Posted Sep 29, 2023, 8:17 PM
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Nearly 2,000 living units at Windward Pointe part of developer’s plans that include marina, public parks
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Among the plans for the sprawling lakefront Windward Pointe site in Muskegon are 221 lots for new homes, about 1,700 condo, townhomes and apartment units, a 224-slip marina, 350-boat indoor storage building and several small parks on Muskegon Lake open to the public.
Jon Rooks’ Parkland Properties has released plans for the 123-acre property on Muskegon Lake that previously was the site of paper mill that was torn down years ago. The site plan includes boat storage, restaurants, retail areas and public restrooms. Plans include rerouting the Lakeshore Trail paved pathway through Windward Pointe, which is along Lakeshore Drive on the lake’s south shore.
Public amenities include small parks with fishing docks, a kayak launch, public pathways and a forested area that would be preserved.
“It’s a big project and we feel really good about it,” Rooks told MLive/The Muskegon Chronicle. “We want the community to feel really good about the project.”
The property is still zoned for industrial uses, and Parkland will be seeking rezoning for planned unit development at the Oct. 12 Muskegon Planning Commission meeting and Oct. 24 city commission meeting. Plans for the huge site primarily revolve around housing – which will include single-family homes, townhomes, condos, apartments and mixed-use retail/residential buildings.
Nearly the entire Muskegon Lake shoreline would be lined with homes, except for the parklets and the area east of the city’s Cottage Grove launch ramp where the marina would be located, plans show.
The main entrance would be just west and across Lakeshore Drive from Sherin Street and would feature a retail corridor.
Four-story apartment buildings would line much of Lakeshore Drive. Rooks has said some apartments would be studio units renting for less than $1,000 per month. Parkland Properties entered a purchase agreement with the property’s ownership group, Pure Muskegon, in July. Rooks declined to reveal the amount of the purchase offer and said he expects to close on the property before the end of the year.
Since July, Parkland, Pure Muskegon, the city of Muskegon and Greater Muskegon Economic Development have “collaborated” on more than $1 million of work at the site that includes additional environmental testing and removal of railroad tracks and wood fences that blocked public view of the site, Rooks wrote in an email. The city paid $1.7 million to CSX for the abandoned rail line, which runs along Lakeshore Drive from Windward Pointe to Western Avenue. The city wanted control of the line so it could remove the tracks believed to be a hindrance to development of Windward Pointe.
The property currently is undergoing $15 million in state-funded environmental cleanup of PFAS (acronym for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) contamination left from its paper mill days.
Rooks pointed out that Parkland has experience with contaminated sites, having developed the 70-unit Terrace Point Landing neighborhood, also on Muskegon Lake, which had been the site of the large Teledyne/Continental Motors factory.
Assuming approvals are given, “full scale construction work” at the site will start in 2024 with the capping of some contaminated areas and the construction of roads and utilities, he wrote.
Within five years, the expectation is that redevelopment of the site will be “well underway,” Rooks wrote.
The preliminary development plan includes:
- 107 34-by-150-foot lots, along the waterfront. Homes would be two stories with basements.
- 114 lots that are 26 and 22 feet by 205 feet, many of them on the waterfront. Homes would be two stories with basements.
- 57 three- to five-story, 10- to 12-unit condo/apartment buildings.
- 21 48-unit, four-story condo/apartment buildings.
- 10 townhome buildings with 35 units.
- Mixed-use retail/residential buildings containing 50 apartments.
- A marina with 224 slips that would be 40, 45, 50 and 60 feet long. Of those, 31 of the 50-foot slips would be public. A public boardwalk would be part of the marina’s west breakwall.
- An indoor boat storage building measuring 155 feet by 720 feet with 350 storage spaces and in/out service.
- Five public “parklets” with waterfront access and fishing docks and two public kayak launches.
- Several clubhouses and pools as well as sports courts.
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https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/...lic-parks.html
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