Crosswinds had planned a development that, besides the 9,000 new residences, was to include retail, office and research facilities along with new schools, police and fire stations, a municipal hall, recreation buildings and parks. The area covered 4,900 acres 12 miles south of Ann Arbor and 35 miles southwest of Detroit.
Crosswinds has notified about 30 landowners who had agreed to sell their property for the project that the deals are off, he says.
Milan Township supervisor Sam Mills says he received a letter from Crosswinds dated Nov. 1 in which the company withdrew its application for review of the development.
"It's a large development, and I am sure there are people in the community who are probably relieved, and I am sure other people feel it would have been a good thing for the community," Mills says. Development along the US 23 freeway around the township will continue, even without the Crosswinds project.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s North American research and development arm will expand at the former Ypsilanti State Hospital site in Washtenaw County's York Township, a few miles north of the Crosswinds site. Developers of another York Township project called Riverbend envision a housing, commercial and industrial community with 4,000 homes on 1,700 acres. Riverbend is contingent upon annexation of the land to Milan, which can provide municipal water and sewer service. York and Milan townships do not have water and sewer facilities.
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