Portage -
I've not been keeping close tabs on Kalamazoo's ever-suburbanizing neighbor to the south. It's usually less-interesting development to me, and it's just hard to celebrate sprawl. Because of that attitude, I missed some things that will bring a little more density to the city. While updating the project rundown in the
opening post of this thread, I noticed two substantive residential projects planned for Portage.
The first is StoryPoint South, a 3-story, 177,000 SF / 172-unit senior housing development at
8150 Creekside Drive. According to
MLive, this was expected to break ground last May, so I will have to swing by there to see where things are really at. The facility will have studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments, grouped in a memory care wing, assisted living wing, enhanced living wing and 93 independent living apartments. It will compliment the existing StoryPoint Portage facility that is located at
3951 W Milham Avenue.
Source:
MLive | City of Portage
The second project is Kings Landing, a 95-unit apartment and townhome complex, to be located at the
SE corner of Constitutional Blvd. and MLK Dr. (directly across from the new Dr. MLK Jr. Park). The proposal consists of two three-story buildings and one four-story building (which qualifies as a high-rise, by Portage standards). 82 apartment flats and 13 townhomes. Of the apartments, 33 would be one-bedroom units and 49 would be two-bedroom units. The project was approved in late-2022 and it required a rezoning from RM-1 multifamily to planned development in one of the last remaining developable plats of land from the original Romence and Snow family farms. More info -
Source:
MLive | Integrated Architecture | Provided By City of Portage