A pair of M.L. King Boulevard developers are teaming up on a new four-story apartment and retail building on a site that’s a gateway to the UTC campus.
Located at M.L. King and Douglas Street, the new structure will hold 31 apartments, said Chris Curtis of Riverside Development, which is joining with Adamson Development on the project.
Bobby Joe Adamson, president of that company, said the demand is there for the new construction.
“It’s definitely attractive” for renters and retailers, he said. Adamson said he’d like to draw a restaurant, clothing store, barber shop or beauty supply retailer inside the planned building’s commercial space.
The more than $2 million project will go up on a vacant lot nearly across M.L. King from Douglas Heights, the seven-story, $41 million building raised two years ago by Riverside as mostly student housing.