Washington’s Planning and Zoning Commission will consider a zoning change for a multi-family housing project in the city.

A public hearing will be held for citizens. The rezoning is in regards to the property at 628 East 3rd Street from light industrial to B-2 general business. The McCleery Calendar Factory is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The developer is Hobart Historic Restoration, which specializes in revitalizing and restoring historic buildings for current use. The developer wants to convert the current space into multi-family housing and commercial or business space.

According to a letter to the City from Mary Ottoson with Hobart Historic Restoration, they have already been awarded Workforce Housing Tax Credits and Brownfield/Grayfield Tax Credits, as they’ve been working on this project for nearly three years. The goal is to have the building fully rehabilitated by the end of 2018 or spring of 2019 at the latest.

The planning and zoning meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Washington Public Library.