TROY Sylvan Glen Lake Park in Troy is due to get some improvements, turning the green space on Rochester Road, just north of Long Lake Road, into a community park with new amenities for Troy-area residents to enjoy.
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TROY Troy Downtown Development Authority board members met virtually with city officials April 21 to discuss improving landscaping at the city’s new diverging diamond interchange, at Big Beaver Road and Interstate 75, after deeming the Michigan Department of Transportation’s landscaping plan for the corridor to be insufficient.
City Manager Mark Miller told the DDA board that a draft request for qualifications for landscape design services to augment plantings MDOT has been planning for the interchange. DDA members would have to approve a DDA plan amendment in the future, which would allow them to use city funding for additional landscape services.
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Plan includes opportunities to expand city recreation, programming
Cracked concrete and other dilapidated damage has caused the Troy Community Center’s north parking lot to be closed off. The City Council has approved redeveloping it into a usable green space for the community.
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TROY The north parking lot of the Troy Community Center, bordering Town Center Drive, will be getting a face-lift soon.
The Troy City Council unanimously approved an $875,000 redevelopment project that promises to transform the parking lot into a new, usable community green space.
The parking lot, which currently sits vacant, dilapidated and closed to the public, has been in need of repair for the last five years, Department of Public Works Director Kurt Bovensiep told the City Council during their meeting Jan. 25. A Civic Center redevelopment project that began in 2015 “fizzled out,” he said, but Bovensiep knew the need and costs t
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