As one goes up floors, the parking structure is “skinned” with apartments around the sides. The mid-rise is designed to accommodate the uses of hotel, office, and/or residences. The building is based on a flexible group of approved uses listed on the previous page. This includes retail, restaurant, café, dry cleaner, and grocer uses that may occur on the ground floor with access around the perimeter of the building. They will have their own doorways along the streets, and some may have entries from the garage side on the interior of the building.

The proposed hotel contributes to the mixed-use concept or office workers, visiting guests, or family members of residents that may need a place to stay close by. The hotel also serves the surrounding neighborhoods which do not have a hotel within 2 miles of the site. The hotel will have an entry point from Grinstead Drive for pick up and drop off. The lobby, concierge, restaurant, and ballroom for the hotel will be on the lower levels.

The elevators will take the guests up through the lower floors to the hotel rooms located in the mid-rise above. The hotel will have up to 195 rooms.

The lower facades will have materials and a traditional layout as seen in the illustration where the ground floor uses have doors and windows that orient to the street and create a streetscape experience.

The upper facades may have less traditional materials and show the materials in a more contemporary style. This includes more glass, cutouts in the façade, and overhangs.

Balconies in the mid-range of the building will be used to create relief, rhythm, and texture in the façade. Since the balconies bring out character an the first floor starts 20’ above the ground level, the balconies will be allowed to overhang into the right-of-way.

Building lighting may be mounted to the exterior walls to illuminate the architecture and highlight ground floor uses. Building lighting will be allowed to overhang into the right-of-way as needed since the property line is the build-to line. Exterior lighting toward signs may be used in a manner that follows the LDC lighting levels. Streetscape lighting may be placed between the tree wells to adequately light the pedestrian ground plane. City and KYTC regulations regarding lighting and drivers will be followed.

ONE PARK’s exterior building design is dynamic in that it responds to a traditional design language from the surrounding neighborhoods, but also creates a new, contemporary vocabulary. Many of the facades on the base pedestal of ONE PARK incorporate conventional materials, ornament, and proportion which creates continuity at the street level. A pedestrian scale is maintained at the lower levels along Etley Avenue and Grinstead Drive to respect the park and neighborhood’s character and materials of brick and limestone. Building materials may consist of stone, brick, metal, glass, precast concrete and cast stone. They will be used in more traditional forms on the lower levels and transition to a more contemporary look and assemblies as the building ascends.

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