Design changes have been made and an on-site start nears for a mixed-use tower to be located on a downtown surface parking lot owned by Christ Church Cathedral, with the building to now offer 16 floors instead of 23.

New Orleans-based HRI Properties continues to eye the building, which will offer one hotel (two previously had been considered) and retail space and rise on a surface parking lot at 127 Rosa Parks Blvd., at that road's intersection with Commerce Street. The tower would be located adjacent to the back of the 810 Broadway building that is home to Morgan & Morgan law firm and that Magnolia Investments Partners recently bought for $16.5 million (read here).