Image courtesy of Newman Architects.

The owner of a partially covered parking lot attached to a pair of mid-century residential towers in downtown New Haven plans to demolish the structure and build a 7-story residential apartment building with ground-floor retail in its place.

The owner, New Haven Towers, owns the Crown Towers and Crown Court buildings on the same block and the Madison Towers building next door. The company presented plans to the Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team on Tuesday night. New Haven-based Newman Architects is designing the building.

The plans show the building and its retail spaces facing Crown Street, while the lobby and amenity spaces will face High Street. Other blocks of Crown Street are home to some of the city’s more popular eateries, but the current parking structure on the site helps serve as barrier to the extension of street life. The building is just the latest in a clutch of multifamily residential projects proposed for the area in recent months.

Construction is hoped to begin on the 132-unit project in September, according to the New Haven Independent.