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.
