Redevelopment of the Zenith tower at Five Points inched closer to approval as the city’s Development Review Committee issued partial sign-off on Oct. 16 for the plan to replace the 12-story office building and parking garage with a mixed-use development.
Partial sign-off means the project need not appear again before the entire committee but rather may pursue complete sign-off with individual staff project reviewers.
Developer Jebcore Z Tower of Sarasota, a subsidiary of Jebcore Companies, is pursuing administrative approval on the split-zoned site to build 18-story and 10-story towers that will include 96 dwelling units — seven of which to be designated as affordable under the city’s downtown attainable housing density bonus — and 41,837 square feet of commercial and office space.
The 1.18-acre site is at the southwest quadrant of the roundabout at Main Street, Pineapple Avenue and Central Avenue. It lies in both the Downtown Bayfront and Downtown Core zone districts, and no requested rezoning…