TAMPA - Two years after the Stetson University College of Law opened its Tampa Heights campus, the first residential development near the school is being planned.

Two businessmen have combined their properties at Franklin and Tampa streets to ride the wave of downtown development that appears to be heading north on Franklin.

Tom Rodgers, who owns Robertson Billiard Supplies, 1721 N. Franklin St., and Fermin Rodriguez have proposed 16 condominium lofts on the site of an office building Rodriguez owns at 1703 Tampa St.

When the building where Rodgers manufactured custom pool tables burned in December 2004, he and Rodriguez agreed to develop their properties. The manufacturing building, 1616 Franklin St., was behind Rodriguez's office building.

The proposed three-story, Mediterranean-style University Lofts would house 1,300-square-foot units, each with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a two-car garage.

On Feb. 9, the Tampa City Council is scheduled to consider rezoning the properties.