The last of seven houses on South Fifth Avenue in Ann Arbor was demolished on Friday afternoon to make way for City Place student apartments. Several passersby stopped to watch as the house was reduced to rubble, all in agreement that it was a sad day.
There's a big pile of rubble on South Fifth Avenue where a century-old house once stood, and soon six other houses surrounding it will be leveled.
The tree-cutting comes as the developer is seeking to have utilities shut off. Both are precursors to demolition, Ann Arbor officials said.
These seven houses on South Fifth Avenue near downtown Ann Arbor are expected to be knocked down soon to make way for boxy apartment buildings and surface parking.A last-ditch effort by Mike Anglin to stop the controversial City Place apartments project died a slow death Monday night at a special ...
Ann Arbor developer Alex de Parry has offered a rebuttal to claims that miscalculations on his part are to blame for the apparent inviability of the Heritage Row apartments project. City Council Member Carsten Hohnke, D-5th Ward, said last week he talked to Jeff Helminski, the new developer of the ...
Ann Arbor officials say they're making progress in negotiations with the developer of City Place apartments and hopeful they can avoid demolition of seven houses along Fifth Avenue. City Council Member Carsten Hohnke, who has been in talks with developer Jeff Helminski, expressed his growing confidence earlier this week that ...
Key to the negotiations to bring back Heritage Row instead of City Place could involve granting the developer rights to some spaces in the city's new underground parking deck.
Tenants of seven houses that could be demolished soon to make way for the controversial City Place apartments in Ann Arbor are scrambling to find new places to live. A number of them talked with AnnArbor.com this past week, most indicating they've been told by landlord Alex de Parry they ...
Confidential documents obtained by AnnArbor.com show the development team is poised to move forward soon with demolishing seven houses along South Fifth Avenue near downtown Ann Arbor to make way for two new apartment buildings and a 36-space parking lot.
Seven houses along Fifth Avenue would be demolished to make way for the two apartment buildings and surface parking lot included in the plans for City Place. Neighbors still oppose the project.Ann Arbor officials say all indications are that Ferndale-based developer Jeff Helminski is poised to move forward soon with ...
Ann Arbor developer Alex de Parry's proposed Heritage Row Apartments project will begin its second journey through the city's approval process later this month. De Parry has scheduled a citizen participation meeting for the project to be held at 6 p.m. March 25 on the third floor of the Ann ...
In response to Rusty Shackelford’s paean to Alex de Parry (Feb. 6 print edition, Webviews, Comments from our online readers), I suggest that the issue is not whether a developer (demolisher?) should be permitted to destroy a historic neighborhood instantly or gradually, but why a responsible, committed Ann Arbor citizen ...
Ann Arbor developer Alex de Parry will pay only $2,000 in fees to bring his 76-unit Heritage Row Apartments project back through the city's plan review process. Under a rare compromise reached Monday night, City Council members voted 9-2 to give the embattled developer a break on the costs of ...
Developer Alex de Parry is making another run at bringing his Heritage Row Apartments proposal back before the Ann Arbor City Council. If he's lucky, the fourth time's a charm.
Seven century-old houses along South Fifth Avenue potentially face demolition to make way for the controversial City Place project after a vote by the Ann Arbor City Council. Five council members joined forces Monday night to block a motion to reconsider developer Alex de Parry's twice-rejected Heritage Row Apartments proposal.
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