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First look at $146M redevelopment plan for Ann Arbor's Lower Town site
By Ryan Stanton. MLive Ann Arbor. February 6, 2017.







The developer behind a $146 million redevelopment of a vacant swath of land off Broadway Street and Maiden Lane says environmental stewardship, affordability and sustainability are goals of the project.

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The newly unveiled plans for 1140 Broadway St. include two apartment buildings and a condo building, plus a small amount of retail space.

Mucha said the details still are being finalized, but tentatively he expects there would be about 530 apartments altogether between the two apartment buildings, and then about 70 condos in the other building.


Though his company is based in Chicago, Mucha is an Ann Arbor resident. He said he wants to see a proper redevelopment of the long-vacant Lower Town property where another developer's plans stalled several years ago.

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Morningside is working with Illinois-based HKM Architects and Planners Inc. on the designs. Mucha emphasized the drawings presented at Monday's meeting are not yet final and they are being further refined. He said revised drawings are expected to be presented at a public meeting Wednesday night.

"There's a concerted effort to do good architecture here, in contrast to some of the projects that were recently being built," he said. "There's going to be significant massing articulation, steps in the massing. There's going to be various colors and textures and materials, different cornice treatments."

Mucha said a lot of attention will be given to activating Maiden Lane, where there are other neighboring apartment and condo residences.

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