Development News

The Fifth Royal Oak move in set for mid August

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

Downtown Royal Oak gets its biggest and newest skyscraper with eighteen story The Fifth Royal Oak. Residents start moving in mid-August.

Downtown Living

Royal Oak

Downtown Northville starts work on parking improvement project

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

Northville is focusing on improving and expanding its parking options in its city center.

Northville

Construction nearly complete on Wyandotte City Garden Condos

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

New Port-based developers Dahlquist Ryan Builders just finished building the first of City Garden's downtown condominiums.

Downtown Living

Wyandotte

Downtown Pontiac housing study due to be released in August

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

The Pontiac Downtown Development Authority expects a study on housing realities and possibilities for the downtown area to be finished in August.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment

Pontiac

Mt. Clemens streetscape project moving forward

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

Mt. Clemens has chosen Northville-based Grissim Metz Andriese to head up the $3.8-million Downtown Mount Clemens Streetscape Improvement Project.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment

Mt. Clemens

State pledges $1.5 million for Ann Arbor commuter rail line

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

Money and near unanimous support from local officials are bringing the proposed U.S. 23 commuter rail line close to becoming the first rapid transit system in Metro Detroit in decades.

Ann Arbor

Residents set to move into newly completed 300 Hamilton in downtown Plymouth

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

The first occupants of the 300 Hamilton loft development in downtown Plymouth are moving in this month shortly after construction wraps up.

Downtown Living

Plymouth

New Warren downtown moving forward, new HQ construction wrapping up

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

Slowly but steadily, Warren is making progress at creating a true city center.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment

Ann Arbor Greenbelt Program makes sixth purchase, controls 700 acres

Source: metromode, 7/26/2007

Quality Of Life , Regionalism , Sustainability

Ann Arbor

3 rapid transit alignments in running for Detroit, Hamtramck & Dearborn

Source: Model D, 7/26/2007

The Detroit Department of Transportation is hosting a series of public meetings to receive input on three potential alignments for rapid transit in the four cities it services: Dearborn, Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park.

Transit , Transportation

Dearborn , Detroit , Hamtramck

Wayne County purchases Guardian Building, will consolidate offices

Source: Model D, 7/24/2007

Wayne County

Construction wraps up on 849 Penniman Ave. in downtown Plymouth

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Construction on the 849 Penniman Ave project in downtown Plymouth is done.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment

Plymouth

Mt. Clemens gets Wi-Fi service up and running for downtown

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Mt Clemens' pilot Wi-Fi program is now providing service to the core of the downtown.

Downtown Living , Internet

Mt. Clemens

Sales are brisk at Eton Street Station in downtown Birmingham

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Crosswinds Communities are enjoying sales brisk at its Eton Street Station development in downtown Birmingham.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment

Birmingham

Crosswinds getting ready to relaunch Stonegate Pointe development in Pontiac

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Crosswinds Communities is planning to pick up the slack for other developers and finish off the Stonegate Pointe development in Pontiac in the second half of this year.

Pontiac

AA's Liberty Lofts nearly sold out

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Award-winning Liberty Lofts, one of downtown Ann Arbor's most significant projects in decades, has experienced brisk sales with only four units left for sale.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment

Ann Arbor

TRU meeting focusing on transit-oriented development set for Tuesday

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Transportation Riders United will present examples from across the country about how major cities have harnessed billions of dollars in investment for dense, urban, mixed-use development by developing mass transit systems at their big summer meeting on Tuesday night, July 24th. Be there or be square!

Transit

Money names Farmington, Plymouth in top 100 places to live in U.S.

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Farmington and Plymouth residents have a little more swagger in their step after Money Magazine named them in their "Best Places to Live: Top 100" for 2007.

Identity , Quality Of Life

Farmington , Plymouth

Apple Store set to stage grand opening in Ann Arbor

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Apple opens its third Metro Detroit store in Ann Arbor this weekend.

Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor named a Solar America City by U.S. Dept of Energy

Source: metromode, 7/19/2007

Ann Arbor has been named as one of the lucky 13 cities from across the country to serve as a "Solar American City" by the U.S. Dept of Energy.

Green Building , Sustainability

Ann Arbor