Southgate City Council is scheduled tonight to hear the first reading of an ordinance allowing a zone change for the Beverly Hills Memorial Point Development. Council will not vote tonight on the zone change.
A second reading/final vote is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 19. Kentucky state law mandates two readings of the ordinance in a public meeting before council can vote.
Last month, The Campbell County Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve plans for Memorial Point, a mixed-use residential development planned on the site of the former Beverly Hills Supper Club.
The project – a joint venture of Ashley Builders Group and Vision Realty – will include memorials to the victims of the 1977 fire that claimed 165 lives.
“We understand and embrace the need for a memorial that ensures that the people who were lost in the fire will never be forgotten. It is our intention to work with a group of survivors and family members of victims as well as with Southgate city officials on a memorial planning committee,” said Pat Crowley, a spokesman for Ashley and Vision.
“An appropriate and fitting spot for a memorial planned for the site is planned along US 27. Through our development agreement with the city, we are also planning to install a memorial marker or placard depicting a map of the Beverly Hills Supper Club that will be located within a park that is planned in the development.”
The $65 million project includes 89 single-family homes, 100 to 200 luxury apartments and a for-profit assisted living facility of 79 residential units.