedroom units would start at a little more than $1,000 a month in rent.

The architectural firm Looney Ricks Kiss designed the look of the development, with inspiration from the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California, and Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Little said.

The project will be given a first review during the June 10 planning commission meeting at 6 p.m. The city has scheduled an informal public meeting on the project 4-6 p.m. June 11. Little's goal is to begin construction in the first quarter of 2020.

Ibrahim listed the land for $7.9 million and is selling it to the developer. Ibrahim said the land is currently under contract as the development company goes through the planning process.

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Little said his firm has held and operated some developments for more than five years, but he said he is also open to selling the Clemson development in the future.

"We are blessed in that our capital investors don't need to sell the property," he said. "If it makes sense to hold on to it, then we will do that."

The property is zoned in a community business, or "CP-2," district, where the maximum allowable building height is 40 feet or 65 feet for a hotel. The project is going through the planned development process because Little is requesting to build to 65 feet, city planner Art Holbrooks said by email. Planned developments require both planning commission and city council approval.

Ibrahim hopes the development will remind people of the property's older days when it was a social gathering spot for the city.

"People have great fond memories from when it was the Holiday Inn, but right now the property is fallow," she said.

In 1968, Holiday Inns of America approved a franchise for Clemson football player Winston "Streak" Lawton at the site, The Greenville News reported in August 1968. Developers broke ground for the 100-room hotel in March of 1969.

After his coaching days, Frank Howard was known to frequent the spot. An article from The Greenville News following Howard's death in 1996 described him stopping by the Holiday Inn "three times a day to drink coffee and swap stories about characters like former Wake Forest coach 'Peahead' Walker."

The hotel eventually became the Lake Hartwell Inn, which shut down in 2006 and was torn down in 2007, according to a story in The Greenville News.

A condo development was planned for the property in 2007, but Ibrahim said it never came to fruition because of the recession.