Portage -
MLive did an article outlining the building boom currently happening in Portage. It is incredible how much money is being invested into the area, primarily by two massive companies - Pfizer and Stryker - I calculate it to be more than $1.1 billion in development / construction-related dollars to be spend in the next five years. Some more detailed renderings of the planned $150 million+ Stryker corporate campus expansion development are included in the article, along with other construction progress photo updates -
Quote:
Construction in Portage on Pace not seen since Great Recession
Brad Devereaux | MLive
March 29, 2017
PORTAGE, MI -- New construction value in Portage is on pace to outperform every other year since the Great Recession, figures for the first half of this fiscal year show. And that doesn't include some of Portage's biggest industrial projects ever, planned for the near future but still in the pre-construction phase...
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Renderings of Stryker Instruments -
Construction progress at Trade Centre III. This will be five stories when complete - so tall, a height variance was required
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Construction progress at Pfizer's new cold storage warehouse, on Portage Rd -
A rendering of the finished warehouse at Pfizer -
Also included with the article were 'before and after' aerial views of the City of Portage. The black and white image is taken in 1950, and the color image from 2015. You can see I-94 snaking along the north edge of the image in the 2015 aerial, as well as the explosive suburban growth along the S. Westnedge corridor. The Kalamazoo International Airport is top right, and Pfizer is south of that -
Source:
MLive