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.
Last week, trees were cut down on the City Place property in downtown Ann Arbor. Now, the developers are closer to demolishing seven houses that will make way for the City Place apartments.
The tree-cutting comes as the developer is seeking to have utilities shut off. Both are precursors to demolition, Ann Arbor officials said.
Larry Kestenbaum is asking City Council to save the 7 homes that could soon be demolished for City Place apartments, citing historical significance.
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 ...
That leaves city officials assuming the development team now will push forward with the controversial City Place apartments development - which calls for demolition of houses on the downtown property.
Previous story: Revised Heritage Row proposal wins initial approval from Ann Arbor City Council Jeff Helminski told Ann Arbor officials Monday night his development team is still running the numbers to see if Heritage Row apartments is viable. But he understands, as the city's attorneys explained, there's no turning back ...
The Ann Arbor City Council voted 8-3 tonight in favor of a revised version of the Heritage Row apartments proposal in an effort to stop the demolition of seven century-old homes. Eight votes are required to approve the 85-unit project when it comes back for final approval next Monday, and ...
The Ann Arbor City Council will consider a revised version of the Heritage Row apartments proposal when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday inside city hall. Eight votes are required to approve the planned unit development, which calls for a deviation from the city's existing zoning on 1.23 acres at ...
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 ...
Your editorial (Council can still salvage Heritage Row, Sept. 18, 2011 print edition) misplaces the onus for our community predicament. You blame the council minority who objected to this scheme. That minority had consistently opposed destruction of a historically, culturally and aesthetically valuable downtown neighborhood that happened to be outside ...
By a series of three unanimous votes, the Ann Arbor City Council agreed Monday night to resurrect the twice-defeated Heritage Row apartments proposal. It's the latest maneuver by the council to avoid the demolition of seven houses along Fifth Avenue that stand in the way of a controversial apartment project ...
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 ...
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