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A developer wants to continue Downtown’s housing surge with a plan to raze six vintage houses for a six-story apartment building on a choice site blocks from Capitol Square.

The proposal is the first test of the city’s new Downtown Plan and zoning for the corridor of two- and three-story houses — converted to student dwellings long ago — that aesthetically tie the Bassett and Mifflin neighborhoods that meet along the 400 and 500 blocks of West Washington Avenue.

Up Urban Properties of Chicago is proposing to demolish houses at 8, 10-12, and 14 N. Broom St. and 404, 408, and 410 W. Washington Ave. for an apartment building with 85 units marketed to young professionals, college upperclassmen and graduate students.

Stephen Bus, managing partner at Up Urban Properties, described it as a “small, boutique project that will introduce a new housing type for this block” with a building design that will maintain the area’s character and improve safety with more active ground-floor uses.

Ald. Mike Verveer, 4th District, who represents the area, has taken no position on the project, which he said would change the human scale of housing on the blocks.