Traverse City -
Here are three more substantial cancelled projects from Traverse City in the past five years (and a current update on where things are at with each site today) -
1. Grandview Place
Original plans in 2016 - 2017 called for 48 condos and almost 36,000 SF of ground floor commercial space, including an indoor market intended for dozens of vendors ($35.5 million investment). This would have been built at
201, 211, and 221 W. Grandview Parkway, next to the Hotel Indigo. Plans fell through and the developer - Patti Mercer / Mercer Group LLC - put all three lots up for auction in early 2020, but they did not sell. The same developer still owns the land today and now has
plans for a four-story, 126-room hotel.
2017 Rendering of the cancelled Grandview Place Condo / Mixed-Use Project -
Source:
Traverse City Record-Eagle
2. Warehouse Flats
Original plans in 2016 called for a 150-unit apartment building with 250 parking spaces and 10,000 square feet of commercial space. But the developer, Thom Darga / Dargaworks Inc. could not get through all of the permitting requirements / local politics, and, after a frustrated redesign attempt, pulled the plug near the end of 2017. The site was then purchased by Kalamazoo-based Brian Mullally / Innovo Development Group, which went on to design & build the recently-completed Breakwater Apartments (
posted about earlier).
Warehouse Flats Conceptual Rendering from 2016 -
Source:
The Ticker
3. Pine Street Development One / River West
Coming to light around 2015, this massive proposal (relatively speaking) would have resulted in two 9-story buildings, built at the
Southwest corner of W. Front & Pine Streets. Proposed by local developer Mansfield Land Use Consultants, it would have included 162 apartments and 25,000 square feet of retail space. This ambitious development was ultimately shut down by residents and local officials opposed to buildings with this much height & density in the city. I found one quote particularly ironic - a resident in the adjacent, 9-story Riverview Terrace criticizing the 9-story development for being too tall
Today, this is the site of the u/c
4Front Credit Union HQ building and a scaled back proposal -
309 W. Front St. (both posted about previously).
2015 Renderings -
Source:
Detroit Free Press