"Impact Warren" is looking greener after Monday's Warren City Council meeting.

The biggest change comes in the form of only one parking garage instead of the originally-proposed two. Yoder said the suggestion from Northwest Savings Bank was for "more green" next to Breeze Point Landing.

The proposed three-level, 336-space parking garage on the west side of Liberty St. on the Breeze Point Landing side has now been taken out of the plans.

The proposed three-level, 507-space parking garage on the east side of Liberty St. where a current Northwest Savings Bank lot is now will now become a four-level, 629-space parking garage.

There were more changes.

Yoder said another change to add "more green" includes getting rid of the current Northwest Savings operations center building on Clark St. for green space. New plans would also replace a parking lot along Clark St. with green space.

The proposed new barge stage and amphitheater was originally planned for next to and on the eastern side of Breeze Point Landing along the river. That will now become the space for a newly-built 100-room three-story hotel, which was to be in the former Loranger building. The proposed convention center will also shift west into where the hotel was originally planned in the former Loranger building, and, new to plans, a retail center will take its place in the building.

The barge stage and amphitheater will have much more green space west of the former Loranger building where there currently is a parking lot near the Thorne's BiLo parking lot. The maps show a new pedestrian bridge off of Market Street over Conewango Creek to the Point Park, an assumption that the vehicular bridge will not be moved to that area.

The new Impact Warren map will soon be made available at www.breezepointlanding.com.

"It gives us a lot more green area in between the roads and the streets here," Yoder said of the changes. "It's on paper; we have the ability to move (anything) anywhere."

Mayor Mark Phillips called the community project a "work in progress."

"It looks a lot nicer than the last version for sure," said council member David See.

Yoder asked council to think about appointing three members sit on a "concept committee" with, possibly, members of the Warren County Chamber of Business and Industry and both the county and city planners.

Council will also consider Yoder's request to make the Susquehanna Development Group "exclusive agent for the project area."

"We've all worked on good faith up to this point," Yoder said. "I'm making a big commitment here to buy the Loranger building."

Phillips reiterated to council in speaking to Yoder, "If we don't get the money (grant funding), you don't get paid." He said payment comes from funding sources and not from the city.

Council members were asked to study the developer's agreement and forward questions and concerns to the city solicitor for Yoder to answer. Council will consider the action at the January meeting.

Yoder told council that the Susquehanna Development Group has a signed agreement with the federal Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh for the Clark St. Loranger manufacturing building to be included in Impact Warren. He did not say what the offer was, but said a hearing will be scheduled by the court for the building's sale.