Kalamazoo Township -
This is pretty big dreaming for the relatively-small township of ~ 22,500 persons (of which I am currently 1). The purchase of ~17-acres of land at
3006 Douglas Avenue for $1 million was approved at a meeting on September 9 -
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How Kalamazoo Township could pay for new $50M fire station, police/township hall
Audrey Whitaker | MLive
October 6, 2024
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI — Kalamazoo Township wants to rebuild a fire station, its police headquarters and Township Hall in 2025, but it will likely need extra taxpayer support to get it done. Just how much taxpayers will be asked to contribute to the $50 million project will be up to the newly-elected township board after the Nov. 5 election...
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$50M project planned to build new township hall, police headquarters
September 10, 2024
Audrey Whitaker | MLive
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI -- On a typical weekday in Kalamazoo Township’s police department, eight employees sit in a space built in 1977 to accommodate four people. Employees squeeze past each other. Equipment won’t fit in designed storage areas. Employees in the florescent-lit office must tune out the chatter of conversations that seep though the movable walls...
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If plans move forward, the township could eventually relocate its center of services from the east side to the west side, from a tight, urban island parcel to a relatively huge, semi-rural site. It's unclear what portion of the below property would go to the township (it currently reads as a singular, 74-acre parcel on public records, so presumably there is some subdividing in play) -
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Google Maps, October 11, 2024