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Big Dreams Take to Paper in Plans for Revitalizing Troy Civic Areas
Design includes walkable urban space attractive to employees and residents, plus 300-room hotel.
(Originally published on Dec. 13, 2016) TROY, MI — Troy City Manager Brian Kischnick has been working with a team of planners for more than six months on a master plan to create a bustling, walkable urban areas attractive to both millennials and baby boomers, and bring in more city revenue in the process, Crain's Detroit Business reported.
The city hired Bingham Farms-based Core Partners LLC and Birmingham-based Gibbs Planning Group Inc. to develop the master plan for the 127-acre tract of city-owned land bordered by Interstate 75 to the west, Livernois to the east and Big Beaver Road to the north. Few changes are planned to civic complex bildings housing city government, the police department, library, community center, an aquatic center and the 52-4 District Court.
But new retail spaces, residential spaces, live-work spaces and a 300-room hotel are possible.
