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$1.6 Bil Pinnacle Aeropark Project Pared Down

DETROIT-500 acres are dropped from the huge Wayne County mixed-use plan. The county has decided to split parcel among many developers, instead of a select few.

By Robert Carr | Updated on September 13, 2000

DETROIT-Wayne County’s plans for hotels, offices, high-tech facilities, industrial sites and warehouses in the Pinnacle Aeropark project, a large swatch of land just south of the expanding Detroit Metropolitan Airport, have been pared down. The project was announced in early 1999, promising to draw up to $1.6 billion in new investment to Huron Township and Romulus, MI.

“The 1,800 acres have been adjusted to 1,300,” says David Tyler, assistant to the director of economic development for Wayne County. “We’ve decided we don’t need some of the peripheral properties. A lot of the land was the airport’s, anyway, so they will just continue to hold it.”

Tyler says the county will instead sell various parcels to developers. “There still may be a few large projects, but it won’t be all one developer.”

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