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First holiday tree planted at Ann Arbor’s future Center of the City park site
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
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ANN ARBOR, MI It may still be a parking lot for now, but some residents have big hopes for a future downtown park and civic commons on Ann Arbor’s Library Lot.
To ceremonially mark the start of the future Center of the City park and commons, about a dozen residents came together Thursday afternoon, Dec. 10, to plant and decorate a five-foot holiday tree in a red planter box at the Fifth Avenue site.
“Ready? Watch your fingers!” Kevin Leeser called out as local residents Alan Haber and Tom Stevens helped him rock the bulky tree off the back of his pickup truck into one of city’s landscape planters, which they dug out to make room for the Douglas fir. ....

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