Ann Arbor’s City Place continues its long strange journey
City Place is still trying to find its place in downtown Ann Arbor.Excerpt:It’s difficult to describe the City Place development without rolling your eyes, scratching your head or just throwing up your arms and walking away.That’s what the Ann Arbor City Council did Monday night, sending the controversial project back to the Planning Commission for further review and public comment. The latest reason for delay – errors in the documents.The development has been kicked around and reshaped in a number of different ways. The latest version calls for a suburban-style apartment building with no sustainable features on the edge of downtown. Ann Arbor builders plan to tear down seven historic homes, including one of the city’s oldest, along Fifth Avenue just north of Packard to make way for the project.Read the rest of the story here.
City Place is still trying to find its place in downtown Ann Arbor.
Excerpt:
It’s difficult to describe the City Place development without rolling your eyes, scratching your head or just throwing up your arms and walking away.
That’s what the Ann Arbor City Council did Monday night, sending the controversial project back to the Planning Commission for further review and public comment. The latest reason for delay – errors in the documents.
The development has been kicked around and reshaped in a number of different ways. The latest version calls for a suburban-style apartment building with no sustainable features on the edge of downtown. Ann Arbor builders plan to tear down seven historic homes, including one of the city’s oldest, along Fifth Avenue just north of Packard to make way for the project.
Read the rest of the story here.
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