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handful of developers and landowners are waiting patiently while the Preston Road and Northwest Highway Area Plan task force works on its recommendations for future project guidelines in and around Preston Center. Count the leaders of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church among those standing in line. The church hopes to contract with a developer on an office tower and parking garage on the northeast corner of its property on Douglas Avenue. According to a request for proposals sent to prospective developers last summer, the church hopes to
lease the land for an office project of up to 250,000 square feet, perhaps with retail on the ground floor, as well as a parking garage that would be shared by the church, and be connected to the main church building by an air-conditioned skybridge. The land under consideration currently houses parking lots and a playground, but given the popularity of office space in the Preston Center area, church officials are looking at more lucrative opportunities. “We are exploring options that will allow us to improve our existing church campus in tandem with new and compatible uses of portions of our land to the north,” said Matthew Waller, the church’s senior warden.
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