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Project updates
Updated 2024
Rise on 7 apartments and Rise Early Learning daycare are now open. For leasing information, visit the Rise on 7 leasing website.
Development details
CommonBond redeveloped the former Prince of Peace Lutheran Church site at 8115 Hwy. 7 and constructed a five-story, mixed-use building called Rise on 7. The site contains 120 dwelling units and a 6,600-square-foot daycare. All dwelling units at Rise on 7 are affordable with an income range of 30% – 60% of area median income (AMI). The development exceeds the city's minimum inclusionary housing and green building policies. Site improvements include outdoor play areas for the apartments and the daycare, rooftop solar array, a rain garden and underground stormwater management system.
CommonBond received approval for the following city land use applications:
- A comprehensive plan amendment to re-guide the site from civic to high density residential land use
- A preliminary and final plat
- A planned unit development (PUD)
Public meetings
- April 8, 2021 – CommonBond staff held a virtual neighborhood meeting
- May 19, 2021 – planning commission held a public hearing on the applications and took the following actions:
- Recommended approval of the comprehensive plan amendment and preliminary and final plat
- Tabled action on the preliminary and final PUD and requested additional information and amendments to address issues identified by staff
- June 2, 2021 – planning commission recommended approval of the preliminary and final PUD
- June 21, 2021 – city council approved the comprehensive plan amendment and plat and held a first reading of the PUD ordinance
- July 6, 2021 – city council held the second reading on the PUD ordinance