The Buccini/Pollin Group, Inc. (BPG) and BPGS Construction marked the topping out of The Residences at Mid-Town Park and Mid-Town Parking Garage on Monday.
The ceremony occurred at 820 N. Orange Street where 200 apartments in 2 buildings, 12,000 square feet of retail space and a 511 space parking garage are being built. The total cost of the project once completed will be $75 million.
The project consists of one five -story building and one nine -story building connected by a pedestrian bridge.
Building one has four floors of living space and five floors of subterranean parking below it.
The parking garage is about 50 feet below street level. Building two has nine floors total. The excavation for the garage portion is the deepest in Wilmington has seen in more than 25 years and marks a milestone in redevelopment downtown as it is also the first subterranean parking garage in the city. More than 15,000 cubic yards of concrete were poured.
The apartment community will feature amenities that include a demonstration kitchen and a dog washing station. An elevated courtyard will include a 33-foot x 30-foot swimming pool and barbecue area.
The Residences at Mid-town Park will also offer residents a fitness center, screening room and clubhouse amenities. The community will include studios, one and two-bedroom apartments with stainless-steel appliances and quartz counter tops. The parking garage portion of the project will be delivered in the first quarter of 2018 with the apartment community arriving in the summer the same year.
The parking garage portion of the project will be delivered in the first quarter of 2018 with the apartment community arriving in the summer the same year.
Rob Buccini, co-president of The Buccini/Pollin Group stated that he is pleased with development activity in the city. “As one of the nine cranes gracing the Wilmington skyline, the Mid-town project is a milestone of the ongoing renaissance of downtown, marked by the project’s creation of 363 construction jobs in our city.”
Buccini was joined by dignitaries that included Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki.
