Hi SSP friends. Here are just a few miscellaneous updates -
Kalamazoo -
KRESA Career Connect Campus - opening spring 2025 - here is a fly-over video from July 2024 (turn down the volume unless you love cheesy public domain music) -
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A
ten home development is in the planning stages for the Eastside Neighborhood, at
700 River St. (right on the edge of what I think is a floodplain). It is currently dubbed "Ampersee Housing, with Playgrown listed as the developer. Several smallish (not tiny) home models -
Site plan -
The 2-Story Bungalow B option -
Source:
The City of Kalamazoo | Hurley & Stewart / Intersect Studio
Seelye Auto is planning a building addition for a car wash and new EV charging station at their dealership at
3802 Stadium Drive. It's the "metal siding special", and it's about
as bland as you could get, design-wise. Still, something to document for the day when I get around to making a Kalamazoo-focused "car wash wars" documentary -
Source:
The City of Kalamazoo | Bosch Architecture
Vicksburg -
Restoration of the downtown "Hills Buildings" (at 106 and 108 S. Main) continues (led by the same team behind the Vicksburg Mill project) -
Cornice detail -
A view of the mill, from their new wildflower fields (I'm pretty sure that's the backside of the owner, Chris) -
Source:
The Vicksburg Mill