These elevation drawings for The Shoppes at 3600 were submitted to the city of Ann Arbor by the developer. From top to bottom, they show the south, east, north and west views of the building.
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The council approved the site plan for The Shoppes at 3600 with dissent from only Council Member Stephen Kunselman, D-3rd Ward, who said he's concerned the first thing that will be visible from Plymouth Road is the back end of the building.
The council rezoned the property from hotel to fringe commercial to allow construction of a 9,490-square-foot, single-story retail building with one drive-thru and 33 parking spaces.
City of Ann Arbor
Ken Hicks of Ohio-based Diverse Development is dividing off a 1.15-acre parcel from the parking lot and front yard of the Holiday Inn North Campus for the $1 million project.
Hicks is listed as the petitioner, Dan Stone of Ohio-based Van Horn Hoover & Associates Inc. is listed as the petitioner's agent, and Ann Arbor Farms Hotel Corp. is listed as the owner.
The new retail building includes a restaurant with a one-lane drive-thru on the north side. Hypothetical sketches submitted to the city show signage for a Tim Hortons restaurant. The site will be accessed from an existing driveway off Plymouth Road.
An outdoor patio seating area is proposed on the east side of the building. About 51 existing hotel parking spaces are being removed to make way for the project.
Stormwater detention is required and is being provided underground on the southwestern corner of the parking lot. The system is designed to allow for infiltration into the soil.
A 22-inch landmark oak tree is proposed to be removed from the property, with five mitigation trees to be planted around the perimeter of the site in its place.
The adjacent Holiday Inn kicked off a major renovation project in December that is budgeted to cost $4 million.
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