A
Dramatic Reinvention
Ashley Promenade will accompany the existing
beautiful downtown environment of Ann
Arbor..the time is right for a dramatic renovation as
a fresh, modern, walk-able and
year-round environment complete with sustainable “green” affordable work-force
living space, entertainment venues, a variety of world class shopping, produce
market, grocery and pharmacy…
Ashley
Promenade will be anchored by the comfortably modern, accessible Starwood
A-Lofts hotel and conference center..
Put the car
away…Ann Arbor’s new urban residents deserve to have a highly tailored
convenient urban shopping experience - a place to find reasonably priced
produce, fashion, entertainment, prescriptions and services to accompany Ann
Arbors legacy as an extraordinary dining Mecca.
A New
Design
This re-imagined
shopping destination will offer simple yet dramatic, light-filled spaces, an
indoor-outdoor design to take greater advantage of the seasons The result will feel like creative reuse of a
reclaimed season by creating a vibrant new entertainment and shopping
environment.
This reinvention of the currently underutilized Ashley Street corridor - accomplished
through clever architectural changes that re-make the existing mall in exciting
new ways - will blur the boundaries between indoor shopping spaces and new,
welcoming courtyards, open-air dining areas and outdoor gathering spaces.
Inside, new clerestory windows, running the length of the center, will create
an appealing, soaring interior atrium. The oversized glass walls will simply slide away
during the balmy summer months, opening to new outdoor spaces, shaded by
awnings and canopies, and nestled in elegantly landscaped courtyard settings of cafes and smartly
designed, unique retail shops.
Across the property, new outward facing retail spaces and an indoor/outdoor
versatile courtyard space will flow to a new, landscaped courtyard near the
Theatre area. At the center’s west side, more shops and dining will turn to the
outside, with bistro spaces making use of the property’s new landscaping and
ample year round southern exposure sunshine
Introducing
the Promenade
With hotel
conference center patrons spilling out to the existing Main Street Area
restaurants and shops..Ashley Promenade’s design will organically incorporate
several partially glass-covered and heated walkway areas designed to extend seasonal
usage and better accommodate Ann Arbor’s
active, outdoor lifestyle..
The new landscaped
Promenade with large open spaces, will incorporate new walking and biking
paths, outdoor chess tables, and seasonal skating rink, the Promenade pathways
will connect key elements by converting all existing impervious surface parking
lots on the site to carefully planned “serenity” green spaces
The vision is to
thoughtfully add a wealth of outdoor and indoor spaces to retail, dining and
entertainment.
“This will be a
place you will want to be..”
Key Facts & Features Architecture
and Design
A series of clever
architecture changes will deliver a refreshingly simplified and airy
Interior spaces.
Exterior spaces
On the east and west sides of the
property will be a new, landscaped Promenade, a multi-modal pedestrian path
that will link Main Street
with landscaped walkways leading to the Hotel Conference
Center. The Promenade
will serve as the pedestrian boulevard center link component connecting
existing Main Street retail and restaurants with the new A-Lofts hotel
conference center, workforce housing, additional retail, entertainment, and parks
along Ashley and First Streets to the west..
Location: Situated in the center of Ann Arbors
Business and Upscale Restaurant District
25
Miles from West Bloomfield, Detroit
Size
Project plans call
for approximately 525,000 square feet of Mixed Use, Retail (110,000 S/F)
Workforce Housing (110,000 S/F), Starwood
A-Lofts Hotel
& Conference Center
(380,000 S/F)
Developer
General Equity
Development Group
Architect
& Design
Ron Jona &
Associates
Leasing
McKinley Properties
Schedule Local approvals for
the project are expected 4Q 2009 and construction to begin in 1Q 2010.
Plans currently call for completion in fall 2010.
Hospitality: Starwood: aLofts
Brand 360,000 s/f will operate 40,000 s/f Conference Center
Retailers:
Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Century Theaters, Food Emporium Grocery and Pharmacy, Joe's Produce, The Fish Monger Fish Market will complete the merchandise mix. Indoor Outdoor
food court will spill into a landscaped courtyard and new sit-down restaurants
and café’s will create exciting gathering places with social patios bricked courtyards and serenity gardens.
GENERAL EQUITY PROJECT NUMBER TWO:
PROJECT NAME
MEADOWBROOK MEDICAL PROJECT LOCATION 2670-2690 ANN ARBOR SALINE ROAD PROJECT SIZE 22,000 SQUARE FEET OF CLASS "A" MEDICAL OFFICE SPACE PROJECT TYPE STATE OF THE ART OFFICE SPACE PROJECT DESIGN CLEAN MODERN GLASS PROJECT FEATURES SUSTAINABLE LEED "GOLD" CERTIFICATION NEWLY CREATED WATER FEATURE WALKABLE PARK SETTING SELF CONTAINED ON-SITE PARKING EXCEPTIONAL LOCATION 1000 FT FROM I-94 ON RAMP PREMIUM VISIBILITY NAMING RIGHTS AVAILABLE ACROSS FROM NEW WHOLE FOODS
SHARED CORRIDOR RETAILERS: TARGET WHOLE FOODS POTBELLY REI PANERA BREAD OFFICE DEPOT MEIJERS BEST BUY BUSCHES GROCERY ULTIRA BRIARWOOD MALL
DEMOGRAPHICS:
$84,000 AVERAGE INCOME
Age % of Total
Population
0-4 6%
5-17 16%
18-34 34%
35-64 36%
65+ 8%
Bachelor’s Degree: 30%
Graduate Degrees: 39%
diversity
US Census
African American
42,335
White
260,733
Two or more races 8,418
Hispanic or Latino
10,985
Asian 27,885
American Indian
and Alaska Native
880
Native Hawaiian
and other
Pacific Islander
164