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Developers unveil plans for boutique hotel on vacant Glen Avenue site
By Ryan Stanton. July 8, 2015.

Developers behind a proposed nine-story, mixed-use hotel and retail development in Ann Arbor offered the city's Planning Commission a first look at their initial concept Tuesday night.

Known as The Glen, the upscale boutique hotel envisioned by Craig Singer and Fred Goldberg, working together as the Catherine Ann Development Company, could bring new life to a long-vacant site on the west side of Glen Avenue between Catherine and Ann streets at the edge of the Old Fourth Ward Historic District.

The property, once slated for a nine-story apartment development that never happened, sits across from the University of Michigan's medical campus.

Singer said they purchased the property about 18 months ago and have been considering potential uses. It's their hope the hotel could open by late 2016 or early 2017 with approval from the city.

Described as a roughly 152,000-square-foot, mixed-use project, The Glen would include 194 hotel rooms, including 34 suites, as well as sizable banquet and meeting room spaces, including a main ballroom accommodating 550 or more people.

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The hotel's architects are Neumann/Smith of Southfield and J. Bradley Moore and Associates of Ann Arbor.

The Planning Commission held a special work session Tuesday night to hear initial ideas from the development team.

The conceptual plans are still being refined and the designs are subject to change based on community input, but initial drawings show a building featuring a combination of brick, glass and stone serving as a transition between the historic district to the west and various contemporary university buildings to the east.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/.../the_glen.html