'Evolve on Main' plan set for Pullman Board of Adjustment

The proposal for a five-story mixed-used facility in downtown Pullman is set to go before Pullman's Board of Adjustment Thursday, March 9.

Field Holdings LLC in Los Angeles has proposed the facility, called “Evolve on Main,” and has plans for three stories of apartments in the building, as well as two levels of parking and a retail space on the ground floor.

The 42,000 square foot facility is proposed at the current site of the Washington Federal Bank on Main Street, and plans at one point called for the facility to extend to the site of the Chevron gas station adjacent to the bank. The developer has since scrapped plans to extend to that parcel.

Washington Federal would temporarily relocate during construction, which could start in April or May and be complete around August 2018, Pullman Planning Director Pete Dickinson previously told the Gazette

The bank would be located in a portion of the retail space once the facility is ready for opening.

The three upper floors are expected to house 82 apartments, varying in size from two to five bedrooms, as well as 142 parking spaces. The proposed 82 apartments are double the current amount allowed by Pullman's zoning code for a downtown structure, so the group needs to obtain a variance from the Board of Adjustment to be allowed to do that.

Additionally, another variance will be needed to allow for residential development in the flood plain there.

The Board of Adjustment hearing, at which public comment and discussion will take place, is slated for 7:30 p.m. in the Pullman City Council Chambers at city hall.