Plans to redevelop Clinton Twp. procuring heart on maintain – Macomb Each day

The long-awaited renovation of Clinton Township’s Parkway Plaza is on maintain once more resulting from points the proprietor is having with a potential tenant.
Doraid Markus Parkway Plaza Companions LLC had requested the township’s Planning Fee to evaluate the procuring heart’s request for rezoning and a Deliberate Unit Growth proposal.

However the heart final week notified the Planning Division it was asking the fee to desk the merchandise indefinitely resulting from some considerations a couple of potential tenant.

“We’re going to must desk this software in the intervening time,” Eric Williams of Stonefield Engineering & Design of Detroit, stated in a letter to the Planning Division. “We’re working with the possible tenant on some changes.”

Williams didn’t state what the changes had been that he was referring to.

Stonefield is representing Doriad Markus, in response to township data. Neither responded Tuesday to cellphone calls and emails requesting remark.

 

The agency was asking for the plaza to be rezoned from B-3 (common enterprise) and I-1 (gentle industrial) to a Deliberate Unit Growth.

Planning Director Bruce Thompson stated the agency has been working with the Planning Division on a mixed-use improvement, creating some outlot buildings for the plaza and dealing to make the middle extra pedestrian pleasant.

“It’s time to drop again and punt, so to talk,” Thompson stated Tuesday. “We’re keen to be versatile with them. They’d some tenants lined up, however every little thing on this post-Covid world appears to have modified.”

A former proprietor had deliberate to redevelop the dilapidated procuring heart on Groesbeck Freeway north of Metropolitan Parkway right into a facility with a brand new health heart, stores and a marijuana dispensary.

However confronted with criticism from educators, non secular leaders and others, the Clinton Township Board of Trustees has twice voted to choose out, or prohibit leisure marijuana institutions in the neighborhood.

In consequence, a petition drive designed to set off a poll proposal was launched that, if authorised, would permit the manufacturing and retail gross sales. In March 2020, voters rejected a plan supporting the opening of marijuana amenities within the township following a contentious marketing campaign.

A type of pushing for the pro-pot passage was developer James George, whose firm owned Parkway Plaza. Had the pot proposal handed, George was keen to take a position hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to revive the 13-acre, 151,000-square-foot plaza.

George has since apparently bought the property.

It’s not clear who now the precise proprietor is. Clinton Township assessing data present a agency referred to as Parkway Mall LLC of Birmingham pays the taxes on the property.

An internet search of Michigan firms carries no file of Doraid Markus LLC.

The one tenant left at Parkway Plaza is a Greenback Tree retailer.