The three-story building will include four, two-story condominiums. Beneath those homes will be at least four businesses.

With six parking spots planned for behind the new building and a handful of spots on Paris Avenue, Tom Michaels, a local architect who designed the building, said there's plenty of parking available for the additional traffic.

"What is nice about a mixed-use building is usually when commercial parking is in use the residential isn't in use because they are out working," he said.

But Town Councilman Joe Lee, who lives on 10th Street, doesn't think the parking situation has been planned out well enough.

"I'm concerned that the people upstairs will have enough parking," he said. "You plan for two cars, (but) they could bring three cars."

The building complies with the area's zoning, which requires space for two cars per home. But if the parking spots are filled up in front of the new building, that means people will have to walk from down the block and pass other shops, which could be good for business, Michaels said.

"They are going to enjoy that 10-minute walk," he said. "The idea of a walking community is they take up a (parking) spot and walk down the street and you go to all these different shops."

Donna Campbell, manager at Old Post Office Coffeehaus, about two blocks away from the new condos, said she's not worried about losing parking in front of her shop.

"We will just have to see when the building is complete," she said.

Tad Broduy, who lives on Ninth Street behind the condos, said he thinks the building will be good for the town.

"I don't have a problem with it," he said. "I think it is a good thing. It's going to be like Hilton Head."