Strong Museum of Play and its development partners would pay $2 million for multiple Inner Loop and nearby properties as part of an agreement outlined to City Council.

Mayor Lovely Warren has proposed the sale as part of the Inner Loop East redevelopment project. Strong has proposed an expansion, a hotel, a parking garage and Strong Neighborhood of Play, a residential project with street-level retail, decorative sidewalks, sculptures and playful street fixtures.

Strong's proposal is one of three developments that Warren is recommending for stretch of shovel ready land created when the sunken highway was removed between Monroe Avenue and East Main Street.

The land in question is less than 5 acres at the southern end of the development site, adjacent the museum property. It includes the tennis bubble and a nearby parking lot off Manhattan Square Drive.

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The Neighborhood of Play concept, last estimated at $105 million, has grown in density — with housing units increasing from an initially proposed 201 market-rate rentals to 250, of which 10 percent will be affordable units. The hotel has gone from 120 rooms to a maximum 175, records show. Strong is partnering with Konar Development and Indus Adventure Street LLC. The agreement provides them an option on the property.

Warren is asking City Council members to sign off on the land deal at their August meeting. She went to City Council in June seeking sale of the first Inner Loop East property, immediately north of East Avenue, to developers Christa Construction and Morgan Management. The remaining site, tagged for Home Leasing, is farther north and slated to head to City Council in October or November, officials said.

BDSHARP@Gannett.com