The Commerce Plan

Key Plan Elements

This is the plan that develops the site exclusively for a commerce park, life-style center (for your downtown) and recreational amenities.  

• Organization – A lifestyle center of retail shops along pedestrian-oriented streets is located near 9-Mile Rd, and commerce park uses are located north nearer to Frank Reeder, where the site is relatively flat.
• Marketability – This plan far exceeds market capacity for commerce park uses; but one can see where the plan may be reduced or provide for development opportunity into the future for other uses.
• Walkability – Creates walkable streets where possible, particularly in the southern lifestyle center and the office center spine. Otherwise, the commerce format is not easily compatible with walkability.  A diversity of commerce and industrial type buildings are suggested here.
• Transportation – The street grid is well organized, however due to the lack of housing each job and business will create a significant amount of car traffic at peak hours along 9 mile and Frank Reeder.
• Environment – The plan preserves open space along the edges, but the format requires substantial surface parking which results in excess water run-off.
• Edges – Edges to the north, west, and south remain open with trails. To the east the edge includes a few future street connections near 9-Mile Rd but does not buffer further north where substantial tree stands border the site’s edge.
• Innovation – Flexibility in the block structure is the key innovation, where the plan could adjust to accommodate other uses.