The redevelopment project will also include office buildings, community space
City staff did not support the request for height variance, but council members voted 5-2 to approve site plan variances, including the height variance, during a. It was the first time someone has used a design exception to increase building height in the McKinney Town Center zoning district, unique to the downtown area.
“We have car washes, Encore Wire [a wire and cable manufacturer] is expanding, the airport, a lot of things that we don’t need in our everyday lives that don’t benefit us or don’t benefit our quality of life,” said Jessica Thibodeaux who lives within walking distance of the mill. “We understand change is coming whether we like it or not, and we’d rather have change come to the area that can offer us something positive.
Terry Casey bought the mill nearly 30 years ago, and the Casey family has been stewards of the site since. Parts of the existing Cotton Mill have been remodeled, and inside its expansive 176,000 square feet lies artist studios, a ceramic studio, an art gallery, a coming recording studio, office spaces, an event hall and space rented out by the MillHouse. Most recently, a coffee shop opened in the mill’s east end.
Further, plans include two four-story office buildings totaling about 200,000 square feet and 27 three-story townhome style “artist lofts,” which will be for sale and allow the local artist community to not only have a place to work but also be in a collaborative environment.
“Given the degree of change that they were looking for, from what that max allowed height was from the zoning and what they were proposing, that was a concern to us,” said Jennifer Arnold, director of planning for the city. “The scale and compatibility of three seven-story 85- to 90-foot-tall buildings in an area where the closest tallest building is around 35 to 45 feet, in our opinion, the change to the skyline in an area that is historic was not appropriate.”Charles Wattley, pastor at St.
“Without exception, everyone was excited about the project; they wanted it there,” Farrell said during the council meeting. The team at Presidium and the Cotton Mill has also contacted East McKinney community leaders and engaged city officials to ask how to make the development inclusive — a place “that people in the neighborhood after dinner can say, ‘let’s take a walk, let’s go sit by a fire pit, let’s go look at the fountain or maybe go to the stage for some entertainment,’ ” Farrell said.
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