Developers have lodged plans for a four-storey shop-top apartment building on the site of Mon’s restaurant in Darby Street, the third low-rise unit proposal this year for the popular entertainment strip.
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The plan includes demolishing the existing building and replacing it with ground-floor commercial space, three floors of apartments and a roof-top garden.
The development includes a two-level car-stacker, unusual for Newcastle, as part of a 13-space car park.
Plans lodged with a development application to Newcastle City Council say the building will “set the tone and scale for future comparable shop-top housing within the subject street and within the wider locality”.
The proposed building exceeds the height limit for the site by three metres.
A developer lodged plans in June for a $10 million, 32-unit development across the road on the site of the Darby Raj and Sanctum restaurants, 5 Sawyers bar and the Guanabana Designs clothing store.
The council is also assessing a four-storey unit proposal for 256 Darby Street.