The Des Moines Plan and Zoning Commission will consider a rezoning request next week from Mercy Properties Inc. for a project that includes the construction of an 11-story tower on the southeast side of Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines.

Mercy also is seeking an amendment to its planned unit development conceptual plan that would expand the area by slightly more than 2 acres.

Mercy wants to demolish Mercy Apartments for development of an east parking structure and surface parking, demolish Mercy Office Plaza for a southwest parking structure, and demolish the existing east parking structure to accommodate development of the tower that would include two levels of below-ground parking, according to a summary of the project on the Plan and Zoning Commission agenda for Aug. 18.