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'Game-changing' office and residential towers slated for downtown parking lot
By Jim Harger. MLive. November 9th, 2015.

Warner Norcross & Judd, one of the city's oldest and largest law firms, announced it will move into new office and residential towers planned for a parking lot at the corner of Ottawa Avenue and Lyon Street NE.

Slated to open in 2019, the towers – between 14 and 17 stories high -- will fill a parking lot that covers three-quarters of a city block and will include frontage along Lyon and Pearl streets and Ottawa and Ionia avenues, said John Wheeler, president of Orion Real Estate Solutions.

ORES will partner with Midtown Properties – Pearl & Ottawa LLC and DTN Management to build the mixed-use development that will include market rate apartments and condominiums, according to joint announcement on Monday, Nov. 9.

Renderings of the building and details about its size and cost have not been finalized, Wheeler said. The building will be across the street from the Kent County Courthouse and the Waters Building, which is being renovated to include housing and a hotel.

The land has been used as a surface parking lot in the heart of downtown since 1966, when the Houseman Building was razed as part of the city's urban renewal movement. Wheeler said the new development will include a 500-space parking deck.

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