Urban Planning
Gibbs Planning Group
TOWN CENTER MASTER PLAN , Troy, MI
Urban i ntelligence
2017 Troy, a prosperous northern Detroit ‘Edge City’ retained GPG in 2017 to plan a traditional downtown on their 125- acre civic campus. Although the city includes two regional malls, major corporations and over 85,000 residents, it lacks a walkable city center. GPG led a year-long community visioning initiative and planned a walkable urban center based on the 1920’s City Beautiful movement. GPG also completed hotel, residential, retail market research and real estate proforma economic models to estimate the demand, costs and potential investment return on the proposed center. The GPG plan includes 1,000 residential dwellings, 180,000 square feet of retail/commercial, a large hotel, a revitalized city hall, a courthouse, library, a regional civic building, a lake and nearly 60 acres of parks. During a recent public referendum, the plan was supported by over 65% of the city’s voters and is presently being prepared for proposals by real estate developers.
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