[DetroitMan]

5-story Ann Arbor housing development proposed next to former brewery

A new housing development is proposed to rise next to an old brewery building in Ann Arbor.

The newly unveiled plans call for new apartments at 1329 and 1333 Jones Drive, next to the former Northern Brewery.

The 1886 brewery building, later converted into a foundry and now offices, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been home in recent years to the Tech Brewery co-working space and nonprofit Avalon Housing. The new development now proposed next door is slated to rise on a vacant lot used by Avalon as an extra parking lot and the adjacent property where Arbor Springs Water Co., which used to deliver bottled water around town, closed in recent years. The old Arbor Springs website now redirects to Absopure, another Michigan-based bottled water company. The development proposal calls for demolishing the structures on the former Arbor Springs property at 1333 Jones Drive (also known as 1440 Plymouth Road) and rezoning the site from its current planned unit development or PUD zoning for water bottling facilities to R4E, a multi-family residential zoning.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor...r-brewery.html