Hub 27, the second major apartment complex set to rise in Clark-Fulton near the border of Ohio City and Tremont, was given approval by the City Planning Commission on Friday.

Or, at least a part of the original plans.

Proposed in 2022 as a mini neighborhood, with its own grocery store and midrise office building, the version of Hub 27 presented to the CPC is a much more scaled-back, risk-averse plan for affordable housing just south of I-90 and West 27th Street.

The goal now, Pete Schwiegeraht, the vice president of development at Pivotal Housing Partners, is to construct a little more than 50 “workforce” apartment units on the northeastern edge of the site, roughly a minute walk west from Porco Tiki Lounge and Treo nearby.

Workforce meaning, Schwiegeraht said, eighty percent under C

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