Michigan and Church St. 2022 Annual CBO Update Meeting
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Welcome everybody and I see a few people filtering in. We'll get started in just about two minutes. Good evening. Welcome to this church, Angel update meeting. Thanks for being All right. Good evening, everyone. Thanks again for joining us. And welcome to the annual update meeting for the Michigan and church community benefits agreement. It's great to be back with so many of you. And it's been it's hard to believe it's been over a year really, since we've all been together on these wonderful zoom meetings. So thanks for you know, everyone who's back with us. Those of you who are new welcome, who went through fast and the great to revisit some of these things. My name is Aaron Goodman. I am with the planning and development department and facilitate community benefits ordinance projects on behalf of the playing developer department to save Detroit overtime to do a few introductions for folks who are on the call, but I think the first thing we'll do is a look at the agenda. Like I said, first thing we're going to do, introductions of office are already off to a great start. We're gonna just take a quick real quick review of the community benefits process. We'll take a look at what monitoring enforcement of CBO agreements looks like from the City of Detroit's perspective. And then we're gonna have our friends from the development team let us know what they're doing on the project, how things are progressing, how things are progressing, both as far as construction is concerned, and as in terms of progress on the committee benefits agreement as well. And then we'll have time for the neighborhood advisory council members q&a, as well as general q&a. So before I go into a couple of housekeeping, things, the meeting is being recorded. Captions are available as well. And you know, if you need to chat, one of the hosts that's available, but otherwise we'll we'll save most of the dialogue for the questions themselves. So I just want to recognize, first of all, my colleagues when CD tray and playing department playing department, and others who are here on the call I'll just note that we have often power neighborhoods and 20 more Mills, we have to Nika Griggs, Jacob Jones from creo, who you'll hear from a little bit later, Edwina King and Kevin trontz from planning and development department. I see Vince Keenan as well. And then stuff if you just want to say hi, real quick, I know you will speak later, but just just to introduce yourself and who from your team is here?
Yeah, thanks. Seth Markowitz Hunter pasture. Excited to be back before the quartile community again this evening. We have several members of our team that will be participating tonight in our presentation, along with Jeff Jozwiak, the principal at Chrisman Norka Padbury director of Architecture at Newman Smith and then Mike marks principal and partner kibbles. Webster.
Great, thank you. And then this is a great opportunity to thank introduce our neighborhood advisory council members who are here with us. If we can just go around if you just want to go off mute, introduce yourselves. Real quickly. I think it'd be great for people to see you and hear from you. So we'll just start from the top with we'll just go down the list. So as Walker if you're here
Good evening, I'm a little under the weather so I'm not going to turn on my calendar on my camera, but just glad to see everybody here tonight. Looking forward to the updates. So thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Hampton. Yeah, I saw that you're down here a minute ago. Okay, well, I see you waving. We can't hear you though. Yeah, you're on mute. Now. You're asking you but we can't hear you. So there might be a microphone issue going on. But we see you Mr. Hampton, so great to see you. Thank you. Mr. Thomas.
Good evening, everybody. Welcome back.
Thank you. And I want to know, Brandon Lockhart, who you see on there. He actually did resign from the neighborhood Advisory Council recently, due to actually take an appointment at the city of the train. So he's no longer eligible to serve. So we will speak to that in just a moment. But Hispanic,
thank you for having this meeting. And I hope it'll be very productive. And have a great day.
Thank you. Mr. Esparza.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome.
Thank you. Mr. Moore. You're on mute but we saw your way. Miss Shannon, I believe is not going to be joining us this evening.
Mr. Roberts.
Yeah, thank you. Hi, everybody. I'm also a little under the weather between a COVID vaccine update and a flu shot at the same time probably wasn't the best idea.
Yes. So that's a double whammy there for sure. And then is Mr. pines? Is he on the call? So just real briefly, I just will know. Kevin pines. He's served as the alternate through the process with Brandon lock cartes resignation, Kevin pines would now be filling a full seat on the neck. So just to let everyone know that as well. So I'm going to move on and just go over real briefly. The community benefits ordinance engagement process for those of you who went through it you probably remember it well, or, you know, it's been 18 months or so. So just a quick refresher. You know, the main heart of the process was to engage the community, with the developer in these projects that are the qualifying and community benefits agreement and largely involves forming a neighborhood Advisory Council for you all are just reintroduced to that are nine residents from the area and they are elected by the community or appointed by city council or by the planning and development department. You know, once they're appointed the NAC with the P be facilitated NEC meeting with planning the developer and the community in order to identify impacts of the proposed project. The neighbor Advisory Council then develops suggestions to those identify impacts and discussion and negotiation with the developer generates an agreement in response to the next input. In this particular process for the Michigan church
project,
you know, this is a overview of you know, we had six meetings hosted by the city the neighborhood Advisory Council was also very active in hopes that five of their own community meetings and additional six meetings so 11 meetings to the NEC members, which is really quite remarkable. We had about 175 folks who attended via zoom this was took place between March and May of 2021. So all the me the process took place completely over zoom. And these are some of the main areas that we there have been points of discussion concerns that were raised by the community to mitigate construction impacts. Concerns about the project design, sustainability, preservation of historic structures, parking traffic and walkability, affordable housing and support for the community investment in the community. Once the agreement was come to in, through dialogue between the developer and community, we have what we call community benefits provision that is put together and within that benefits provision includes the enforcement mechanisms for the community benefits provision, the list of benefits developer agreed to provide the requirement for the developer to submit compliance reports and community engagement requirements. And this agreement remains in effect throughout the duration of the project. Once the CBO meetings were completed, there's a few other pieces of the process that take place you know, most immediately the neighbor Advisory Council in this case unanimously signed a letter of support for that community benefits package planning and development, create a community benefits report shared at the NEC and we put it on our website. And that's included for development package that's near the city council. That community benefits report and provision that is agreed to between the developer and the city. City council then approve those incentives requests with the community benefits provision. And then we enter into the monitoring enforcement period with our annual meetings and compliance reports. And just reminder, all documents reports are posted on the safety trade website. And that's at WWW dot Detroit mi.com forward slash Michigan dash church. And then we also host PD hosts public annual update meetings with the NEC and developer for at least two years. And I'll drop that website in the chat in a minute. And just so you know, tonight's presentation is already posted on that website as well. And the recording for this presentation won't be there, too, once we wrap up and we have the recording. So with that, I'm going to hand it over to Jacob Jones, who's here representing the civil rights, inclusion and opportunity department of the city of Detroit. So thank you and go ahead, take. Cool,
thanks, Aaron. As Erin said, my name is Jacob Jones. I am the incentives compliance manager with Creo where I work with our Associate Director of compliance to Nika Griggs, who's also on the call, where we monitor all things executive or excuse me, community benefits ordinance. Go to the next slide please. So, we monitor tier one projects under the community benefits ordinance. So what is a tier one project that is a project was $75 million or more in construction costs plus $1 million or more in city tax abatements In the city of Detroit or $1 million or more in value of city property sale or transfer for below market value and without open bidding. So on the next slide
cool, so little breakdown here of our monitoring and our monitoring process. So we generate compliance reports for every single community benefits agreement twice a year. We do this we monitor these projects throughout the years but we put out these reports at two separate times. Here's a little breakdown of the process of how we do that. So we send the developer, essentially a targeted questionnaire where they provide us with information on each and every agreement in that community benefits ordinance agreement. Once we get that information back from the developer we review it. We dig deeper, we do project walkthroughs we look we look for documentation and proofs and any additional clarification needed. We also meet with the various city departments to not only verify information from the developer, but also to check on those commitments that the city has agreed to, to make sure that we have all the necessary information before those reports go out. Go to the next slide Aaron. So wanted to give you also a little bit of information about the complaint or inquiry process. We've really tried to formalize the internal process for dealing with these complaints that are submitted to the city. The city staff together planning Creo the Department of neighborhoods we review them and we communicate and coordinate and coordinate responses and then also per the CBO investigations of CBO agreement violations by the enforcement committee must be formally requested by the NAC and in the following slides we'll go into this a little bit deeper. So stage one of this a citizen submitted complaint so first step is a resident submits inquiry or complaint regarding a CBO project via the online Smartsheet form. That link is on the presentation that you see here, but we'll get that to you and a link form as well as sort of a clickable form that submit a complaint is shared with the neighborhood Advisory Council Council and reviewed by city staff and inquiries are made with relevant departments to prepare responses. Those responses are sent to to the resident. With copy to the neck, the neck is advised on the process to request a formal investigation if necessary, by the Enforcement Committee.
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stage two is an actual formal investigation request by the by the neck so the next submits request for complaint to be formally investigated by the Enforcement Committee. The Enforcement Committee is convened by the corporation Council. This includes planning a representative Creo LPD, as well as a NAC representative. And within 21 days of receipt of the formal request the Enforcement Committee completes the investigation and submits the findings to the NAC as well as the original complainant. Now, just couple notes there on the bottom. The findings shall include whether the developer is in compliance with the community benefits provision, and also how the community benefits provision will be enforced or how violations will be mitigated. Next slide, please. There.
Now stage three,
say this comes out and the neighborhood Advisory Council disagrees with the Enforcement Committee findings. Essentially, if there is a disagreement with the findings, the law determines that we're not the EC is not diligently pursuing the enforcement, the NAC may send notice to the Enforcement Committee which will have 14 days to respond if the NAC is not satisfied with the subsequent subsequent response from the Enforcement Committee, the Nag may petition the city clerk to request a city council hearing with both the neck and the Enforcement Committee and city council may elect to hold a hearing to determine if the Enforcement Committee has made reasonable efforts to ensure developer compliance and based on its findings City Council can require follow up with a follow up and action from the Enforcement Committee and or the developer.
Next slide there.
Now I know that was a lot of information. Essentially just want to give you a breakdown of how every part of the process works from creating the reports to also handling complaints. Our next round of reports are in development right now and it should be made available to the public here in the next couple of weeks with first with the neighborhood Advisory Council and city council but also to the general public in the meantime, if you do have any questions or ever want to get in touch with Creo and any issues related to this, please don't hesitate to reach out to Nika Griggs, our director of compliance or me, Jacob Jones, the incentives compliance manager and of course we have our our website as well if you ever lose these emails or phone numbers we are we are easy to find on there. Yeah, back to you were
great, thank you so much, Jacob, and really a great breakdown of the process and I will say that we've made a lot of process progress to make this as streamlined and as easy to use for residents as possible and also efficient. So without any further ado, on that piece, I'm going to next give it over to Seth and his team to give it I think probably the most exciting information that you all are here about to hear about the actual progress on the project we've been. You all spent so much time engaging with and
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it thank you Erin, before I jump in and get going I want to make sure that we can do the Jeff and Pat and Mike marks and Terence Thomas in our team are have access to speak Can you confirm that they have you?
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Well, thanks, everyone. I appreciate it. And again, my name is Seth Markowitz. For those of you that I don't know, I'm a partner at Hunter pasture and have led our approval and engagement efforts for both the Godfrey hotel project as well as the Michigan and Church Street projects. As you may be aware, we have branded our Michigan Church Street project perennial chord town, so I may use those project names interchangeably. Throughout our discussion. As Erin alluded to earlier, our goal tonight is really to update you on the progress of our cork town developments along with the commitments that were memorialized in the tier one CBl agreement. If we could go to the next slide, please. So as a reminder, the Michigan Church Street project is a joint venture in terms of the sponsorship consisting of Oxford Capital Group, Hunter pasture and the Forbes company. And we've been really fortunate to work within a plus caliber consultant team. So our design and architecture has been led by elkus man Freddie Newman Smith and the Kramer Design Group. Our Civil Environmental structural and MEP consultants include ima Gimbels, Webster, resurgent, and SMB. And our general contractor for the project is also a joint venture and the combined entity is Chris Menorcan. And as I alluded to earlier, joining the presentation this evenings Pat Barry of Newman Smith, Jeff Jozwiak, of Chris Menorcan, and Mike marks Gimbels Webster. Next slide, please. Just for orientation purposes, we've included this aerial to show the relationships of the various components of our development. So you can see Godfrey highlighted in red at eighth and Michigan, the Michigan a Church Street project consisting of the apartment building and blue, the townhomes highlighted in teal, along with the parking garage highlighted in light green. And then lastly, the the conversion of the storage building is highlighted in dark green, and I'm going to provide an update to the community on the progress of the storage building planning efforts a little bit later in our present rotation. Next slide please. Just as a reminder, this slide illustrates the CBO impact area which you can see outlined in black you can also see our projects location relative to the impact area as highlighted in red. Next slide please. As you know the Michigan a tertiary project consists of three primary components. So first at the top of the screen, the seven storey 188 unit apartment building at 1611, Michigan. Avenue and apartment buildings also program with 9889 square feet of neighborhood focus retail and 22 internal parking spaces that are primarily allocated for the retail use. The apartment building is on track to open in q1 2024 second in the middle of the screen along Church Street and 10th We're developing seven three story townhomes. There's a total of 17 parking spaces. There's 10 service spaces behind the building and and seven attached garage spaces. The townhomes are scheduled to deliver in the third quarter of 2023. And then third at the bottom site at church in trouble consists of a three storey 219 space parking garage, and the garage is also programmed with approximately 3000 square feet of retail on the ground level. And I'll get into more detail on the garage a little bit later. as well. Our goal is to complete construction on the parking deck early in 2023 and which time it'll be temporarily utilize for additional contractor parking until the opening of the Godfrey and the perennial apartment building. Next slide please. So we've created a website for our project of a web address is noted on the screen www. Michigan and Church Street project.com. On the website you're going to find project renderings contact information, detailed project information, including environmental reports, road closure information and then construction related updates. Next slide please. So at this point in the presentation, I'm gonna hand the reins over to Jeff. As I said just a principal in Oregon. He's going to provide a construction update on the Godfrey the apartment building the townhomes and the parking deck and just also going to speak on our efforts to best mitigate project construction along with an update on the current alley project south and west of the future apartment building. So Jeff, I'll hand it over to you
first of all, let me just say that my 30 years 35 years of construction, I think this is the best, you know, community engagement and best community interaction that I've seen on a project of this scale. And we appreciate that tremendously. We've gotten great feedback, you know, over the last several months from neighbors about you know, things that are happening in the neighborhood, you know, whether it's things that we made a mistake parking in the wrong area, or whether it's, you know, keeping an eye on on people entering the job site and things like that. It's been a great collaboration and we've been able to react to things very quickly as a result. So I just want to say I appreciate that tremendously, the whole team I know obviously does appreciate that too. And these forums are a big help and a big way for us to get to know each other. So, first of all, the Godfrey hotel is the first project that we started obviously and is much further along. It's a concrete structure which is complete we're working on the exterior envelope the exterior facade we have the brick the brick is finished on Michigan and Eighth Street or working on Leverett. The areas that you see in green in this image will ultimately be covered by a dark blue metal panel and very, sort of very attractive and in keeping with the the neighborhood and those panels will start going on the building. By early next week. The inside the horseshoe we have a gray metal panel system that is primarily complete to what were the last elevation there. As you can see these activities on on the exterior facade require us to continue to use the sidewalk continues to curb lane because there's equipment deliveries, you know materials lifts etc that have to consume that space to get these these areas built. We're happy to report that the all the windows are in on the nanowalls in in all we have to do now is the first fun stuff. First of all are storefront which we typically hold off on until a little bit later just because of the vandalism and other things that are involved there. The interior of the projects of this project is also moving along there are seven or six and a half or sixth floor five minute floors with guest rooms the second through the seventh floor portion of seventh floor. Those are progressing. The seventh floor amenity space bar restaurant which will have full full height windows that open to the environment is underway. And construction on the first floor lobby and ballroom and restaurant kitchen are underway as well. So everything is progressing and our plan is to to finish by summer of 2023.
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This is the current progress at perennial pork out apartments. You know for those of you that are budding engineers or enjoy construction, you haven't yet had the benefit of seeing multiple different structures go up in your neighborhood here. Each one of these products has a different structure. This one is also concrete on the first floor and the course wood stairs and the elevators but then it's a structural a prefabricated structural metal stud wall system that will go up five floors above this podium and you're you're seeing the first floor go in which was combination of steel and structural Milstead and as we go up further, it'll be kind of a similar process that you'll see this climb you know one floor to the next 111 thing to note is that the site work on these projects on the Godfrey will happen in the spring. It's a little bit too early in the project to get the sidewalks in the NBA Street patching in the trees in so that'll be happening in the spring.
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the the parking garage, yet another structure. This is a precast concrete structure. So the members are concrete but they're pre formed and pre manufacture. Custom designed and formed and manufactured in a plant and then brought out in pieces and assembled and those of you in the neighborhood that have had a chance to go by have recently seen that go up and it really went up fast and things are progressing extremely well in the parking garage to see the curtain wall is in. We are working on railings we're working on electrical and lighting on the inside. We're doing some site work on the outside bringing the electrical service and the elevator will be starting soon as well that the projected completion of that as is around the end of the year but we will have to wait a little while until we get permanent power from Detroit Edison. There's a bit of a holdup there on there and just bring the power to the neighborhood
next slide. And then
the townhomes are progressing seven townhomes and we're in the in the process of completing the envelope on those yet another structure those are wood frame structure, very conventional townhome wood frame structures and so they will have a combination of brick and metal pass facade as well. And work is also progressing on the inside the interior framing and mechanical electrical plumbing roof and
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As we've as everyone I'm sure he's aware and we're limiting construction to 7am to 7pm. Monday through Friday. Usually trades are off the site by for occasion. We'll have some stragglers until five people are working a little bit later. And then we've very limited work on Saturdays that doesn't start until after eight we did we did do some special dust mitigation procedures during complex operation and then we're trying to streets as best we can during the remainder of the work. We do have the full construction site fully enclosed and fenced and we are using security cameras fairly effectively at identifying you know any intruders we have had some theft so far fairly minor, no vandalism which sometimes can be the most costly intrusion and you know we are diligently keeping an eye on who and what and how and bear stay in very close contact with the police in an area to make sure we're identifying and sharing information. Crates people and team have been patronizing the local businesses and hopefully they're seeing that impact as well
as local businesses and I'll turn it over to Mike here,
right so yeah, Jeff, if you could just first of all, this is this is a flyer that we hand out to our construction trades as part of their onboarding process and then regularly throughout our build cycle provided to us from the quartile Business Association. I think the next slide, Jeff has an update on the alley condition and the hours sorry the truck traffic routes, sorry, and then we have an ally improvement discussion as well.
Right, right.
So
pretty agreement in the diagram here. We're limiting our truck traffic to Trumbull or Rosa Parks. And, of course Michigan Avenue and you know occasionally we will we'll have a new delivery or new subcontract or something first time on the job and then a mistake we made and we do appreciate very much the fact that someone is telling us that because I want to make sure that we're getting that message out and being very consistent and we do have weekly meetings with our subcontractors were the top of the agenda are these community things, the parking, parking safety truck traffic, and, you know, so that some of the other things that we've talked about here are top of mind on those agendas every week. And then we as Seth said, we have an onboarding process that includes all of this information, and we don't just send it to them or hand it, hand it out to them. Everyone new that comes to the job goes through an onboarding process that covers these things so that they know and we're talking to them face to face about what they can and can't do as it relates to the neighborhood.
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the that we currently have the the alley closure around the parking garage and then at the premium apartments and we're working diligently to get get those back in operational. What we had covered when we started to do our underground work in the alley was that a D ws manhole had crumbled and it had been compromised and so we brought to their attention. They did some reengineering. They're coming out with a new structure and going to repair that while the alley is open while we're doing our work. And that work is this is slated to begin next week. And we believe it'll take until approximately the end of October. And when they're done we'll be able to then proceed further with our site work under those alleys and hopefully, by Thanksgiving, get those paved and operational again.
That's great. I guess just a little shout out to DWSD for really stepping up and being proactive in helping us identify this issue and resolve it. So and then, you know, just real quick we're going to talk a little bit more about the public infrastructure and next slide but this shows sort of the current condition of the public alley in red that's closed with that fence. And again, it's the intent of the project here shortly to improve this red public alley. But then the alley does extend all the way to 10th Street as a private alley, but there's an agreement to allow that to be used for the public provide more contiguous access through the alley to support the project in the adjacent residents.
Jonathan Mike, thank you. I know Mike's gonna get to know a little more detail on site infrastructure alley improvements. A little bit here. So we'll jump back into the alley discussion shortly. But I want to restart by saying that we understand that parking is a critical and important issue to the community. So I want to walk those on the call through the efforts that we've made to mitigate the impact of construction traffic and parking in the neighborhood. You just heard Jeff outline our construction traffic traffic routing plan. So now I want to discuss the contractor parking issue. So on the screen is an area of courtown and the orange. highlighted areas represent land we own or currently have under contract. And then the green represents parcels we do not own but have leased specifically for contracts or parking. So let's walk through those. Those include 90 spaces at 2145 Brooklyn. 45 spaces adjacent to St. Peter's Church 30 spaces along Trumbull Avenue just south of Church Street, and then we have 15 spaces on our parcel at Leverett in Trumbull as the remainder of that parcel is being used as you can see for our trailers and our construction staging, so in total, we have 180 spaces controlled strictly for contractor parking. And for context on a daily basis. We have approximately 145 to 160 construction related workers on the site each day. Aaron if we could go to the next slide. As you've likely seen, significant signage has been placed throughout the neighborhood to properly notify anyone traveling in and around these areas and neighborhoods are off limits. You can see a sample the sign along with the locations of the sign noted on the screen here. So as Jeff alluded to, as each subcontractor and its employees are on boarded to the construction project, they go through a very specific project safety, security and logistics introduction, and it's very important as part of that meeting each individual is provided a map of the designated parking areas that I just showed, along with the permitted truck traffic route map that was also shown. You know, I was taught a long time ago by someone really smart and it's not what you say, but it's what you reinforce. So our team constantly reinforces the issues of contract or parking and truck traffic along with safety. We discussed these issues amongst others at our pre bid meetings. We document those commitments in our contracts. We discuss them again at pre start meetings, as discussed at orientation. And then as Jeff alluded to, it's discussed in the weekly subcontractor meetings. It's also discussed at the weekly site safety meetings. And we recognize we have not been perfect on this issue. Specifically along Church Street between 10th and 11th. However, we're making every effort and hopefully that's come across tonight to mitigate any potential impact of our construction traffic and parking on adjacent neighborhoods. It's also important to know so may be aware earlier this summer, we took additional measures we had the tent and Church Street area monitor daily by our construction staff. We've also provided concern residents recently along 10th with orange cones to use on the street to prevent any parking in front of their homes. Again, we're doing everything in our power within reason and making every effort to mitigate the issue. Next slide, please.
So shifting gears, this is simply a plan view of our first level of our parking garage. And one of the commitments in a tier one was that primary ingress and egress along Trumbull and then secondary ingress and egress along Church Street and to make that as far east as possible. And you can see the primary ingress egress on Trumbull that's outlined in red, and then a secondary ingress and egress along Church Street, outlined in blue and then immediately adjacent to the ingress egress on the corner of Church. And Trumbull is the retail space that's located within our garage. As I mentioned earlier, the garage is going to have capacity for 219 parking spaces. It's going to be utilized for the apartment building residence and the Godfrey of course, zoning ordinances dictates the number of on and off site parking that's required for our various uses, whether it's hotel, residential or retail, and we've received approval from BC department that our parking counts are compliant with ordinance also as noted, and as I mentioned during the CBO process, after six months of opening, we're going to evaluate the parking usage in the garage and if there is additional capacity, we will consider opening the garage to the public. Pat Barry Newman is going to discuss our approach to sustainability momentarily, but I did want to mention, as we're talking about the parking deck, the deck is going to include 40 electric vehicle parking spaces with chargers, but equally important we've sized the electrical equipment to double the amount of chargers at any point in the future and we think that's really important. Before I turn the presentation to Pat, I'm gonna let Mike marks jump in. He's going to discuss several relevant and planned infrastructure improvements that are also noted in our tier one agreement and we're going to pick back up that the alley discussion as well. So next slide, please Aaron and we'll turn it over, Mike.
Thanks, Seth. Yeah,
so as part of the agreement and also just sort of the core principle of the project. We understood the importance to not only improve the private property in the buildings, but you know, improve the adjacent public rights of way. So as part of the project, you know, we're we're improving basically every part of the site adjacent to the public right away as shown here in these colored diagrams. You know, maybe starting with the parking garage site, you can see new new curb and sidewalk along Trumbull. That's a 19 foot wide sidewalk at the widest turns the corner and we kind of adjusted the curb line on the south side of church that allowed for us to have a nice eight foot kind of really comfortable sidewalk along with an street trees and vegetation between the walkway and the curb. One thing to note there is the fifth requested 15 minute on street kind of temporary parking to support the retail and we're working with municipal parking, to kind of memorialize that and kind of get that permitted, as we're moving forward with this site work. Heading west, you know, toward the perennial Corktown apartments in the in the townhouses. You can see new sidewalk in front of the townhouses on church. That's a more residential neighborhood kind of feel. So we meet the six foot wide walk that's like that adjacent. Then up. And, sorry, 10th street, you know, we have again, street trees along the townhouses, and then a nice ample eight foot walk that takes the public in residence north to Michigan Avenue. And then lastly, along Michigan Avenue. We're we're repairing and replacing back the streetscape elements that that were approved on Michigan Avenue A number of years ago including brick pavers in the in the street trees and standard concrete and that that sidewalk is 15 feet wide at the at the narrowest sort of tapers on the project. And then lastly, you know the public alley that I think is we discussed earlier, which is the public Alley is the red portion of the URL. And then the the orange kind of yellow shows the private section of the of the alley that again will be improved and will be kind of built contiguously with the public alley and will serve in function of public for access in a similar manual manner. As the public alley. And then I guess just one last little point is the stormwater detention system so you can see kind of identified here, kind of the shading at the alley to the north, and then the the yellow box in the garage and again, per the ordinance but also you know, to the benefit of the TWC system. Both these projects are managing the stormwater per the ordinance that will then make it so that these areas that previously flowed and attenuated to the combined sewer now are stored and attenuated to the 10 year that will allow more capacity and hopefully alleviate any kind of future localized flooding that could occur within these, the sewers. So it's a quick overview of the status of where we are with the public infrastructure and the stormwater management.
Yeah, thanks, Mike. Learning go to the next slide. I think, you know, as we outlined in great detail during our engagement with the community during the CTO and the requisite approval process, one of the core objectives of our architecture team and you heard Andy west from Oak Usman Friday describe this in great detail last year, was to create an overall site plan and really an architectural design that was primarily focused on the enhancement of the ground level pedestrian experience. And we did that through active building frontages and sidewalk improvements and you're starting hopefully, to see those design goals come to fruition, which is really exciting about the construction of our buildings, as it relates to walkability and sidewalk and infrastructure improvements. Obviously, you just heard from Mike described many of those improvements in great detail. But another core focus of our design approach was our focus on sustainability. And so I want to hand off the presentation to Pat Barry from Newman Smith just to walk through some of the focus of our sustainability objectives, as well as those that are outlined in the tier one agreement. So Pat, I'll turn I'll turn it over to you.
Thank you, Seth. So knowing sustainability is important to the community. We wanted to reaffirm that it's also important to the ownership and project team. Not only does it benefit ownership and the occupants of the building, it also benefits the surrounding community. sustainable buildings tend to have a higher occupancy rate they reduce the impact on the local communities, and they provide improved health and comfort to the occupants. So just to touch on a few of the items the team has been focused on. We've taken efforts to limit the amount of light leaving the site and entering the neighborhood and neighboring properties. We've done this by using cut off fixtures, limiting the heights of exterior fixtures and using various lighting controls on the project. Using sustainable strategies, we are estimating a 12 to 16% more efficient building, then similar buildings built using the same energy code. We're also estimating approximately 9% more efficient lighting on the projects. And that's done with lighting fixture selection and kind of analyzing how everything's laid out and installed. We're also planning for and we'll be installing ENERGY STAR certified appliances that again helps with the efficiency of the building. The team is currently looking into options for recycling programs. That was one of the requirements we had talked about early on and making sure that the residents have opportunities for recycling. We've also created spaces within the building with appropriate sizes to allow for many of the programs that could address this. As Seth mentioned earlier, we do have electric field charging stations in the parking deck. We've also accounted to future where we can add units in as needed. So we're covered with that we're also added some parking or some charging stations within the apartment parking space also. And then the team is practicing sustainable design. We're using lead and the well programs and standards to help us aid in establishing the baselines and goals for the project and we continue to monitor and move forward with those programs. That's kind of a high level stuff. I don't know if there's anything you want to
address. I think that's a great overview and I think if there's additional questions on the design or any more technical questions, you're happy to answer them and we can discuss them during the q&a.
Yes, thank you. Yeah.
Next slide. Please. Aaron.
Want to turn our
attention to workforce development projects bound by the city's executive order 2016 dash one with respect to qualified Detroit based labor. We as a company have applauded and supported the city's efforts to increase City resident participation in the trade base. Since making our first investment in Detroit. Our percentage of Detroit based labor on this project is currently 47.9%. And that information is posted on the Korea website. And while we make every effort to meet the 51% threshold, we're pleased we're not satisfied that our percentage exceeds the aggregate average of projects, similar scale and size. I also want to address another important issue and that's union participation in our project. So I have been consistent clear in every community and city related meeting in which I've participated in that it's always been our expectation that 70 to 80% of our contractor base would be union. And I can report today that of our total investment. 80% of the contracts have been awarded to Union based contractors. Next, we've committed to work with Troy to work as our priority staffing partner for pro unemployment. Within the project. We've met and had preliminary discussions with Detroit at work, or more specifically related to hotel employment for Godfrey and our goal is to open the hotel next summer. So we're starting that process of putting together an engagement and a hiring plan with Detroit at work and our collective goal is to have that plan in place early in 2023. And as part of that plan, all our job openings will be posted on the Detroit at Work website and we'll make sure to share that strategy and that implementation of that plan with an X so that that can be spread to the local community groups. Next slide please. This this slide here on the screen relates to our commitment to reserve 10% of the total units within the apartment building and 60% of area median income as defined by Wayne County. As we discussed with the NAC, the city council and the community during the CBO process, the 60% Ami units will be spread throughout the building and there'll be spread throughout our unit mix. Our expectation is that we commence the leasing process likely the latter part of next year, at which time the property management company will mark it and verify income eligibility. Next slide please. Our total retail footprint for Michigan and church is 12,811 square feet. We've now begun that process of actively marketing the retail spaces in the garage and the apartment building and interestingly enough, we had a Detroit based retailer contact us recently and we now have an executed letter of intent on the smaller approximately 3000 square foot space and Michigan intent in the apartment building we hope that loi turns into a mutually executed lease and we'll share more information once a lease is executed. Also, we've had preliminary discussions with Motor City match, both with respect to identifying local tenants and we've also had discussions related to their potential grant support with future project tenants. Next Next slide please.
Clearly one of the most critical issues that was discussed during our historic review and the CBO review process was related to preserving the downtown storage building. In a moment here I'm going to share the renderings for conversion that building from storage to residential. We've had multiple engagements with the community regarding this project. We have a meeting next month with a historic society which we look forward to and as you may be aware, we've had we've been before the historic district commission several times this year to share the project and those are public meetings open to public comment. Some of you on this call had attended and participated and we appreciated that during the September 14 hdc. Meeting we did receive a unanimous vote in support for the project to be granted a certificate of appropriateness. The building itself has a very unique and interesting history that some may be aware of and outline it here on the screen. And we utilize that history to help inform the naming convention for the project. And as such, we decided to name the building the red arrow lofts for its time as the red arrow bottling plant from the 1920s to the 1970s. We're also going to commemorate as used as the John Whitaker mill that dates back to 1894 by installing a commemorative plaque and once determined we'll make sure to share the plaques text and design and location with the courtown historic Historic Society for their input as well. Next slide please. Just for reference, obviously, everyone on this call is aware this is a photo of the current condition. Next slide. This is a rendering of the future condition. So from an architectural perspective, by reopening the currently infill former openings and installing new windows we're helping to restore the exterior appearance of the building to its appearance during its red arrow past. We're also exploring ways to safely remove the paint from the exterior which will further revive the building's historic appearance. Some of you may have seen that we've been doing some testing on the building to see how we can help remove that existing paint. Other elements, such as painted signage on the facade illuminated by exterior lighting is also inspired by some of the historic images of the building that we've seen many of them and show advertisements for Red Arrow painted on that front facade are really interesting. If you have time to look online, just in the history there. In terms of the programming for the building. The red arrow loft is approximately 32,000 square feet upon completion of 22 apartments of eight dedicated parking spaces within the building and then any additional parking needs can be met on our adjacent private parking garage. As I mentioned, we've received approval from the historic district commission and our goal is to complete the approval process by early 2023. And then our expectation will be to commence construction q2 2023 and hopefully deliver the building in the latter part of 2024. Separately, many of you on this call attended our community update meeting earlier this summer. During that meeting, you heard us introduced the Formosa apartment project, which was proposed for the parcel we own and Leverett in Trumbull on the southeast corner behind St. piers and Godfrey. I do want to let the community know that given the current macro economic conditions along with escalated current construction costs, we are in the process of reevaluating that design and the programming of that project. And once we have a better sense of direction, we'll make sure to update the community and solicit your input as we've done throughout the life. The other components of our courtown investment. Next slide please.
You heard Jeff provide an update on the Godfrey construction progress earlier this evening. We're obviously excited by that pace of construction and the anticipated opening in mid 2023. It's important to note though, that the Godfrey was not part of the tier one agreement. Godfrey had its own tier two agreement in the primary commitment and the tier two related to our efforts to mitigate parking impacts from the Godfrey by either building a parking deck or providing sufficient offsite parking and the necessary improvements. As we've discussed, that parking deck is going to open early next year and provide the requisite parking needs for the Godfrey project. And therefore at that point we will have satisfied the arts here to commitment at Godfrey separately for those on this call that attended that community update meeting earlier this summer. You got to hear from Zach Mears is the head of the Detroit city walls program regarding the intended murals on the west facing walls with Godfrey. We expect the request for proposal will go out to the Detroit artists community later this year. And the goal would be to have a selection made in q1 2023 and we look forward to having community participation on the selection panel there as well as other commitments related to the hiring efforts. As we discussed Detroit at work is going to be the primary staffing partner for Godfrey and then finally we're a proud member of the courtown Business Association. I look forward to future partnership and support of the CBA. I know that we presented several months ago to the CBA on the progress of our various projects. Next slide. Before I turn the presentation back to the city, I wanted to highlight again the important benefits that will result from our developments. The restoration revitalization of underutilized property, or projects that are going to contribute to creating a more walkable neighborhood and help improve that pedestrian experience while intent and church and Michigan Avenue creation of additional neighborhood retail and infrastructure improvements that you heard about earlier sidewalks, curbs, lighting, street trees, landscape beds, stormwater improvements, as well as tax base generation and job creation through construction employment and property management as well as increased residential population and that's going to in turn provide support for local business. The last slide one of our most important commitments in the tier one was $150,000 contribution to the Michigan Central Church St fund. Consistent with our agreement, we've made $100,000 contribution earlier this calendar year and we'll be making an additional $50,000 contribution after we complete construction and our Michigan and Church Street component of the project. And as noted here on the screen the funds going to help provide grant funding to really a broad range of disciplines. I'll defer the city for more detail but some of those disciplines include community and economic development, arts and culture, environmental and public space, Social and Human Services, along with public health and others and we're excited and proud to be participating in that initiative. And with that, I'll turn I'll turn the presentation back to Erin. I look forward to answering any questions that the community may have later in the meeting.
Thank you, Seth and Matteo Saturday, just to add a little more detail on that fun piece specifically because some, you know, the contribution that Seth spoke to as went into a kind of a larger program that I'm describing here at the Michigan Central Church Street fund and what we did and what we were able to do was partner with the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to create a permanent endowment fund that they met. And Huntsville Oxford perennials contribution is actually combined with an earlier contribution of $750,000 from Ford Motor Company as part of the Michigan central community benefits agreement. We did this in order to maximize funds for the community as we discussed during the process last year. And so, what that means is in spring of this year, that fund was launched and an inaugural grant application round was launched. Through community foundation in Southeast Michigan. We held several community meetings, we had a lot of discussions with the NEC chairs for both of those committee benefits, agreements, and, you know, agreed on a process of outreach and engagement and so when that initial grant application was launched and accepted applications, I believe, I think through July 1 This year, and then those applications were reviewed by a local community input panel that included representatives from the major neighborhood organizations in Cork town and also in Hubbard Rashard in North cork town who were part of the Michigan central impact area. So you can see those organizations there. There are representatives from Cork town neighborhood association, Hubbard retired Residents Association, North cork town neighborhood association, cork town Business Association, and that's the in town Business Association. So I think a lot of you are probably aware of that component. What I'm happy to report now, just broadly is that there have been five awarded grantees it's actually very fresh news on the the grantees I think are just, you know, finding out if I think they may have just found out within the past couple of weeks. There were 34 the fun the combined funds were able to grant out $34,000 in total. One of the advantages of working with Community Foundation's that was they are a foundation that has sources of other funds. So they were actually able to contribute an additional $8,000 from other sources not related to these two funds for those grant applications and because they saw the value and they want to fully fund them. So they applied other other funds sources to kind of fill the gap there. So I want to share that with you a formal announcement on the awardees will be forthcoming, from committee foundation. Hopefully, you know, and not too long from now. And that the other thing I really want to emphasize is that this program is permanent and annual there'll be an opportunity for grants for grant applications every single year in perpetuity. The next one will be in 2023. And, you know, the way these things work, there should be more money available with each year because the fund will be growing just through interest through its own interest accumulation. So that's only in 2023. And maybe you kind of appointed discussion I was talking with Greg Yankee from the Community Foundation is there's a question on what is the most ideal timing for the next round. There's basically four choices throughout the year. So this year, you know, because of, you know, typically it would be a made deadline. It means that funds will go out around this time this year and next year. But there is an opportunity that we could move that up a little bit in the calendar if you wanted to get the funds at the community more in the kind of summer time and that would result in a February 15 deadline. So it's something we can talk when we get to the q&a section, but there are further details about this all on the Community Foundation website. We will drop this link in the chat. And I'm going to hand it over now to the director of the Central region for the planning and development partner Kevin tranche just to speak a little bit about other planning activities in the community. Sure,
thanks, Aaron. Again, my name is Kevin trontz. About design director the city Detroit oversee the central region which includes cork town, so had to have had the opportunity is early is actually a week ago. Or just over a week ago to to talk with many of you and update you on a number of activities that are result of the you know, two plus year framework plan that the city have partnered with the community on that began in 2018. But tonight as part of the Michigan church CBO wanted to talk on the clause that speaks to the city's commitment to convene a broader parking conversation and work to implement the parking recommendations that came out of the framework plan. So as was discussed last week, there's obviously been a lot going on since the this this snack approved. The Michigan a church CBO and council approved it mainly as we kind of rebound and understand what does a post COVID world look like? I think it was inverted set the developer talking about even looking at them doing assessments and under beginning to understand parking demands as we evolve post COVID. So what our team has been doing is we've launched some internal discussions with the departments who actually implement and enforce parking policy. So our role as the planning department is to convene and officiate and we've got two sister agencies, brother and sister agencies, that being municipal parking and the Department of Public Works we actually set the policy and then enforce the policy. So what we've done is we've begun to kind of dig back into those recommendations that were laid out in the framework plan that were presented publicly back at this point, late 2019, early 2020 and begin to see what still makes sense. So we're we're pleased to report that work. You might actually see some municipal more municipal parking good, bad or indifferent. Don't shoot the messenger. You might see some more municipal parking staff around but that has actually been one of their commitments is to begin to kind of under understand what's going on different times of the day, different days of the week in the neighborhood. I think. Lastly, the only other thing I'd like to touch on is kind of this bullet point around new and rehabbed parking spaces. You know, our team has done some very high level analysis and what we've what I've personally been surprised and a bit shocked to see is the amount of new parking infrastructure that has been planned or is planned to come online, some under construction, some just opening and the ability for the public to access that both one fully and somewhat fully. And this doesn't even count then additionally, all the private parking spaces in gated 1000s of parking spaces that exist across Corktown especially south of I 75. So I think as we evolve in this discussion, and I think that's a really important topic is is evolution and beginning to understand how we can connect and that was that was the big piece of the planning framework recommendation was more or less about the city will not be building any more parking garages. The city is not in the business of building parking garages. We only now own two. We've offloaded quite a few of those over the last multiple years. But we are in the business of trying to work with private the private development teams to provide access especially access to residents of the neighborhood and or visitors to the neighborhood. And I think over the course of you know 23 This topic will be discussed amongst many of you and we'll be talking about this more and more. I think it is fair to say as I mentioned, you know, we've been doing some due diligence internally. We've had some really positive conversations with many business owners who actually operate businesses in the neighborhood. And trying to check their pulse. I think everyone's really excited that there's kind of a strong market post COVID That's coming back. But it's also aware that there's obviously a tremendous amount of interest in the neighborhood as far as development is concerned. And what is there a district wide parking approach? If so, what does it look like? How is it enforced, who owns it and so on and so forth. So I just wanted to speak about that clause specifically. That's laid out and I'm gonna pass my time off to it to Aaron to kind of wrap us up.
Thank you Kevin, for that. So at this point in the conversation again, and thank you, Seth, for your presentation and your team as well. Dan, here's their project website where they're kind of like the latest and greatest on the project itself. And at this point, we are going to shift to the neighborhood Advisory Council and see what questions they have. I see there are some hands up and I thank my colleague, Edwina King for giving me instructions on how to raise raise your hand and zoom if you don't know Ron from Dyer. I see the three hands raised right now we will get to General q&a so you can keep your hand up. That's fine. But I am going to give privileged first to our neighborhood advisory council members. I'm hoping that you know, we can at least do one round of question from each council member if you have it. And then after that, we will move to General q&a. So you know raise your hand in the reaction button. Down below there's a raise hand or you can believe it is all PI on Windows. Option. Why on Apple Computer star nine if you're on the phone, although I don't see any phone participants with us tonight. So with that, I am going to call on Mr. Esparza since I see your hand is up first. So go right ahead, David. Good evening. Thank
you, Aaron. A lot of material was covered tonight and it took a lot of time and I have a general question. Wondering if there is an option from this point on if there are ever any requested or needed discussions on impacts or issues related to this CBA Can we have a meeting and not wait until the annual meeting to address those and discuss those as an act.
So maybe I'll go ahead and first if it's the desire of the neck, you know if an issue has been submitted to the city, and we do our findings, you know, there is the process to you know, go you know, there's there's a formal request to the NEC to investigate with Malva NEC member. We are happy throughout that process also to you know, convene the NAC if that is desired on a particular issue that comes up. It's urgent and we can I think we would take it on a case by case basis but you know, as the process that kind of like Jacob laid out we do have a way to kind of like filter through and look into individual complaints and also report that back to the net and I think was reported back to the NEC. We can decide you know, what the best format for you know, further discussion on it. Would be is that Does that makes sense? You did?
Well, maybe I wasn't clear enough, I guess. I did see the process laid out by the gentleman from creo. And that was actually the first time I've ever heard of that process. And it looked pretty involved. And I can only imagine the amount of time and effort that that takes so I'm trying to find another route. I mean, we are literally in this situation in a construction period. And I think it might be a more expedient option to be able to convene a meeting, bring the topics issues impacts forward, have them discussed and acknowledged and you know, addressed and resolved and, and continue on versus the process that was laid out earlier. So just just a thought that I would love to see if the city would consider in the event it's ever needed from this point on or for any other CBA that's that's active. So I'll stop right there and appreciated. Aaron, thank you very much.
Yeah, absolutely. And definitely if the need arises, you know, you know how to reach me. I think you know how to reach the Creo folks, we can definitely have that dialogue of this specific issue right prices up and try to work to resolve as you said as quickly as possible. Thank you. Brian Mar. Go, right. Hey, everyone.
Thanks for the presentation. That looks good. I know we've been talking to you guys. Well, Deborah and myself have had a couple of discussions with you guys about things and you guys have been great partners at getting items resolved as they've come up, come up. I don't have any questions. I just have two other things I wanted to mention that came up as I was talking to people last week, specifically on Church Street. So one is the security system that's at the townhouse project has like this really loud alarm that goes off like a notice that like people are under surveillance. But it seems to not only like do false positives all the time, but also when the workers are working late. They either don't turn it off or are unable to turn it off. And so for hours the entire street is basically li subjected to this alarm going off over and over and over again repeatedly. Which is definitely a nuisance. Like I'm several houses away and I can hear it inside. So just wanted to raise that for your awareness if you weren't aware already. I actually haven't heard that happen in the last week or so. So maybe it's already been resolved. Just wanted to bring that up. And then my next door neighbor he was unable to Carlos he was unable to join the call today but he flagged in a text message exchange yesterday that with the alley work that he did have some damage to his property. I suggested that he actually go through the city's website and put the report there that seemed to be the more appropriate channel and I gave him the superintendents phone number. So I don't want to get into in depth on it. Now I'll let him handle that but just want to raise that awareness and hopefully no one else on Church Street is had that impact on the ally side.
That's all I've got. Thanks.
Thank you, Brian. And thank you for bringing that to the attention and session mark. I don't know if you have anything to add. I'm sorry that mark. Michael, do you have anything to add on that home point?
I was unaware of the alarm issue. I will inquire about it. As it relates to the property damage. I'm also unaware of that. I know that a lot of times those situations get handled directly in the field. Our construction managers are very present and very active and communicative and well known so it might have been handled directly. Either way, I think we demonstrated that we are quick to respond issues. And happy to bring those to our construction teams and pension. I know that Jeff and Mark are also on the call and the likely taking notes as well.
Thank you for that Okay. Miss Walker. Deborah, go right ahead.
Stein you did a
great presentation. I wanted to piggyback on what David was asking. The process you mentioned was is specifically for complaint. I think if we had the opportunity to meet again, just for updates or maybe there's a combination of issues that are not complaints because that seems like the last straw to go through that Creal process. So one is that all right, we just have a meeting with a developer to get updates into a trust various issues that are not necessarily complaints just some things we need a trust in answered or do we have to have the city participate in a meeting with the NEC and the developer and the community?
So I know that you know, in your group, you've had a lot of different community meetings and such. I don't the city you know I don't have to participate. If you all have direct communication you want to eat and stuff if you're willing, then I don't want to.
Yeah, and we don't have any objection to that approach. And they were very accessible. I know that I'm accessible. I know that I've had offline communications with several members of the NAC throughout this process and enjoy those interactions. So we're happy to participate as needed and address issues provide updates. We believe in frequent and regular communication. So we're happy to help assist or answer any questions that anyone may have. And feel free to reach out to me personally or anyone else on our team and anytime. Yeah, and
I suppose if there is a particular city department would like to participate. It's out right we reach out to them directly, whether it's DWSD are parking enforcement, or even Creo just to get through the bureaucracy if we schedule it, work with that. And with that thought, I want to also make sure that addresses David's issue was well
done, Deborah to that point, I would say I think it'd be best to at least include Creo and planning so that we can help facilitate and I'll make that connection quicker. You know, we're here to help and make the process easier, not harder. And so I think it would be helpful and we can talk more about that offline. But you know, Echo might be helpful. I don't want to be a block or a gatekeeper but I do want to be helpful and I think we can be in those situations.
Okay, because I know you all are busy. So wait another year to meet with the city scheduling and all that I can understand the concern of the community and not having to do that.
Yeah, okay. And just and just to be clear, you know, you know, by the ordinance, we're PDD is required to host these annual update meetings for two years. And so that's why this is a bit of a more formal thing. We want to make sure that you know, we're providing a substantive kind of update and in layout, kind of like what's going on and given an opportunity, but you know, it doesn't mean it has to be the only time technique I saw your hand is up and then it went down. So maybe you're good.
Okay, because we do recognize that it's been very available. I just wanted to make sure to also address David's concerns. Okay, thank you.
Okay, I'm gonna go to Hilliard Hampton. And I know you're having some audio issues. Can you unmute and can we hear you?
Let's try it again. Can you hear me now? Yes, that's me, everyone. Thank you for the information tonight. There's a lot of information. I'm gonna refresh my memory on a lot of things, but I definitely appreciate the update in regards to the dust control practices that are needed throughout the throughout the neighborhoods and the construction sites will 11 streets be included. As far as dust control practices, I know right now, a lot of staging that's happening on 11 streets for the work that's being done on the alley. There's a lot of sand and rocks that are on the on the lot that's next to the gas station. So the course does contribute to a lot of the sand that's flowing on 11th Street but will 11th Street be included in the dust control practices?
Hilliard Ramona is Jeff still on call right now are Mark Aaron, are you able to unmute or provide access for either mark
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I'm Markazi one of the project managers on the courtown projects here. So working with Jeff and the whole team here. So here's a concern is about 11 streets and dust control. Let me you know, first thing I'll we'll make sure that that we get some street sweeping over there and take her any of that certain way. If that isn't on their route, already. We will make that part of their route to clean that up
thank you.
Yeah, I know some circular did you start something else? Are you good?
All right. Thank you. No thank you. I am muted again. Also in regards to the staging area, just an idea the the sand pile this there. Is it possible to maybe cover that at the end of every day with maybe it's hard to know that contributes to a lot of the dust is blowing down 11 streets. I'm sure you all have already noticed that it's kind of a wind tunnel through that area. So it just kind of blows the sand off the block. So maybe a tarp or some type of cover and a sword over the some of the items over there with help with the with us issues. I do have one more quick question. In regards to the plans for the downtown storage which would be now the radar error loss. Unless I missed it, it looks like on the rendering. There is a car entering that building in the rendering. So will it be parking on the first level or is the addition so you can share?
Your very observant CDB. Yeah, so there is parking on the first floor. That's the existing garage door that's there. Now. There's a combination of eight parking spaces on that floor along with residential units as well. So there'll be an access point there into the garage and then access internally into the units.
Okay, and notice it's still early but how many lofts are planned for this location? 22 Okay. And you said eight parking spaces,
a parking spaces and access parking will be satisfied with our adjacent parking garage. Okay, thank you very much. Welcome.
Great. Thank you. So to Nika I know you had to jump in earlier and you're having trouble on mute. Are you able to unmute nodes if you had something to add?
Yep, I'm able to unmute. Thank you Aaron. This is mica from creo. I just was going back off the the question that was asked about just having those conversations outside of submitting those complaints via the smart sheet. So I just kind of want to add like even so there's a difference between the informal complaints and the formal complaint. So even if there are concerns or issues that you have that you don't want formally investigated, you can also still submit them to that smart sheet. And we'll meet internally and with the NEC members to have that conversation on what's happening there. So I don't want you to think that the process just takes too long. But when it gets to that formal complaint, that's where we're gathering the entire Enforcement Committee and we're digging deep into whatever the concerns may be. But there's those informal complaints which are more so inquiries where you you just want to bring it to the city's notice that something is happening or that there's an issue that just kind of want to have a conversation about it. Just make sure that we're aware about basically those those couple of inquiries that were just mentioned today. I'm just so we can kind of keep track and we can actually do our due diligence to verify those things. So like I said, there's a difference between informal and formal. So I just want to make sure that that's clear. I'm a formal complaint may take you know, it takes 21 days and that's more actual investigation, whereas an informal complaint is just an inquiry or a concern that you may have. So it's not necessarily I don't want you to think it's just a complaint or it's like an actual x escalation status. So it's only escalated when it comes from the NEC as a formal complaint. So I just wanted to clear that just to make sure that was kind of clear.
Thank you. for that. I see. Also, I think Blake from the development team put some contact information into the chat as well for direct communication from the community, or NAC members who are part of the community to development team. I just also want to acknowledge that we were joined by Kevin pines, I think he's on here who is another NEC member, so thank you for joining us. If there aren't any other questions from that members right now. We are going to move on to General q&a. For this I'm going to ask my colleague Antonio to help with Klein on hands. Those who have raised their hands, and just for the sake of time, we are going to ask at this point, we're going to ask for a minute and a half on questions. So I'm going to bring up old timer deal. Tonio go ahead Who do we have first?
All right, first, we have Tom allanson. Tom, you can unmute yourself. Ask your question. Okay, I
believe I am unmuted can hear you Okay, great. Thanks. Thanks for having us all on this call. appreciate everybody's efforts. I particularly appreciate their efforts of the construction team to advise the neighborhood on parking, disparate disruptions, Alley closures and what have you. Well, I'd like to point out that there is an alley between Leverett Street and church behind the downtown storage. And it looks like there's a void in the street, near the sewer. Intense street and I wonder if she could have DWSD is attention call to that it's clear hole going through the pavement and shows subsidence as we've seen in the alley north of true street I appreciate that very much. I'm with the central Corktown block club and the Corktown neighborhood association and very willing to continue to work with the construction team to advise residents on the dust noise alley closures and traffic problems that inevitably occur with all this construction. So thank you very much. Thank you,
Tom. Any response? You know, he mentioned getting in touch with DWSD about their alley issue. I don't know if that's adjacent to your parking site or if it's something maybe Antonio and I can help with as well. Tom sorry, which which? What was the exact location again? I'm sorry for some reason. I'm asking you to unmute.
That's why make sure we get it down.
Okay, you muted me. Okay. It's in the it's actually a hole in the pavement on 10th Street that lines up with the alley between Leverett and church. So it's at the southwest corner of the downtown storage building. Okay. And there has been a lot of construction traffic through there. But we have the ancient infrastructure here, which we're very well aware of and glad it should fixing some of the alley North Church but more intention down here. Thank you.
Thanks, Tom. Seth, does that make sense for your team to reach out since you guys are on the ground there?
We'll take a look at that tomorrow morning. We'll communicate a response.
Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Okay, Antonio.
Next we have Mike Crowley. Mike Crowley, you may unmute yourself and ask your question. Hello.
Thanks for all the informations is quite a quite a bit. It's all been and quite an education, watching all this stuff happen around us. We've been in the neighborhood for about 36 years so lots of changes going on. Getting back to the truck traffic is it's better meaning it's less, but we still have trucks coming down Church Street concrete, double haulers. And we've gotten responses from the drivers that I have permission to do this or talk to my boss. And as far as the process of you know of complaints or suggestions or what have you. I sat has been very good. I will say that, you know he's directed our comments, you know to is site managers. And I think that's the way to go. I agree with Deborah and with David, that the this process that was presented earlier in the I don't know if it's by Aaron Goodman or by whom about this three week period and all the filing you have to do I you know, that's just not how to get things done. I mean, that's three weeks, and as lots can go on in that time. And last question, I got eight seconds. Why was the address changed in the downtown self storage building?
Or Park I'm unaware of any intentional address teams over downtown storage building where I guess you could provide some background or context on where you heard that or, or what the relevancy is. Eric, you
used to be 1551. It's no longer that according on your renderings or plans that were presented before. I'm just curious.
Yeah, I don't think there was anything intentional there. I will. No,
I'm not saying that. There was anything. No, either by just curious as Yeah. I noticed that I used to work in the building. So
ya know, we're excited by the future of that building. I don't think there was anything intentional on our end that I'm aware of as it relates to any address change. I will go back and look at our applications. That we made the city as we've started that internal review and approval process and see what I could find out there but there's no there's nothing behind that that I'm aware of.
Yeah, but the truck issue is is March the
truck issue. First of all, if anybody says that to you, it'd be very helpful and I don't want to put the onus on community members. But if you are able to take a picture or provide that information to us, I know firsthand that both Hunter pasture and Chrisman Archon have been quick to provide swift response to those that have blatantly disregarded the rules and the guidelines that have been set forth in the various forums that I and Jeff had outlined earlier in the presentation. And we don't take that lightly. And there have been instances and Wilkin and see where we have removed specific people from the job site for lack of attention to those details.
I had mentioned at an earlier meeting about signs on Rosa Parks and church and Rosa Parks and Leverett as well, but those didn't go up the other science did on the other streets.
Oh thank you,
Mark. I'll just respond to the question about someone there.
On there. So
to your point, I mean, we you know, and Seth and his team has been very good at providing direct contact to them. And I would say when you have an issue like that, obviously the quickest and best way to hopefully get a response is to contact the development team an issue and I've seen them be very, very responsive, very quick. If for some reason it's not getting resolved. That's when you would make that informal complaint to the city and we strive to do it faster than then the three weeks and the three week thing only comes into the second the more formal stage and that's actually laid out in the ordinance that we have to respond within three weeks. But if you submit the Smartsheet we try and get it going faster. And we'll have a say we're not always successful and being quicker than 21 days but we do try but sometimes getting folks together and say talk about it. The scheduling can just take a little bit of time. So I'd say before it even comes to city if it's something that can be resolved directly between the citizen and the developer. That's the best I think for everyone. But if you're not getting, you know the response you need or the improvement you're hoping to see and you want to you know bring that to our attention then then we'll take it from there.
Yes. Thanks, Aaron for that. And I I agree. 100%. So I just want to echo what Aaron's saying. We encourage conversation, communication between the neck and the developers. We want to make sure that that communication and those relationships are being built before it even comes to a conversation where the city is involved to be able to take those enforcement actions. So we definitely encourage that on the front end. I just want to make sure that that's clear. We will love and we will continue to support ensuring that the Nag has those conversations with the developer and that they're working to solidify any issues before it comes to the city for us to take whatever actions that we need to take. So that we like I said, we encourage that and we are happy. Honestly this is it's been a while since I've heard of Mac members wanting to have those direct conversations and continuous conversations outside of the city being involved as it relates to the communication with the developer. So I thank you guys for that and we occur is that
all right, Antonio.
Next we have Richard Richard note, rich Rinaudo if you don't hear me on mute yourself, yeah,
hi, everybody like you. Thanks for giving me a chance to say something about parking. Surprise, surprise. Risk going to be an issue with parking when will you two structures open? Just a little statistics the Godfrey has 227 guests potential. The perennial has 188 apartments the banquet hall that you have opening has up to 300 guests. The rooftop bar with 9000 square foot can hold up at 200 People that adds up to 912 potential cause or people who need to get spots, the amount of spot you have available of 248 as I counted up today, where are these people going to park secondarily, these people are going to look for free parking first and take up the community spots. We definitely need a plan of action throughout the community. I'm asking the city have a meeting with everybody. Kevin Strong's. Thank you for giving me some of the information determines we have a sponsor, but they're far away from where we need to go. Ideally it should be no more than 600 feet when people are coming to shop. These other some of these things are a mile away. I have an idea and I spoke to Vince about it had what's called navs neighborhood electronic vehicles going around to these different areas and pick them up. They need to be a dynamic clan develop for parking before in the next year and a half is a disaster.
Thank you Richard, we appreciate your feedback. Obviously that was strong feedback that we received during both the Godfrey approval process as well as the perennial quartile process. We look at parking really in two lens. One is what's required by ordinance by the city of Detroit. That's very clear and direct, mathematical equation. And essentially we have provided those statistics to the city as part of our approval process for both projects and we meet those requirements as set forth in the ordinance that's one bucket. But the second bucket is what you pointed out as equally if not more important, and that is how do we provide the level of functionality for both our hotel guests and our residents in our apartment building? So got Oxford Capital Group and Oxford hotels is very detailed analysis based on our experience in the hospitality industry throughout many different markets in terms of the parking rates to guests ratio. In addition to that, we have the parking garage secure for hotel parking. We've also as I mentioned earlier in this presentation currently have other existing surface lots not owned by us that are leased to provide additional support and capacity as it relates to parking in the neighborhood. I think that that's very important to emphasize again, one of those lats is directly behind the hotel, which is the 45 spaces that I outlined earlier. Along with the 90 spaces that are in close proximity on Brooklyn. We do have some parking as well that I pointed out inside of the apartment building 22 spaces that will provide support for our retail tenants in that building. And we're very confident that we will have the requisite number of parking spaces to meet the needs of both our apartment residents as well. As our residents in our hotel project.
Thank you for that. Tonight. I know that the parking conversation continues as kept spoke about so. Antonio, let's go to the next question.
And looks like the last hand we have raised here is Timothy killing Timothy cleaning, unmute yourself and ask your question.
Hi, this is shot Killeen. It's good to see everybody. Thank you for the presentation. I have two questions. The second is about truck traffic. So if you actually if you could show the map of the approved roads drive on an unapproved that'd be helpful. But my other question is Are my other comment is about sidewalks. The sidewalk in the hotel I know has like a has been built out with a concrete barrier. There are some times we've been out walking our dog where where that barrier where that Sidewalk Ends at the construction site. There's a piece of equipment there or the barrier has kind of been folded over to a point and so it's not actually possible to get like a scooter or us through there. So I just wanted to flag that and I will, you know use the email in the future whenever that comes up. And additionally the I live on 11th Street just south of Michigan and I'm on the alley. So my really my important question on truck traffic is what I can expect what I should be expecting for truck traffic in the alley right next to my home. Because folks do come through there I noticed that our alley was not highlighted either as a yes or no on that map. And it's like right outside of our bedroom window and you know there's so I'm curious about that as well.
Okay, and I will switch off of this so I can bring back up that map. Well, maybe Seth or someone from his team begins to address next to see in a shot.
If you could reinforce again where your house is located. I'm not 100% Clear. I heard 11 Street in the alley you're saying that the truck traffic is coming down the alley from 11th working its way east towards the ongoing work that's at 10 in the alley on the south side of the apartment building.
Yes, yes. And I know that's Yeah, that happens. It happens in the morning. And it sounds like you know what you you know, aren't allowed to start work probably at seven o'clock. I think there's a lot of folks are getting through there before seven and as folks are maneuvering and backing up and figuring out how to get into our alley. We do hear like those large beeping backup noises before 7am sometimes and again, it's right next to our bedroom window.
I think we can we can note that and obviously as you know, construction members of our construction team and leadership on our construction team is on this call this evening. And obviously taking note of that. You know, hopefully as we continue to make progress on the alley construction, we know that that has been an impact to all the homes back there. We hope that the short term pain is or long term gain in terms of the improvements that are going to be made there and the instant substantial enhancements to both above ground and underground in the alley condition there. We will take note of your location and evaluate and get a better understanding of why truck traffic needs to go down there and if there's ways we can mitigate that impact, we will make our best efforts there. But as Jeff had pointed out earlier, you know we expect that project to take another five weeks. There is work there that needs to get done by DWSD because that work gets done and we can finish up. I have a feeling that that'll help really mitigate the impact and eliminate that issue. In the room.
Thank you and is it did I make it clear where where home is
if you want us I mean if you don't mind sending me your address in the email that up there with that one might be more helpful because then we can be very specific but I do want to also address for a second, your sidewalk comments. So obviously, we're trying to do our best to eliminate the impact of the sidewalks throughout the community closures that we have are all consistent with the right away permit that we've been granted from the city of Detroit. That being said as we continue to make progress in our development and as we're able to finish exterior facade work and Jeff pointed out specifically I got free next spring we're really going to complete all of that right away work. I think that's going to make a big impact and have a positive benefits to community. Same thing would go on the townhomes in our goal is by next late spring, early summer. All the exterior facade work is completed there and we're making those landscapes sidewalk improvements that Mike marks had outlined earlier. And hopefully that has a big impact as well. We're trying to do our best but again, we were clear about this from the start that safety and security is priority number one and we want to make sure that we're protected properly protecting our job sites and protecting those in the public forum any kind of impact with our construction. However, if you do see something that that that needs to be corrected, as you pointed out earlier, again, that emails is an excellent place to start. We respond timely to those emails that will get you a response within 12 hours or less. And hopefully remedy whatever the concern or situation is or at least provide an explanation that gives you clarity.
Great, thank you for the questions. Thank you for the responses Seth and Nika and everyone else. We're at 750. Now I don't see any hands raised at this point and Antonio. So barring any final questions from the NEC members or else I just want to say thank you. Thank you. First to our NAC members who have been so engaged and spent a lot of time in 2021 of this project team continued to take their responsibility to the community very seriously. So I am very appreciative of that, as always. And thank you to the development team, and Seth and all of your colleagues for really a great presentation this evening and thank you to the community for your for your questions and your attention and to my other colleagues at the city. Thanks for your support. So with that. I know we'll have another annual meeting next year. But obviously as has been noted, that doesn't mean the communication or the ability to meet and resolve issues in real time stops between now and then. So I wish you all good night. It's been nice to be with you all again after after over a year. So thank you all thank you have a good evening. Thank you, everyone.