City planning staff who reviewed the project are recommending approval.

Plans submitted to the city show the development would have 61 studio units, 90 one-bedroom units and 73 two-bedroom units. Those units would be in two buildings, with 118 units in a building adjacent to Brook Road and 106 units in a building adjacent to Roberts Street.

Amenities would include a swimming pool, fitness center, clubhouse, dog park, pocket park with open space, residential storage units and bike storage. There would be 268 parking spaces, or 1.2 parking spaces per unit.

The building facade is partially brick. The parcel butts up against residential and industrial parcels.

“What we tried to do was use the shape of the parcel to our advantage and offer more of a transition from the heavier industrial feel of the Post Office property and let our development kind of start to be the blend to the single-family residences,” Waechter said.

“The way the buildings are oriented on the site, we’ve allowed one of the buildings to parallel the Post Office property and screen that. The other building wraps the other property line over near Roberts [Street] so we can create a central corridor where we have the pool and clubhouse internal to the site,” he said.