[CPEO-BIF] Front Street, Traverse City, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City will negotiate with two developers

By Vanessa McCray
Traverse City Record-Eagle (MI)
December 5, 2006


TRAVERSE CITY - City commissioners want to pursue public parking 
opportunities with two West Front Street developers.

Monday, commissioners authorized city manager Richard Lewis to discuss 
with developer Gerald Snowden an option for land at 305 West Front St. 
There, the city could build its own free-standing deck. Snowden plans a 
mixed-use development for the site and said a 450-space garage could be 
built for $8 million.

...

Commissioner Deni Scrudato, the lone commissioner to oppose the city 
bond proposal, continued to express skepticism about the Federated 
project. She raised questions ranging from the city's liability, 
maintenance requirements, the deck's "life expectancy," and use of the 
$5.49 million in state incentives despite the need for little 
contamination cleanup on the site.

"It still appears to just be a misappropriation of this tax money," 
Scrudato said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/dec/05parking.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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