Ann Arbor Construction updates

[DetroitMan]

Ann Arbor giving up future roadway rights to make way for big development

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