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Search for Postal Land Narrows to 3 Locations

DETROIT-More mail due to new developments has swamped a four-county area. The US Postal Service is looking at sites in either Oakland or Macomb counties for a new 880,000-sf processing facility.

By Robert Carr | Updated on May 02, 2001

DETROIT-The US Postal Service continues its search in the suburbs for a location to place a new distribution center, even while the Federal agency ‘s budget for facilities is being cut across the country. The Postal Service is looking at three undisclosed sites somewhere in Oakland or Macomb counties for a new 880,000-sf processing facility. The building would cost $88 million to construct, says Shannon LaBruayere, the Royal Oak District’s communications coordinator.

Postal real estate officials have been searching for almost a decade to find a worthy site. One was found at 23 Mile Road near Van Dyke Avenue in Shelby Township in 1996, on the site of the old General Motors Test Track, but residents fought against the development, claiming traffic concerns. Plans were scrapped in 1998.

Currently, the agency uses a 200,000-sf facility in Troy, but the delivery jobs have outgrown that building, LaBruayere says.

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