The track land became Millennium Park, a 194-acre retail and warehouse industrial park. Ashley is developing 120 acres into warehouse/industrial use. They have built a 715,000-sf distribution/warehouse/packing facility on the site for Technicolor Inc., and plan two more buildings with a combined 950,000 square feet.
About 70 acres are being developed into a retail strip with stores and restaurants, and the rest of the land will house two light industrial buildings, a combined 100,000-sf of space.
Jeff Bryant, economic development director for Livonia, said the park, with its current tenants, pays less to the city than the racetrack, but only because the betting facility gave a cut to the city as part of its payments. The race track paid about $222,000 in taxes in 2000. The track paid about $854,000 to the city in 1998, when it was still open.
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