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Architecture master students from University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning program will display their thesis projects at the Liberty Lofts Warehouse, 305. W. Liberty, in Ann Arbor, April 28-May 2, 2010. The thesis’ students reviews and the exhibit are free and open to the U-M community and guests.
Exhibit: April 30 – May 1, 10 AM – 5 PM and May 2, 12 PM – 7 PM
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High stakes downtown Ann Arbor development site to get $50,000 to hire consultant to help evaluate proposals.
Local real estate developer Peter Allen encouraged Ann Arbor leaders to consider a broad vision for the future of the entire area surrounding the so-called Library Lot as they decide what will be built on the downtown site.
Allen addressed the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority’s governing board today before it approved providing $50,000 to the city to hire a consultant to help evaluate proposals for the lot, a 1.2-acre site on South Fifth Avenue.
“To me, the issues that you are going to discuss about hiring this consultant relate to a timeless, 100-year decision about what is it that makes a great, great city,” Allen said, suggesting the site has the potential to be “the place for Ann Arbor that you always want to take your guests – you always want to go to and walk through, that you want to say is an emblem about what is really special about Ann Arbor.”
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Proposals to put a park or town square atop the underground parking structure that is being built at the so-called Library Lot in downtown Ann Arbor have been eliminated from contention by an advisory committee.
City officials also are considering hiring a consultant to evaluate the pros and cons of the remaining four proposals..
Taken out of the running by the committee was an idea for a community commons – or urban park – by a grassroots group of citizens called the Ann Arbor Committee for the Commons.
Also eliminated was a popular proposal by Dahlmann Apartments Ltd. for a town square project with an outdoor ice skating rink and pavilion – a concept that received 46 percent of the vote from 1,483 AnnArbor.com readers who participated in a non-scientific online poll to see which of the six proposals they liked most.
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