Company name

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Library Street Collective

Location of Company

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anthony@lscgallery.com

Name(s) of the developer. This would include the lead developer, architect, contractor and any community engagement leads.

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Anthony Curis, Library Street Collective, Peterson Rich Office (architect), Undecorated (architect)

Is the development company a woman or minority owned business?

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Woman owned

BIPOC

LGBTIA

N/A

What are any past projects that the developer company has completed in Detroit?

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1260 Library Street, the Belt

What are the total costs of the development?

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Have you closed your financing?

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Yes

No

Are you planning on asking for any of the following tax credits or subsidies?

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Neighborhood Enterprise Zone

Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act

Public Act 210

Tax Increment Financing

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CDBG

Detroit Housing Fund for the Future

Strategic Neighborhood Fund

Low Income Housing Tax Credit

New Markets Tax Credit

Other:

If yes to any of the options above, please indicate amount of award.

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What is the location of your development?

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Parkview/McClellan

What neighborhood is this in?

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Proposed number of units

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Please indicate how many stories the finished product will as well as the square footage.

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Roughly 27,000 square feet across multiple buildings

What is the array of bedrooms and their corresponding rents?

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What levels of affordability are going to be instituted, namely, AMI income restrictions and how many units will be at each level?

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What is the plan for parking?

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Mix of off-street parking and street parking

Do you need to rezone the parcel, or obtain a special land use? If so, please describe the current zoning and requested rezoning, as well as what, if any SLU you will ask for.

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An SLU was approved in 2021

What is your estimated date of breaking ground and what is you estimated time of completion?

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Anticipated start of 2/2022 with completion estimated by 6/2023

Please describe your plan for community engagement on this project, including what stakeholders will be consulted, the number of meetings you will have and what mechanisms you will put in place for sharing and disseminating information.

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We have engaged with several community stakeholders including the East Village Association, the Villages CDC, Jefferson East, Inc and various departments at the City of Detroit. Further, residents in the immediate area have been engaged in the process including our neighbors at the River Crest Apartments, Pewabic and other organizations.

How do you intend to partner with the local neighborhood group in order to foster a healthy working relationship? Examples can include frequently coming to neighborhood association meetings as well as financial from time to time.

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We meet regularly with neighborhood and city groups to ensure that our overall plans will be an amenity and asset to the community and its residents.

What environmental issues have you uncovered on the site? If there are any, please describe anticipated remediation plans.

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Are you willing to do a mailing to the houses in a 500 foot radius with information about the development project?

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Yes

No

How will you improve public transit access? This could range from building a shelter at the nearest bus stop with lights, heat, and electric bus arrival signage, to adding public access to your lobby to allow transit users to wait comfortably year-round.

How will you improve access to other affordable transportation methods like walking or biking? Ideas include easy access to front doors to decrease walk times, ensuring exterior outlets are available for those needing to charge power chairs, installing a MoGo station, and including space for a bike room for secure storage and light maintenance.

The overall site will be developed into a network of public trails and pathways that will be fully accessible to the neighborhood. we’ve minimized the buildable footprint and maximized green space and public space. Two of the largest parcels will be developed into public parks.

What is different about your development that helps to make your project more affordable to Detroiters, besides making rooms smaller? Are you installing energy efficient appliances in order to decrease utility burdens? Are you separating parking fees from rent in order to allow residents to save money by not owning a car?

What are you doing to encourage people with disabilities to rent your units? Are all of your units wheelchair accessible? Are all of your common areas wheelchair-accessible? Do you have cognitively accessible signage? How are you going beyond ADA legal minimums in order to increase your development’s accessibility?

The development will be ADA accessible.

What are you doing to contribute to, rather than diminish, greenspace in the neighborhood? How many trees will be planted as a result of your development? Is there a space for tenants to have a community garden? Do you own nearby vacant land that could be converted to a pocket park, community garden, or other greenspace?

The vast majority of the site will be greenspace, public trails and community parks. We will be installing 80 shade trees, 40 flowering trees and nearly 1,500 shrubs.

What is your plan for recycling? Composting?

What is your plan for on-site renewable energy or building-scale energy-efficiency measures?Question about this topic

If you have renderings, please email them to mac@thevillagesofdetroit.com.

Please provide a list of required City approvals for this project, including, but not limited to, zoning, historic, tax credit approvals, etc. Please also include information about the timing of these approvals.

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All approvals have been granted.

Are you interested in doing development in other areas of the Villages?

Yes, we'd like to continue focusing on East Village.