Stories indexed with the term ‘Traver Village’

Ann Arbor planning commission meeting (Dec. 20, 2011): With four of the city’s nine planning commissioners absent, the last meeting of the year was brief, with only one action item: site plan approval for changes at Traver Village.

The owner, First Martin Corp., plans to reconfigure retail space that the Blockbuster video store previously occupied, at the southern part of the complex near Plymouth Road, converting it into three smaller retail spaces.

Plans call for adding a new 25-space parking lot to serve that location, between the south side of the building and Plymouth. Elsewhere within the complex, 128 parking spaces will be removed – primarily in the northwest area behind the Kroger grocery. More bike spaces and landscaping are part of the plan as well, which was approved unanimously by commissioners after brief discussion. It will now be forwarded to the city council for consideration.

Communications during the 30-minute meeting included a reminder of a series of public forums on sustainability starting early next year. The first one, on Thursday, Jan. 12, will feature a panel of city staff on the topic of resource management. All forums will be held at the Ann Arbor District Library’s downtown building, 343 S. Fifth Ave., beginning at 7 p.m. It’s part of a broader sustainability initiative that began earlier this year, funded by a Home Depot Foundation grant. [Full Story]

At its Dec. 20, 2011 meeting, the Ann Arbor planning commission recommended approval of a site plan for Traver Village, a retail complex near the intersection of Plymouth and Nixon. The plan calls for building a new 25-space parking lot in front of the retail building at the southwest corner of the site, removing 14,021 square feet of parking and driveway at the northwest corner of the site near Huron Parkway, and adding covered bicycle parking throughout the complex.

The changes, proposed by First Martin Corp., are planned as part of reconfiguring a currently vacant building, where Blockbusters was previously located. The building will be reconfigured into three smaller retail spaces.

This brief was filed from the second-floor city council chambers at city … [Full Story]

A public hearing has been set for the Dec. 20, 2011 Ann Arbor planning commission meeting, to get input on changes to the Traver Village site plan on Plymouth Road.

The proposal calls for building a new 25-space parking lot in front of the retail building at the southwest corner of the site at 2601 Plymouth Road. Other changes include removing 14,021 square feet of parking and driveway at the northwest corner of the site, near Huron Parkway, and restoring lawn area there, and adding covered bicycle parking throughout the center. The proposal includes a request for a landscape ordinance modification to retain crushed brick mulch in landscape islands on the 16.98-acre site.

This brief was filed from the planning commission’s Dec. 6, … [Full Story]