[CPEO-BIF] Traverse City (MI) benefits debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

West Front Street Development
For $5.5M, shoppers would only get 30 spaces in deck

By Brian McGillivary
Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)
March 25, 2007

TRAVERSE CITY - Grand Traverse County's Brownfield Redevelopment 
Authority is prepared to commit $5.5 million to add 30 parking spaces 
for the general public in Traverse City.

Another 186 public parking spaces will be reserved for annual permit 
parking to serve office, restaurant and retail employees of two projects 
proposed by Federated Properties at 145 and 124 W. Front St.

And though the brownfield authority may end up owning a portion of a 
proposed parking deck at 145 W. Front St., it's not their goal to 
provide parking, authority members said.

"There has to be a starter project on the western border of the city or 
that part of town is just going to sit there,” said authority board 
member Peter Zirnhelt. "This is the start and it needs parking.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2007/mar/25deck.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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