Lane Parke apartment construction on schedule

Construction is on schedule for the new Residences at Lane Parke to open in the spring of 2014. The Mountain Brook Village apartment community will feature 276 units.

Dana Caudell, Daniel Corporation’s director of multi-family operations, said Daniel has been receiving three to five phone calls a week from people interested in learning more about the apartments, and about 40 people are now on a list to receive pricing information when it is released.

The development’s new website, laneparkeapartments.com, now features a form where interested parties can submit their contact information, desired move-in month and desired floor plan. Associates are checking those submissions daily to add names to a priority list, Caudell said, and will contact them with updates on pricing and other matters.

Pricing for the one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans should be released in September or October along with a more interactive website, Caudell said. Also at that time, a property manager should be in place to answer questions for potential tenants.

One-bedroom units will start at 681 square feet, two bedrooms at 1,106 square feet, and three bedrooms at 1,433 square feet.

Approximately 60 units will be opened in the spring, and the remaining units will be completed by the fall.

Recreation areas will include gardens, a pool, a fitness center with a yoga and stretching room, a clubhouse, a game room, a bark park, community Wi-Fi and access to the new Woodland Park that will border Watkins Branch. The apartments will also boast a cyber café with coffee bar, valet trash service and covered gazebo grilling stations. Covered garages will also be available.

Like its predecessor, Park Lane apartments, The Residences will be located within walking distance of Mountain Brook Village retailers and Birmingham Botanical Gardens, as well as the remainder of the 28-acre Lane Parke development once it is completed.

Also included in this phase of development for Lane Parke, a 100-room Grand Bohemian Hotel and approximately 185,000 square feet of commercial lifestyle retail and office space are scheduled for completion in 2014.

Hoar Construction began work on the apartments in January. The development was designed by Atlanta-based Wakefield Beasley & Associates. Goodwyn Mills Cawood, Inc. is the project engineer. Construction financing for the project is being provided by First Commercial Bank.