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Suburb Launches Plan for New Cityscape

WIXOM, MI-City Manager Michael Dornan says a mixed-use development on 330 acres could cost between $80 to $125 million to build. A request for proposals for a Downtown Center on a 30-acre parcel goes out this fall.

By Robert Carr | Updated on August 28, 2001

WIXOM, MI-The city known for its friendliness to industrial space users has now launched plans to create a large mixed-use Downtown area to cater to all its new workers. The city is about 25 miles west of Detroit, and is currently the most popular area for new industry to locate; the city is seen as the new drive west for new industrial space along the I-96 corridor.

With its new success and increased taxes, the city has seized on a move to build a residential/retail area, essentially creating a Downtown and its suburbs from scratch. Wixom officials recently agreed to put out a request for proposals for developers to build on a 30-acre parcel that should be the powder keg to new development. The parcel is surrounded by about 300 acres of developable land, much of which the city rezoned for residential and mixed-use properties.

The city’s former Downtown was built at the corner of Wixom and Pontiac Trail roads about 100 years ago. Little remains of the retail area, save a few rundown buildings. In December, the city officially amended the city’s land use plan and an ordinance to create what they call the Village Center, a wide swath of property near the city hall that could include residential subdivisions, retail and commercial uses.

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