Curtis Booker is a reporter for KSL.
PROVO — Plans to transform the Provo Towne Centre from an indoor mall to an indoor-outdoor mixed-use development are getting some traction, though officials aren't completely sold on every aspect of the project.
Brixton Capital, which owns the mall and the property of a neighboring mobile home park, is proposing a massive overhaul of the 23-acre location. The $500 million project, in partnership with Provo-based PEG Companies, calls for indoor and outdoor retail, shopping and entertainment, with 1,300 new apartments and 80 new townhomes. A majority of the townhouses, 72, would be built where the Shady Acres mobile home park currently sits. The remaining 11 would be built directly north of the mall.The developers went before the Provo Planning Commission at its meeting last Wednesday to advance their proposal."We're asking for a general plan amendment to allow the zone; we're asking for a zone change that would allow the use; we're asking for a concept site plan ," said Robert Schmidt, managing director at PEG Companies.The commission voted unanimously in favor of a positive recommendation to the Provo City Council for the developer's general plan amendment and a zone map change to interim transit-oriented development,; though commissioners weren't too keen about the townhome portion of the plan.Provo's interim transit-oriented development zone is intended to support mixed-use, high-density development near transit hubs. Commissioners felt the townhomes may not meet the zone's intended use and suggested that developers rethink that aspect or remove it from the high-density zone.However, the planning commission was not ready to forward an approval of the developer's concept site plan to the City Council. They voted 6-2 to continue the item so that developers can revise it to address concerns about traffic, pedestrian walkability and impacts that current residents who live in Shady Acres mobile home park would face.Developers said they've been working with the city for the past 18 months on a proposed plan to revitalize what they call a "very much underutilized site.""We can continue down the road, which would propose what is not a viable orientation of retail for the future, or we can decide that this is a vision that is more optimal," said Justin Long, project executive at Brixton Capital.Renderings from the project include a multilevel mall with exterior retail spaces with an outdoor plaza where the current mall
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