In St. Paul, an industrial area near the city’s University Avenue border with Minneapolis is about to get a makeover. Developers plan two new public parks and three new streets south of the Green Line’s Westgate Station.

Affordable-housing apartments for seniors and for working families is proposed for the site, too.

The area, Moorhouse Commons, has begun to take shape on paper. On Wednesday, the St. Paul City Council is poised to approve a final plat for the new park sites, which has the support of the St. Anthony Park Community Council.

About five blocks south of Metro Transit’s light-rail line, the parks would sit south of Franklin Avenue at 700 Emerald St., bordering two affordable housing developments planned by Plymouth-based Dominium, a national housing developer. Dominium will pay the city $323,000 toward converting a 3-acre parcel into green space, satisfying the city’s parkland dedication requirements for new development.

In 2004, the same developer converted a warehouse site at 808 Berry Place, just north of Franklin Avenue, into luxury apartments and townhomes.

The two affordable-housing developments in the works would serve different markets. At 700 Emerald St., Dominium plans to construct a 121-unit, four-story “workforce” apartment building at the former site of a Weyerhaeuser Lumber distribution facility, which closed in 2016. The apartments would serve workers and small families earning no more than 60 percent of area median income.

Meanwhile, the Legends at Berry Senior Apartments, a four-story, 242-unit senior apartment building, will sit across a future new street.

Neal Route, a senior development associate with Dominium, said construction of both housing developments and the park would begin in June and take roughly two years.

The parkland will include bicycle trail connections to Franklin Avenue on the north and Wabash Avenue on the southeast.

The new Dominium project sits within St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone, as well as the Towerside Innovation District, which is steered by the Minneapolis-based civic advocacy group Prospect Park 2020.