Ann Arbor’s technology entrepreneurs chose office space in the Northern Brewery building on Jones Drive over the years because of its location, its historic loft-like offices and its reputation as a creative hub. But for nearly a year, a portion of the building has been building its own identity as ...
Building Information Modeling or “BIM” is rapidly finding its way into the design and construction of buildings --- and for good reason. BIM is a natural outgrowth of the information society that we have become, due in large measure to the geometric rise of tech advances founded on computers.
Neal Warling of Bluestone Realty Advisors.Ann Arbor’s commercial real estate market heads toward year-end with hopes that pending third-quarter data will show that we're sustaining some increases in activity. That’s the message from Neal Warling of Bluestone Realty Advisors, who presented a snapshot of the local market at a recent ...
What kind of design guidelines should influence development in downtown Ann Arbor? Finding that answer has been years in the making, most of it involving committees and city staff. Now City Council members will hold a public hearing on the revised A2D2 Downtown Design Guidelines tonight at their regular meeting, ...
Systems in Motion - the tech company that announced this morning it would hire over 1,000 people at its new office in the region - will move into 8,000 square feet of office space in Valley Ranch Business Park. Pittsfield Township Supervisor Mandy Grewal disclosed the location this afternoon, following ...
Ann Arbor’s downtown housing boom is just a memory now - thanks in part to the many projects proposed but never built in the last decade. But one proposal is still making its way to the Planning Commission, and its developer says even today’s economic climate would support it. “The ...
The Courtyards, a private dorm on the edge of the University of Michigan's North Campus.Lon Horwedel | Ann Arbor.com  This fall’s opening of the final phase of The Courtyards high-rise near North Campus closes at least seven years of development by two successive companies that saw potential in building ...
The first question many in Ann Arbor have about the University of Michigan’s move to the former Pfizer campus is: Will it just move around U-M’s existing offices or be a true expansion? The answer, U-M officials told me this past week, is unambiguous: Expansion.
With a large portion of commercial U.S. real estate tenant-occupied, many landlords and tenants are looking to “green” their buildings - from increasing energy efficiency to improving indoor air quality. But “greening” a building leased in whole or in part to tenants creates a whole set of new issues to ...
Consensus is a rare byproduct of developers trying to build a big box store in townships surrounding Ann Arbor. Yet that’s what happened when Home Depot assembled purchase agreements on enough property - including an industrial site and about a dozen homes - to plan a 130,000-square-foot store on 26 ...
When Mercedes announced in March that it would open a 60,000-square-foot R&D facility in Ann Arbor, the company accelerated its search for local real estate - and everyone involved believed this region could reasonably accommodate the need. The search, I’m told, started to focus on vacant land in the South ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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