Echo Harbour Facts

FACTS ABOUT ECHO HARBOUR

Currently Zoned M-2 Industrial:

  • Permitting all the proposed uses except condominiums or apartments
  • Allowing 3 times the amount of structure than proposed at a height of 214 feet across the entire site
  • Does not require any view openings in the building length
  • No public river access required
  • Requires only a Building Permit to proceed

Proposed for Mixed Use Development M-2 with a Special Use Permit:

  • 27,730 to 117,140 of professional office space
  • 130 to 158 room hotel
  • Various public meeting/event spaces & rooftop banquet facilities
  • Full service health club & spa facility open to public membership
  • Membership to indoor & outdoor pool facilities available to the public
  • Top of the line restaurant with outdoor river side dining open to the public
  • Various other convenience, beauty & related retail services open to the public
  • Membership to indoor golf training facilities available to the public
  • Rowing team facilities
  • 800 parking spaces with 100 designated for public use and having safe access to the public river promenade, businesses within the building, canal walk, capital trail, and adjacent municipal park
  • The only use not permitted under the current M-2 Zoning and requiring the Special Use Permit –
    88 to 102 one & two story luxury condominiums

No impact to the Historic View of the River's Bend:

  • Not located within the view of the river's bend from Libby Hill Park
  • Lies well west of the Lehigh-Portland Cement towers
  • 103 foot view corridor between buildings
  • The view of the river to the south from Libby Hill Park is currently obscured by tree, the RR trestle, and other buildings
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Lower Building height That Varies:

  • M-2 would allow over a 214 foot high building
  • Current proposed height varies from 150 feet down to 94 feet to East
  • Average height is 123 feet & shifted away from River's bend view
  • River Front Zoning ("RF-2") comparatively allows up to 150 feet

3.1 Acres of New Public Space & Public River Access:

  • Ensured continuous public access along the river
  • Landscaped with a public 50 foot wide River Walk the full length of the property
  • Developer funded continuation of the Canal Walk and Capital Trail
  • Landscaped park-like access to river on both sides of the building
  • 100 dedicated public parking spaces
  • The only public riverfront restaurant in the City, fitness facilities, river-view banquet facility, and other retail areas