WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (6/21/2016) Gov. Jack Markell and other officials helped break ground to launch a $75 million apartment complex in downtown Wilmington.
The groundbreaking ceremony Monday for The Residences at Mid-Town Park, being built by The Buccini/Pollin Group, was held at 820 N. Orange St., the former site of the Midtown Parking Garage.
The new project will include 200 apartments in two buildings, 12,000 square feet of retail space and a 511-car parking garage.
The garage is expected to be completed in the winter of 2017 and the apartments by the summer of 2018.
An elevated courtyard off Shipley Street will include a swimming pool and barbecue area for the apartments. There will also be a fitness center and screening room. Residences include studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments.
The two apartment buildings will straddle a new private street, named Burton Place in honor of William H. “Dutch” Burton, former Wilmington City Councilman and civil rights leader. His sit-in at the Eagle Coffee Shoppe, which was located in the former Midtown parking structure, in 1958 eventually led to the overturning of a state law that allowed businesses to refuse service to black people.