Shiny & Boxy Downtown Tower Surfaces

For those starved for renderings: The Downtown News is reporting that although there's no timeline for the project, a 31-story tower is planned on block just west of the Eastern Columbia building. "The mixed-use project from [developer] Laeroc 2002 Coast Parking, LLC would rise on two adjacent surface parking lots between Hill and Olive streets at Ninth Street. The project had a hearing before city planning officials on May 20, and is expected to be fully entitled within two weeks, said land use consultant Greg Jackson of Rosenheim & Associates." The 283-unit condo project (with 11,180 square feet of ground-floor retail and 663 parking spaces) is being designed by Rothenberg Sawasy Architects. [DN]