Columnist details stalled state of $2 billion project by owner of Ann Arbor's Georgetown Mall
The tale of Ann Arbor's vacant Georgetown Mall is still unfolding in this community.
Owner Craig Schubiner is promising new plans for the mall, the county is waiting for payment of 2008 and 2009 taxes now that 2006 and 2007 are paid up, and community members are watching the Packard Road property for signs of blight. Meanwhile, a new mortgage holder - Value Ann Arbor Management LLC, registered in Delaware - bought a loan associated with the property.
Meanwhile, about 50 miles northeast of Ann Arbor, a second of Schubiner's projects sits in limbo - also a product, at least in part, of some complicated legal wrangling.
Columnist Laura Berman of the Detroit News took a look at the $2 billion Bloomfield Park project in today's edition.
An excerpt: "With its naked girders and half-built looming structures, some seven stories tall, the remaining shells of Bloomfield Park's structures evoke comparisons to Mayan ruins or a bombed-out war zone."
Read her column here.
Comments
John Q
Wed, May 5, 2010 : 1:56 p.m.
Bloomfield Park is located in Pontiac.
Julisa
Tue, May 4, 2010 : 1:14 p.m.
OMG. I had no idea that both places were owned by the same developer. I live by G.Mall and my old employer's old office was across from this Bloomfield blight--unlike GMall that is located within a residential area, BPlaza is the Northern most part of Bloomfield Hills(
Paula Gardner
Tue, May 4, 2010 : 7:05 a.m.
Ah, Picker, indeed it is east! Correction is made.
The Picker
Tue, May 4, 2010 : 7 a.m.
Sorry to be a Picker but, Its Northeast of here!
iceman
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 3:42 p.m.
Level it.In the fall it's good parking for football,and shuttle staging area $$$$$$ And in spring and summer a south side open air market and music venue. Or does everyone just want Krogers back.
Julisa
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 2:40 p.m.
OMG. I had no idea that both places were owned by the same developer. I live by G.Mall and my old employer's old office was across from this Bloomfield blight--unlike GMall that is located within a residential area, BPlaza is the Northern most part of Bloomfield Hills(
Ignatz
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 2:30 p.m.
@tdw, Get back to me in about 100 years on that! :-)
tdw
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 1:04 p.m.
@ Ignatz I donn't think that a fair compairison at least it has a roof and walls
Bonsai
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 1:04 p.m.
Mayan ruins? um.... not really.
Ignatz
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 11:31 a.m.
This guy's making Beal look like Trump!
John Q
Mon, May 3, 2010 : 11:03 a.m.
Don't hold your breath waiting on this guy.