Skinner Block Loft Apartments

  • Developer/Project Proponent: Chris Townsend
  • Project Address: 1522 River Drive
  • Renew Moline Role: Design review and support during development agreement negotiations
  • Completion Date: 2015
  • Project cost:  $3.6m
  • Economic Incentives: Parking, special assessment tax/tax abatement and historic tax credits.

Completed in 2015, the renovation of the Skinner Block Loft Apartments Phase I brought 12 market rate units online in a mixed-use environment.  The project is in the “Historic Block” and included ground floor retail space in addition to 1, 2 and 3 bedroom upscale apartments.  The Skinner Block on River Drive was built in 1896 and in 1905 an “annex” to the south was added.  The annex is currently home to Bad Boyz Pizza and Dead Poets Espresso.

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