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Old Posted Apr 17, 2024, 8:53 PM
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Ann Arbor giving up future roadway rights to make way for big development

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Ann Arbor has agreed to give up future roadway rights along State Street and Eisenhower Parkway to help facilitate a new mixed-use development.

City Council voted unanimously and without discussion Monday night, April 15, to approve releasing the city’s right-of-way rights along the edges of property owned by Oxford Companies.

City staff support releasing the rights because further widening of State Street and Eisenhower Parkway there is no longer contemplated and it will allow development of the land, City Planner Alexis DiLeo told council in a memo. Oxford is teaming up with Ohio-based developer Crawford Hoying on a proposed 20-acre development including over 1,000 new housing units, a 150-room hotel and over 100,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

The city obtained rights in the 1970s to a 50-foot-wide strip of land along the western edge of property at 2845 S. State St. for possible future right-of-way needs, as well as a 27-foot-wide strip along the north side of Eisenhower, DiLeo said.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor...velopment.html
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2024, 9:43 PM
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5-story Ann Arbor housing development proposed next to former brewery

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A new housing development is proposed to rise next to an old brewery building in Ann Arbor.

The newly unveiled plans call for new apartments at 1329 and 1333 Jones Drive, next to the former Northern Brewery.

The 1886 brewery building, later converted into a foundry and now offices, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been home in recent years to the Tech Brewery co-working space and nonprofit Avalon Housing. The new development now proposed next door is slated to rise on a vacant lot used by Avalon as an extra parking lot and the adjacent property where Arbor Springs Water Co., which used to deliver bottled water around town, closed in recent years. The old Arbor Springs website now redirects to Absopure, another Michigan-based bottled water company. The development proposal calls for demolishing the structures on the former Arbor Springs property at 1333 Jones Drive (also known as 1440 Plymouth Road) and rezoning the site from its current planned unit development or PUD zoning for water bottling facilities to R4E, a multi-family residential zoning.
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Old Posted Apr 23, 2024, 9:32 PM
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$62.4M in state loans to help bring 250 affordable housing units to Ann Arbor

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A big affordable housing development in Ann Arbor is getting ready to break ground with a sizable funding boost from the state of Michigan.

The Michigan State Housing Development Authority approved loans for multiple affordable housing developments across the state at its April board meeting.

That includes loans totaling $62.4 million, including a $46.7 million construction loan, for the Union at A2, a project slated to rise at 2050 Commerce Drive between Maple Road and Stadium Boulevard on Ann Arbor’s west side. MSHDA describes it as a 250-unit development that will include 151 one-bedroom units, 68 two-bedroom units and 31 three-bedroom units for families with incomes ranging from 30% to 70% of the area median. Additionally, 26 units are designed to be accessible for people with disabilities.

The Annex Group, an Indianapolis-based developer, has been working on plans for the project with design firm BKV Group and local architect Brad Moore.

City Council approved incentives for the project in February 2023 so the development will be exempt from property taxes and instead pay an annual city fee of $1 per housing unit. The development site is the former corporate office location for Select Ride, a taxicab and limousine business that moved out several years ago. Plans have been in the works to redevelop the site for years, going back to a Chicago developer getting plans approved for 267 market-rate apartments in 2018.

The newer proposal from The Annex Group has been described as workforce housing, something Ann Arbor officials say is lacking in the city.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor...ann-arbor.html
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U.S. Navy to build $14.5M research center at University of Michigan
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The U.S. Office of Naval Research plans to build a new research center at the University of Michigan.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the development of the Center for Naval Research and Education Saturday at UM's commencement ceremony. The $14.5 million center will help train an engineering research community familiar with naval and marine applications, as well as provide students with opportunities to gain direct experience working with Navy engineers.

“I am incredibly proud of the partnership between the University of Michigan and the Department of the Navy. Michigan is a key teammate in rebuilding our shipbuilding industry and restoring the comprehensive — commercial and naval — power of our nation," Del Toro said in a news release. "I am committed to growing our department's relationship. We truly would not have the world's most powerful Navy if not for our nearly 150-year partnership."

The center will build teams to tackle challenges pertaining to the impact of climate change on the maritime environment, advancements in artificial intelligence and more, according to the press release.

The four multidisciplinary teams at the center will be focused on studying how films of algae and bacteria impact vessel performance and how to prevent resulting performance issues, discovering ways to make vessels move more quietly through water, harnessing energy from waves, understanding flow-induced damage to design tougher hull materials and discovering ways to provide more control over vessel drag and maneuverability, such as morphable skin and highly water-repellent surfaces, according to the release.
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Old Posted May 7, 2024, 10:31 PM
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Controversial high-rise development gets Ann Arbor council’s unanimous OK

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[A 17-story apartment high-rise outside downtown Ann Arbor is now approved for development despite a fair amount of lingering controversy over it.

City Council voted unanimously Monday night, May 6, to approve the project at 711 Church St., a stone’s throw from other high-rises just up the street in the South University Avenue area near the University of Michigan campus.

The 273 new apartments with over 1,000 bedrooms are expected to cater to the need for more student housing as UM continues to grow. City officials also hope it helps relieve pressure on the overall housing market to help curb skyrocketing rents.Council heard heated arguments for and against the project during a public hearing Monday night.

Some agree there’s a desperate need for more housing and the growing pains the city is going through are worth it, while critics contend the project is out of scale with the neighborhood and some worry about the impacts on neighbors such as the Towsley Children’s House and Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

“When does this stop?” said Marc Gerstein, who is concerned it’s going to alter the character of his neighborhood.

“Is everything north of Hill Street to be open to high-rise development?” he asked. Critics of the project said more than 200 residents signed a petition against it.

Council Member Erica Briggs, D-5th Ward, said she was disturbed by the tone of the public hearing and how some residents treated others with animosity and disparagement. She urged residents to consider the impact of their words and be respectful of each other.

“I understand that this is a project with a lot of divergent viewpoints and it’s challenging as we grow,” she said, saying the city is wrestling with challenging issues and trying to figure out the best ways to solve them.

A row of old residential structures already has been cleared along Church Street to make way for the high-rise. Two more houses along Willard Street will be next to go, as Texas-based developer LV Collective LLC plans to go forward with demolition in June.
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I’m all for density but some better formed massing and architecture needs to rescue these clumsy designs. I’ve found the best urban density to be tall and narrow buildings peppered into the 2-3 story original urban fabric.
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Old Posted May 9, 2024, 8:47 PM
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A 19-story Apartment tower has been proposed for the site of Rick's Nightclub. The club will be saved however.


Ann Arbor high-rise proposed with new basement spot for Rick’s nightclub

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Another high-rise development is proposed in the South University Avenue area in Ann Arbor, this time in the longtime spot of Rick’s American Cafe.

But the iconic nightclub with a long history near the University of Michigan campus going back to the 1970s isn’t going away — it would have a home within the basement of the new development, according to plans submitted to the city.

Chicago-based developer Core Spaces is working on the project with Schenk Realty, DLR Group and J Bradley Moore and Associates. They have unveiled plans for a 19-story apartment building at 611 Church St., south of the Brown Jug bar and extending south down the block. The new building would rise 195 feet tall, with a rooftop pool deck and solar panels, and with 204 apartments likely serving UM students with a mix of units ranging from two to six bedrooms. In addition to the longtime home of Rick’s and other businesses, other structures to the south would be demolished, including the home of the Bopjib Korean restaurant. Multiple commercial spaces in the Rick’s building are already empty, including the former Amer’s Deli and Dollar Bill Printing spaces.

The ground floor of the new high-rise, pending city approval, is expected to include amenity and lobby space, plus about 9,000 square feet of retail space, including mezzanine retail space. Rick’s would return as a flagship tenant in 6,000 square feet of subterranean space after construction is complete, plans state, noting the area is “ground zero” for UM student nightlife, dominated by bars and restaurants that are among a growing number of student-focused apartment high-rises.

City Administrator Milton Dohoney vaguely alluded to the development in a budget presentation to City Council in April, saying he was in discussions with Core about selling the air rights to 616 S. Forest Ave., where the city’s Forest Avenue parking deck is located, to allow Core to build up and over the city-owned property. Dohoney and Core weren’t saying any more about the development then, but Dohoney told council the air rights deal could net $1.2 million for the city.

Representatives for Core and the city have since confirmed the development would not actually go over the parking deck, just next to it and over part of the public alley behind it on the Church Street side, as that’s part of the same city-owned property.
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Old Posted May 9, 2024, 8:49 PM
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4-story affordable apartment building proposed on Ann Arbor’s west side

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Avalon Housing has unveiled plans to build another 39 affordable apartments on Ann Arbor’s west side.

The local nonprofit developer presented a proposal for phase three of its Hickory Way Apartments development to the city’s Planning Commission on Tuesday night, May 7.

The complex already includes 70 affordable housing units built in two phases in recent years and now Avalon proposes another building rising four stories at 1146 S. Maple Road. The development site is along the west side of Maple Road north of Pauline Boulevard and south of Liberty Street. Apartments would be reserved for people with incomes up to 60% of the area median and the plan is to make about half of them supportive housing with wraparound services for formerly unhoused residents, according to Avalon.

Washtenaw County saw a 31% decrease in chronic homelessness after Avalon opened the first two phases of Hickory Way, the agency previously reported.

The third phase is proposed as a planned unit development with special PUD zoning, which needs to go through both the Planning Commission and City Council for approval, along with annexation of Scio Township property into the city.
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Old Posted May 9, 2024, 8:50 PM
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I do agree that Ann Arbor does need a nice skinny tower that's at least 30 stories.
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Old Posted May 14, 2024, 9:04 PM
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U-M has released updated plans and maps for their 2050 campus master plan. What really has me excited are the plans for an automated transit system between the Central Campus and North Campus. The system would be elevated and will probably be similar to the people mover. More details are supposed to be released about this system in the coming weeks. Also, a BRT line is planned to connect South Campus and North Campus.

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It may be 25 years in the future, but long-term development plans at the University of Michigan are coming into focus.

Campus Plan 2050, which addresses mobility, energy, land use and other projects on the Ann Arbor campus during the next quarter century, has new drafts of its development plans.

The maps that provide frameworks for those plans are available at campusplan2050.umich.edu/#overview. They include aerial looks at layouts for the Central, Medical, Ross Athletic and North campuses, as well as the transit system, sustainable infrastructure and land-use plans. Campus Plan 2050 is the manifestation of the university’s Vision 2034 initiative, which sought to “define what UM wants to accomplish,” officials have said.

“The physical plan is creating facilities to support that,” said Sue Gott, the university’s associate director for planning and communication. “The vision is Vision 2034, and our facilities support that.”

The new drafts incorporate many elements of previous campus proposals, including the 2008 master plan that called for redevelopment of the North Woods around the North Campus Research Complex, Gott said. Other elements, such as the 2016 discussions on the Detroit Connector, are being considered, she said, but do not appear on the maps.

“We just wanted to make sure it’s understood (that) we haven’t completely abandoned those things,” she said of plans mulled over the last two decades.One of the new drafts shows the automated transit system that would connect the Central Campus transit area as far as the North Campus Research Complex off Plymouth Road. Automated means a transit system that does not have a driver, Gott said, and the university’s would operate on an elevated guideway.

More information on that project will be made available in the coming weeks, officials said. There will also be a bus rapid transit system that builds on the current one with “high-efficiency, high-capacity” technology, officials said.

The maps also reveal many areas for sustainability developments such as the geothermal exchange wells that reduce carbon by controlling heat in facilities with sub-surface resources. The areas with the most potential for these wells are the maintenance and power facilities surrounding Michigan Stadium and much of North Campus such as the proposed Leinweber Building and its accompanying geothermal facility. Rather that convert all campus energy to geothermal, it is more cost-effective to pick and choose areas, officials have previously told MLive. A full conversion campus-wide would cost about $3 billion, Drew Horning, UM’s interim assistant vice president for campus sustainability, said in March 2023.
Much of the development plans center on transforming North Campus, from an Innovation District to promote more variety in classes and research to a new hotel and conference center to a pedestrian connection to Central Campus.

The desire is to have the Ann Arbor campus operate as one campus rather than three individual ones between the North, Central and South ones, Gott said.

“One way North Campus benefits is by this more direct connectivity,” she said. Many of the maps show potential development areas in blue. North Campus has much of its open and green space color-coded this way, particularly north of the engineering and drama buildings and around the research complex.

Gott said the color-coded designations are not set-in-stone developments, stressing they are potential ones.

“We’re just continuing to show roughly what we think is available for development over the next 25 years,” she said.

North Campus is a focus for possible development since the land is already owned by the university, Gott said. If a building will be demolished for a project, it currently projects to be one in university hands, she added.

“We are not showing any demolitions,” she said of the new drafted plans. “It is only the land that we own that we’re we’re showing in these plans.”

The university had to purchase private properties in Ann Arbor to make possible future student housing developments. While the first phase of the Central Campus Housing Complex utilized the old Elbel Field, the second phase was made possible by the Board of Regents approving $75 million to acquire 49 properties last year.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor...ding-plan.html

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Developer drops plan for controversial high-rise near downtown Ann Arbor

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St. Louis-based student housing developer Subtext is dropping its plans for a high-rise apartment development near downtown Ann Arbor.

The project is not happening now, a representative for the development team confirmed, declining further comment.

Subtext’s proposal to rezone 22 properties on a neighborhood block just south of downtown for high-density development sparked controversy and pushback from neighbors and others when it was introduced in 2023. The development would have replaced most of the block of homes and apartments bound by Packard Street, Fifth Avenue, Fourth Avenue and Madison Street. Fifth Avenue resident Claudius Vincenz, whose home is across from where the development was proposed, is among those rejoicing that it’s not happening now.

“If the past is any indicator, these assaults on the neighborhood come every 10 years, so we should have peace for 10 years,” he said, adding he hopes the next development proposed in the neighborhood is more modest in size — something between what stands today and what Subtext proposed.

Not everyone is happy about the developer dropping its plans, though.

“It’s unfortunate,” said Council Member Jen Eyer, D-4th Ward, who hopes a new housing development of some kind still could happen on the block.

“I know there were feelings about the height and scale of it, but it was going to bring a lot of housing that we desperately need,” she said. “I do want to figure out what went wrong here.”

When the project went before the city’s Design Review Board in December, board members agreed with critics a high-rise standing 13 stories at its tallest point would have been too big and out of scale with the neighborhood.
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Affordable senior housing with ‘a feeling of luxury’ proposed in Ann Arbor

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A four-story, mixed-use development with affordable housing for senior citizens is proposed in southeast Ann Arbor.

MHT Housing Inc. and Issa Properties are partnering on the Packard Place Apartments project at 3551 Packard Road, just west of the U.S. 23 highway.

Plans call for a single building with 49 one-bedroom apartments targeting seniors, with residences “efficiently designed to provide a feeling of luxury,” 4,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a parking lot behind the building. The development team plans to seek low-income housing tax credits through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority to designate the apartments as affordable.

That includes 12 apartments priced for people with incomes up to 30% of the area median, five for people at or below 40% AMI, nine at or below 60% and 23 at or below 80%.

“The wide range of incomes targeted in this development will allow for a diverse community and new housing options for households at every income level,” the proposal states.

Assuming the tax credits are approved, the development team aims to begin construction by the end of 2025.

The project is set to go before the city’s Planning Commission for initial review Tuesday night, June 4. It’s envisioned as a planned unit development, with the property proposed to be rezoned from R4A residential to special PUD zoning.

Every apartment is proposed to be equipped with “energy conscious appliances and other alluring amenities,” plans state.
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Sale of blighted property could lead to new housing in Ann Arbor
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Ann Arbor is entering negotiations with a local developer for the possible sale of a city-owned property on the west edge of downtown.

Despite objections from some residents, City Council voted 7-2 Monday night, June 3, to go forward with drawing up a sales agreement with 4M, the same developer behind the SouthTown project on State Street.

The city property in question is the blighted and polluted 415 W. Washington St. site across from the YMCA, where city officials have spent nearly two decades pondering the site’s future. City officials now are eyeing a possible major housing development to be led by 4M with affordability and sustainability components, though there’s some controversy over it.

The deteriorating buildings on the site were once used for various city operations that long ago relocated, leaving the property vacant since 2007 except for storage and parking use. After many years of discussion and debate about different ideas, council voted in April 2023 to approve a city-developed conceptual plan for a new building rising six stories with potentially 157 housing units. The plan leaves room for the Treeline trail on the site and aims to preserve an old chimney as chimney swift habitat.

With that plan pre-approved, the city has been trying to line up a developer, with needed environmental remediation work and other improvements to be financed through a brownfield tax-capture plan.

Some critics argue the city should go through a competitive request-for-proposals process and consider bids from multiple developers, while some also are concerned about building in a flood zone.

Ann Arbor resident Rita Mitchell called Monday night for a reversal of council’s decision to develop the site and a public explanation of how the selection of 4M came about.
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15-story Ann Arbor high-rise overlooking Domino’s Pizza approved despite legal threats

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City Council voted 9-0 to OK the Five Corners project Monday night, June 3, despite continued legal threats from an attorney for the landlord who owns the Domino’s property.

“We again rise to ask the council to give pause to this project,” attorney Andrew Sugerman told council. Sugerman reiterated his previously stated argument that the city had a legal obligation to give more consideration to the potential detrimental impacts of the development, including the shade it would cast on the smaller pizza shop building.

“This can be worked out outside of litigation,” he told council members, urging them to send the proposal back to the Planning Commission for further review. “Litigation is not our chosen forum. Please don’t force us into that.” Brett Lenart, the city’s planning manager, told council the development meets all of the city’s review standards and there’s no change in land use that would have a detrimental impact on surrounding properties or public utilities, as determined by an engineering staff review of water and sewer capacity.

The city doesn’t have standards for shade or wind impacts in any zoning district and the city’s planned unit development or PUD zoning standards do not require such analysis, he said.

The project achieves numerous city goals, including increasing housing density and sustainability while reducing reliance on automobiles, Lenart said.

There will be a loss of two landmark trees, but that’s a reasonable impact that will be mitigated, he said.

Council members concurred with Lenart’s take and approved the project, some expressing excitement about it.

Council Member Dharma Akmon, D-4th Ward, expressed hopes the increase in population will be a boost to local businesses. Some businesses along the corridor have struggled and there have been empty storefronts and constant rotation, she said.
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Pinball Pete’s building in Ann Arbor to be demolished for 17-story apartment tower

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The Galleria, home to the iconic Pinball Pete’s arcade and other businesses, was sold late last month for $18.35 million to an affiliate of Athens, Ga.-based Landmark Properties, according to a press release from Ann Arbor-based Oxford Cos., which previously owned the property through an affiliate, Galleria Associates LLC, and worked on brokering the deal. Site plans submitted to the city in February call for a 199-unit tower with 630 total bedrooms rising 195 feet at 1208-1214 S. University Ave. between Church Street to the west and South Forest Avenue to the east.

Site plans call for 42 studio units averaging 350 square feet; 14 one-bedroom units with 550 square feet; 29 two-bedroom units, almost all of which would be about 800 square feet; 71 four-bedroom units with about 1,400 square feet; 28 five-bedroom units averaging 1,560 square feet; and 15 six-bedroom units with 1,720 square feet. There would be about 4,000 square feet for a first-floor commercial tenant, and about 75 parking spaces would be on the ground and second floors, according to the plans. Residential units would start on the third floor.

Messages were sent to Landmark seeking details on the planned demolition and construction timeframes. The architect on the project is Chicago-based Myefski Architects Inc., while the general contractor is an in-house affiliate of Landmark.

MLive.com reported in April that Pinball Pete’s, a longtime popular Ann Arbor staple, has signed a 20-year lease in the Carver-Gunn Building at 500 E. Liberty St. about a mile to the northwest. The owner of Pinball Pete’s, Ted Arnold, told the publication that the lease is for about 12,000 square feet, a touch larger than its existing location.
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I really like this design of this tower. Very West Loopish...
19-story high-rise proposed on Ann Arbor’s South University Avenue

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National developer CRG, which has a regional office in Chicago, has unveiled plans for a new building with 149 apartments and 599 beds catering to University of Michigan students. CRG is leading the development venture, which also includes Shapack Partners and Hughes Properties.

The development site at 1201-1213 South University Ave. includes vacant property where the eclectic Middle Earth shop once stood and a row of existing businesses: the Oasis Mediterranean Grill, Motivation clothing shop, Sweeting boba tea cafe and a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop.

The new building would rise immediately to the west of University Towers, which was built in the 1960s. CRG aims to get the project approved and completed in time to welcome UM students for the 2027-28 school year.

Students who live in the building would have a short walk to the Diag and major university buildings, as well as direct access to all the businesses along the South U corridor, CRG notes.

Chapter is CRG’s national collection of upscale, multi-family and student housing developments designed to provide spaces and experiences that help residents write their life story with greater intention, according to the developer.

“Each project is designed to offer residents the opportunity to not just live well, but also enjoy a home where experiences work together with the design to fuel one simple idea: help people write their next chapter,” CRG said in a statement.

JJ Smith, CRG executive vice president, previously was involved in the 14-story Landmark high-rise development on South U while at CA Ventures, which partnered with developer Ron Hughes of Hughes Properties on the 606-bed student housing project completed in 2012.
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Nice to see the South University high rise boom continuing! That area is going to be a real urban canyon in the next 5-10 years at this rate.
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7-story condo development proposed to replace Ann Arbor’s Braun Court

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A seven-story, 37-unit condo development is proposed to replace Ann Arbor’s Braun Court.

The once-bustling commercial courtyard in downtown Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown district has been declining for years as establishments like Aut Bar and Common Language Bookstore have closed or moved out and spaces have sat empty.

Ann Arbor real estate developer Wickfield Properties has been gradually acquiring the seven properties that make up Braun Court and had control of all but two as of 2022. The last two holdouts were The Bar at 327 Braun Court and Trillium Real Estate.

The bar announced in April it was closing and Trillium also is expected to move out as a sale of the company’s property to Wickfield is pending. “We are closed with the bar and closing with Trillium in a few weeks,” Wickfield’s Brad Hayosh said of the last real estate transactions needed to make way for redevelopment.

Spiral Tattoo is still a tenant in one of the buildings Wickfield purchased in 2019.

Working with Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, Wickfield has submitted plans to the city for a development awaiting review by the city’s Design Review Board before proceeding through the city’s approval process. All existing buildings would be demolished to make way for new condos.
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Billionaire Ross' company to co-develop Ann Arbor affordable housing project

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Chicago-based Related Midwest will co-develop with the Ann Arbor Housing Commission a dual-tower project on a site currently used as public parking at 350 S. Fifth Ave., which 20 years ago was the site of the Ann Arbor YMCA, according to a Wednesday news release. Late last year the Ann Arbor Housing Commission issued a request for proposals for the proposed development, as Crain's reported at the time. “With a reputation for delivering community-enriching affordable housing and a strong track record in Michigan, Related Midwest is the ideal partner for this highly anticipated project,” Jennifer Hall, executive director of the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, said in the release. “We look forward to leveraging their development and multifamily finance expertise to achieve the highest level of affordability across the greatest number of units, ensuring this site will once again serve the people of Ann Arbor."

Plans call for 260-300 rental units, with a minimum of 100 units available for those earning up to 60% of the region's area median income, or less than $52,080 annually for one person, according to figures from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. The balance of the units will be targeted toward moderate-income households.

A Related spokesperson said additional details, including a construction timeline, will be released as the development progresses.

Related Midwest touts having more than 10,000 units of below-market-rate housing within its portfolio. Related is working with the billionaire Ilitch family on the proposed District Detroit development around Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit.
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