Ann Arbor's Library Lot project promises to redefine downtown development

What goes up over the Library Lot underground parking garage promises to impact downtown Ann Arbor for decades to come.

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Lost in all of the talk about what to put on top of the Library Lot underground parking garage is the impact it will have on future development in downtown Ann Arbor. In fact, one of the area's major local developers calls it one of the three most important project sites in the city.

Peter Allen, of Lower Town fame, say these three sites will have the biggest impact on development in Ann Arbor over the next 50 years. The other two sites are Fuller Street Station transit center by the University of Michigan Hospital and where the Amtrak station is currently located, on Depot Street by the Broadway Bridge.

"These three sites all impact Ann Arbor and each other in a fundamental way over the next 50 years," says Allen, president of Peter Allen & Associates.

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