A new student housing complex with beds for nearly 1,000 residents is one step closer to being built in a growing area near downtown.
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Planning Commission voted 7-2 to approve a zone change allowing Georgia-based Landmark Properties to build a 326 unit, 974 bedroom student apartment complex in the Davis Park neighborhood along South Broadway, Oliver Lewis Way and Chair Avenue.
The units will be spread across two buildings connected by an overhead pedestrian bridge, one six stories and one five stories. A parking garage with 575 spaces will be built near the railroad tracks at the edge of the property…