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Another lawsuit in the Incochee Woods development. This time, the developers are suing the city for use of a two-track (they want to turn it into a road that will connect with Wayne St.) this is the forth lawsuit brought by either the developers, city or township against one or another. Traverse City Record-Eagle

Nothing really, other than they haved moved in a bunch of equipment and the parking lot is where they put it all. So now, when you go to the casino, you have to park in the overflow lots which are a bit of a distance from the casino. Not bad in summer, but when I went out there this past weekend it was a cold walk. They do have shuttles, but I always feel so lazy if I take one.

The last time I drove by there, it looked like they were putting some finishing touches on one last building. If they started building something else there, I don't know.

For the most part it is built out. The few area's left to be build on are the old industrial sites along the Boardman Lake, on the west side of the lake. The east side has been pretty much filled. There are a few development on the west side of the lake, but for the most part, it is still vacant industrial/railroad land. There is a sizeable portion of land also on the north side of the lake that was scheduled to be built on, but if you saw a few posts back, the developer pulled out. Other than that, it pretty much full. Now, when you look at a map of the area around Traverse City, it looks like there is a ton of land that could be built on, but in reality, it is probebly too hilly.

As of right now, there are quite a few different things happening. Here what I can think of off the top of my head. Three story bank building downtown - under construction Ten story mixed-use development w/ parking garage, west side downtown - proposal Three story mixed-use development, west side downtown - proposal Three story mixed-use development, west side downtown - site preperation underway Three story mixed-use development w/parking garage, east side downtown - finished, final touches Widening South Airport Rd from Garfield Ave west to Airport entrence - proposal, planning stages (fast track) There have also been, in the last couple of years, four or five condo/townhouse building build anywhere from downtown to along East Bay. They have all been three to five stories. I know it looks like alot is going on, but this is the first big construction boom, other than suburban big box stores, since the mid to late 90's. (believe it or not, that was 10 years ago.)

I agree, but there is rarely ever more than one or two things happining around here, contruction wise anyway. Edit: How would someone go about setting up sub-forums.

Those are replies. If you go into each topic, you see that there are a ton of views for each one. I thought that too, at first glance, but then I realized that the top forums show replies on the far right, where the bottom forums show views over there. Oh well, we still get a lot of traffic IMO. Also, I totally agree that there should be quality homes built in the city. But a few years back, a family bought a empty parcel of land over by F&M park near downtown and wanted to build a house on it. It wasn't a bad looking house, not a ranch or bi-level starter home, but the city wanted it to be built like the 1890's style victorian homes that are in the area. As far as I know, the neighborhood is NOT some sort of historical district. So needless to say, once again, the developer said thanks, no thanks and moved on out to the outlying townships.

Something like that. I just get tired of the squabbleing between the two governments. Traverse City is basically mad or jeolous about Garfield Twp. being bigger and they feel the need to stick their opinions in on all of their business. The bridge linking Hammond and Hartman Rd's was pretty much stalled because the city wanted to have a ton of traffic and environmental studies done. Why they were allowed to, seeing as how the bridge is nowhere near the city limits, is beyond me. They don't like the stores that go up in the Township and want them to control the sprawl better. That is all fine and all that, but the city is doing nothing to add new homes in the city. Anytime someone wants to build new homes, they have to jump through a million hoops. It just happened again recently where a developer wanted to build a few dozen houses behind the old train depot. Good spot, in town, close to everything but the guy wanted the homes to be for low to moderate income families. He had to do so many things to satisfy the cities zoning requirements that he said, screw it, and pulled out.

I know, I looked at the WJRT webcam and saw there was nothing down there. I have about a foot of it at my house. And of course, the good old Grand Traverse Road Commision has done yet another piss poor job of maintaining the roads. It wouldn't kill them to use a little salt (or a ton of it, I really don't care). But back to your original post, I didn't know that the city still did that for Garfield. Those two entities are kind of like a divorced couple sometimes. The same day I real that they will quit providing the leaf pick up service, I also real that they will partner up on trash collection. They won't provide city services in the Inchoncholee (SP) development, but won't let the township put in an access road. To me personally, I wish the Garfield Township would charter itself as a city and swallow Traverse City. Sometimes the city just does some of the stupidest things.

Oh, they turned it into a condo/townhouse. Well, it looks nice anyway, better than before.

Looks good. It's not done yet though, right? Some of the bricks look like they need a little polishing and it looks like it could use a porch. Awsome work though. Does anyone know how long that took?

Now another developer wants to build a parking deck on the west side of downtown. This time its Snowden who wants to do it. He is the same guy that submitted plans for a deck and building the same time Federated submitted plans to the city, but was shot down because of Michigan State Senator Jason Allen recieved a nice chunk ($20,000) from the CEO of Federated, probebly so he would convince Traverse City officials to pull for his plans. But now Snowden wants to build anyway and get more money from the state in the way of Brownfield redevelopment funds. Traverse City Record-Eagle

That is a lot of stuff going on. Sounds like good news.

Yep, good news. Looking forward to seeing that POS building finally gone. Drove by the bank site downtown yesterday (didn't have my camera with me though) and it looks like its coming along. They look like they will be pouring the foundation soon and then it should be a quick build. These guys have gotten pretty good with putting up steel beam construction.

Hey, I was going to post that. You guys always beat me to it. Oh, well. Anyway, I can't wait for that to happen. Hope the city won't dick around with him and just let him get to it. We will see.

That looks like a lot of work. Do you know how long it should take? To me it looks like at least 2-3 years.

Yeah, I saw it Monday driving down Silver Lake Rd. from Barnes. There is also another crane downtown at the bank building site. Too bad it won't be anything over 100 ft. though.

Nothing yet.

I don't know if I ever mentioned this before, and I don't want to go back because my wireless is acting goofy today, but they are going to build the Hooters on 31 @ 4 mile. They have begun to clear the spot. I guess they came to some kind of agreement about the water and sewer hook up, and while it is still going to be really expensive, they brought it down to an agreeable level. No other news to speak of though. I was walking down State St. downtown and was wishing we had some more height around here.

I miss the fudgers. I wish it were summer again.

Forget that they would look nice, maybe we'd be able to see the damn things. You know what it's like trying to find a street sign with a 30 mph wind blowing snow at you? Impossible, that's what it's like. To answer your previous post, the bank is still nothing more than a hole in the ground, but it is a bigger hole than the last time I saw it.

It's not so bad, but they don't actually start until May and finish in August, unless they make the playoffs and then its September. Minor Leagues, they don't play 162 games like the majors.

Nothing that wasn't stated in the News article. This will be about the third time the paper has been sold though since I moved here, about 15 years.

OK, I stand corrected. Guess I should have looked up those numbers as well. But still, not to shabby for Traverse City. The top 5 are in markets that are much larger than TC's. I think we may have to wait another year though to see if the numbers keep up with last year. You know, maybe it was a novelty or something. I don't think that, I went to a couple of the games, and there seemed to be a nice mix of people there. Young, old, couples and the like.