City commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a request to vacate a small public utility easement near the hotel project in Aggieville.

The easement, in the 1200 block alley between Moro and Laramie Street, was created to allow telecommunications lines to enter the formerly-planned Midtown building while avoiding the narrow alleyways where utility lines were often damaged.

“Now the new building is going to sit over in this area, and then this is actually going to be part of the parking garage,” public works director Brian Johnson said. “Obviously those utilities don’t want to go through the parking garage to get to the building, so they’re going to come around to 12th Street.”

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On Tuesday, Manhattan city commissioners will vote to terminate plans to develop the Handi-Corner site on Laramie Street between 11th and 12th streets.

Developer Midtown Land Company had planned to build a hotel and parking garage on the site, where a portion of the Handi-Corner strip mall has been demolished. However, owner TJ Vilkanskas, who also owns Back 9 Development, last week came before the city commissioners to ask that they let him build the hotel/parking garage across the street to the west, where he had planned to build a multi-use building with mostly office space called Midtown.

The commission last week agreed to let Back 9 change the plan and build a Hampton Inn with parking garage. Plans call for a 105-room hotel and 100-stall parking garage on the site, formerly a parking lot south of Kite’s Bar and Grill and currently an empty lot. Commissioners also authorized issuing $20 million in industrial revenue bonds for the project as well as project deadlines and potential penalties.

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