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UnaSource Health Gets Parking Variance for 50,000-SF Medical Building

TROY, MI-The City Council here allows the company to build a new facility with 336 fewer parking spaces required under zoning ordinances. The project architect argued 1,142 spaces would cause a hardship.

By Robert Carr | Updated on February 21, 2001

TROY, MI-UnaSource Health of Troy won approval recently for a variance of 336 parking spaces with the construction of a new facility at its current site. The company is building a 50,000-sf, two-story medical building at Crooks Road and South Corporate Drive, adjacent to where the company’s existing first phase building, a three-story, 89,520-sf medical building already stands.

With the new facility, the company needed to have 1,142 parking spaces, one space for every 100 sf of usable floor space. Harley Ellis, the project architect, says the buildings only need 806 spaces, and that the extra construction costs would cause a hardship.

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