  Chris_rohn Member Username: Chris_rohn Post Number: 302 Registered: 04-2005 |
  As found on http://www.schostak.com | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 1964 Registered: 02-2007 |
I'm hoping this has nothing to do with the one on 8 Mile and Woodward (I mean in terms of them relocating the whole project). It's not a bad preliminary concept though. | ||
Matt Member Username: Matt Post Number: 1197 Registered: 10-2003 |
What an inspiring design and use of land. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 1436 Registered: 10-2003 |
No, this is Gateway Plaza, not the development on 8 Mile and Woodward. | ||
Chris_rohn Member Username: Chris_rohn Post Number: 303 Registered: 04-2005 |
Looks like they gave up on a mixed-use project for that site. I'm a bit disappointed. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1243 Registered: 04-2006 |
That appears to be an Inifiniti G front and center... don't they know this is Detroit? ETA: Well not really center, more like left. (Message edited by iheartthed on July 31, 2007) | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 929 Registered: 02-2007 |
all those grand plans reduced to a health club???? | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 2339 Registered: 02-2004 |
All these years, all the plans submitted and rejected and we're getting...LA Fitness?????? | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 8 Registered: 07-2007 |
"What an inspiring design and use of land." I hope this is sarcasm. What a complete waste of some of the most valuable real estate in RO or SE Michigan for that matter. | ||
Danindc Member Username: Danindc Post Number: 2919 Registered: 10-2003 |
What an inspiring gateway! It says, "Plenty of free parking here"! Absolutely terrible layout with respect to Woodward and Washington Avenues. You wouldn't think either was a very important street. | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1592 Registered: 11-2003 |
But it's not just an LA Fitness... it's a *ginormous* LA Fitness with an acre of parking. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 2340 Registered: 02-2004 |
Excellent. Will make the traffic clusterfuck all worthwhile. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 930 Registered: 02-2007 |
All L.A. Fitness centers look alike. There is one going up at Maple/Telegraph and another in Troy. Don't these people know we are out of shape and like it that way? | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1593 Registered: 11-2003 |
Which is why I never get off 696 at Woodward to begin with... | ||
Valkyrias Member Username: Valkyrias Post Number: 470 Registered: 02-2005 |
yes, gotta love the clusterfuck over there...now it will soon become an uber clusterfuck. they really could have had some kind of nice park over there, too... | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 575 Registered: 12-2006 |
They are reacting to the reality of the situation. The kind of mixed use development many of us would prefer to see on that site only makes sense in a functioning urban environment, which southeast Oakland County is not. If you want to see the kind of density and mixed use that some of us refer to as "transit oriented development", you have to first have decent transit. Since we don't, we will get here where we get everywhere: a stand-alone single-use facility surrounded by a moat of parking. This is what we have chosen for our region. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1578 Registered: 12-2005 |
Aahhh--the geography (and architecture) of nowhere in particular. They must not have been able to attract: Subway Starbucks Radio Shack Baskin Robins Smoker's outlet UPS store Baja Fresh Wireless toys Jackson-Hewitt tax Kinko's Do they need that many parking spaces with all of the housing nearby? | ||
Thnk2mch Member Username: Thnk2mch Post Number: 992 Registered: 02-2006 |
That site would have made a good transit station. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 1438 Registered: 10-2003 |
Notice the redevelopment plans for Wonderland are also on here. http://www.schostak.com/portfo lio/wonderland_village.html | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1753 Registered: 05-2005 |
hahahahahahhahahahahah! | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1719 Registered: 06-2006 |
nice...that plot of land has been vacant for far too long | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1721 Registered: 06-2006 |
"Notice the redevelopment plans for Wonderland are also on here." 75% of the actual buildings for the Wonderland Village site are already up...I'd say just driving by would give you a better idea what this one will look like than simply looking at a rendering | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 2222 Registered: 10-2003 |
For such a high profile corner, that's a really disappointing and dumb project. Has this design been approved by the city? | ||
Dannaroo Member Username: Dannaroo Post Number: 102 Registered: 05-2006 |
I hate to sound like an echo of everybody else on here, but damn that's a lot of parking! And BVos, there has not yet been a final site plan approved. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 9667 Registered: 10-2003 |
That is a great design ... to poop on. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 2346 Registered: 02-2004 |
They've been promising to build on that site since I moved here in 1994. We'll see. | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 11 Registered: 07-2007 |
"They are reacting to the reality of the situation. The kind of mixed use development many of us would prefer to see on that site only makes sense in a functioning urban environment, which southeast Oakland County is not." Come on - drive up Main Street and see buildings with retail on the first floor and residential and/or office on the second and above. | ||
Rrl Member Username: Rrl Post Number: 870 Registered: 12-2003 |
What a completely uninspired design and utilization of the site. Blech! | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1245 Registered: 04-2006 |
Well... I mean, it is at 696 and Woodward. What else could they put there without being supported by a sea of parking? I agree that it would have been a perfect place for a transit center (maybe a commuter rail station), but I guess first you'd need a transit system, no? Drive your fat butt right up to the door of the | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 576 Registered: 12-2006 |
Novine, all of the buildings you mention on Main Street were built in the very distant past. Royal Oak used to have light rail, you may know. I don't know of any building of that type built in that area in the past thirty years. New developments tend to look, in a region such as ours, like this one. I'm not saying I like it; I don't, I'm just saying developers are realistic. |
