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Genesee Towers Implosion Successful | Flint & Genesee Chamber ... http://www.flintandgenesee.org/genesee-towers-implosion-successful/ - 232k - Cached - Similar pages (FLINT, Mich. – Dec. 22, 2013) Uptown Reinvestment Corporation is pleased to
Genesee Towers Implosion Successful
(FLINT, Mich. – Dec. 22, 2013) Uptown Reinvestment Corporation is pleased to announce the implosion of Genesee Towers was a success! Flint’s tallest building collapsed within its own footprint at 10 a.m. as planned yesterday, while a breathless community watched this long-awaited event. Now that the dust has settled, clean-up efforts are underway to prepare the site for next phase of redevelopment downtown – Exploration Park.
Exploration Park will be a public park and learning space offering downtown residents, office workers and visitors welcoming green space in the heart of the urban center of Flint’s downtown. The park project coincides with the redevelopment of the neighboring Flint Journal properties that will house the new Flint Farmers Market, MSU Public Health program, lofts and retail space.
“Our sincerest thanks to Dave Lurvey, project manager, Steve Pettigrew and his demolition team, the City of Flint Police and Fire departments, the public utility companies, local emergency personnel , the Mass Transportation Authority and downtown business owners who worked together to make this a safe and successful demolition ,” said Uptown Reinvestment Corporation (URC) President Tim Herman. “We would also like to thank local media outlets for helping to communicate public safety information regarding the implosion.”
Post Implosion Update:
Back in business. Utility personnel completed initial safety inspections determined when it was safe for businesses to re-open. |
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Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:57 am |
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Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce wrote the press release for Uptown. Uptown Reinvestment Corporation President is Tim Herman who is also the CEO of the Chamber. Ridgeway White went on Channel 12 to announce the Exploration Park, which also helped justify the use of the $880,000 in Flint federal funds that were used in the demolition.
Ridgeway White and Lurvey, the project manager were also partners in the Powers and Michigan School of the Deaf project. So many interconnections. |
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Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:04 am |
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URC to remodel former downtown hotel into student housing /upload/images/news header images/subsect_image_n 1.gif
February 02, 2009
Contact: Marilyn Stein LeFeber, 810.238.5651, mlefeber@mott.org
URC to remodel former downtown hotel into student housing
FLINT, Mich. – The Uptown Reinvestment Corporation (URC) has purchased the vacant Character Inn in downtown Flint with the help of a $20-million repayable grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The URC plans to use the grant to acquire the 16-story, former 372-room hotel and turn it into a state-of-the-art living/learning center.
The Mott grant was made to URC’s supporting organization, the Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment Corporation, and the proceeds were then made available to the URC.
Development will take place in three phases. The first, to be paid for with proceeds of the Mott grant, is targeted for fall 2009 completion. The work will include converting the third through eighth floors into 250 beds of suite-style student housing (similar to that at First Street Residence Hall on the University of Michigan-Flint campus). The entire building, as well as the heating and air-conditioning systems, will be updated in the first phase. Future phases could result in a total of 550 beds, in addition to classrooms, entertainment amenities and meeting space.
Conceptual rendering of the new lobby. Project amenities may include an Internet cafe, game room, movie room, fitness studio and climbing wall.
The Mott Foundation earlier had transferred its option on the building to the URC, which is buying the Character Inn from the Institute for Basic Life Principles. The structure had opened in 1981 as a Hyatt Regency Hotel.
The Mott grant is to be repaid at the end of 10 years, with interim payments required based on cash flow, or upon sale of the building.
“Studies have shown that educational opportunities and redevelopment of the urban core are two key ingredients to the revitalization of older industrial cities,” said William S. White, Mott Foundation president. “While this represents a bold step, we believe it is important to continue the momentum in the redevelopment of downtown Flint and the growth of higher education opportunities, which are critical to the future economic success of downtown and Genesee County.”
“The redevelopment of the Character Inn for student housing is a significant milestone and will continue to bring new life to downtown Flint,” said Tim Herman, president of the URC Board of Directors and CEO of the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce.
“Every time we create an opportunity for students to live and learn in downtown Flint, we change the face and the future of our community. We are moving closer to our goal of having 1,000 students living in the central city by 2010. These students will bring new life and new vitality to a city that is rapidly becoming a modern urban center. That is good news for all of Genesee County.”
UM-Flint opened its first on-campus housing in fall 2008, with 308 students filling the $21-million First Street Residence Hall to capacity. The Mott Foundation provided a $1.75-million grant toward that building.
Last November the Mott Foundation commissioned the Scion Group LLC, a student housing research and development company based in Chicago, to assess the local demand for student housing. Its research revealed that there is a current demand for an additional 474 spaces and projected a future need for nearly 970 beds by the start of the 2013 academic year.
Based on this study, developers believe the converted hotel will help meet these demands beginning this fall. Additional details about the new housing -- including contact information, costs and occupancy dates -- will be released by the URC on the Web site www.flintstudenthousing.com as they become available.
The Uptown Reinvestment Corporation was formed as a non-profit corporation to strategically target areas in downtown Flint to redevelop. Its focus and vision are to acquire vacant and inactive buildings and redevelop them into mixed-use buildings, using public private partnerships and other innovative development tools. For more information on the project please visit www.flintstudenthousing.com
The Mott Foundation, established in 1926 by an automotive pioneer, is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. It supports nonprofit programs throughout the U.S. and, on a limited geographic basis, internationally. Grantmaking is focused in four programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty. Besides Flint, offices are located in metropolitan Detroit, Johannesburg (South Africa) and London. The Foundation, with 2012 year-end assets of $2.28 billion, made 439 grants totaling $91 million. For more information, visit www.mott.org.
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Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:14 am |
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| Tim Herman is the registered agent for both Uptown Reinvestment corporations, the profit and the nonprofit. |
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Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:21 am |
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Nice Post and discussion!  India is a favorite place for property dealing investors the world over today. The residential property market is ultra active and it has been aided by flats and residential enclaves coming up within and throughout the different metros and other cities. Confused whether you must invest in an flats or buy plots for yourself?
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Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:38 am |
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| Looks like this issue is once again up for review. The safety of this ramp and the ramp for the former Character Inn have been in question for many years. |
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Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:23 am |
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Future of McCree Parking Ramp unknown after top levels deemed unsafe
Caution tape is strung across the third floor of the McCree parking structure, closed because they have been deemed unsafe on Thursday, March 30, 2017 in downtown Flint. County commissioners soon have to decide whether to fix the failing beams or tear the structure down and find an alternative. Jake May | MLive.com
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Print Email Molly Young | myoung7@mlive.com By Molly Young | myoung7@mlive.com
on March 30, 2017 at 5:13 PM
FLINT, MI -- The fate of a parking structure in downtown Flint is unknown after safety concerns left it partially closed.
The top three levels of the Genesee County-owned McCree Parking Ramp, across Beach Street from the McCree Courts & Human Services Building, were deemed unsafe. Those levels will remain closed until the unsafe beams are either fixed or shored.
County commissioners say they don't plan to make a decision until they get a finished structural analysis -- a report that will describe the overall health of the building, which they expected near the end of March.
"We want to get that report before we make a decision ... We are debating whether to do a $120,000 repair or do the shoring -- if we buy the shoring it's almost the same cost as repairing, but we don't want to do the repair only to find out that we have to do that, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus to make it safe and then it's closed down anyway," said Ted Henry, chairman of the county's Public Works Committee that's heading the issue.
Henry said every option is on the table, including tearing it down and seeking an alternative or creating public-private partnerships to manage parking.
"We will need to come up with a plan to either demolish it or if we can buy five years out of repairing it or something, we might do that," said Henry. "It depends on the cost ... It's outlived its course I think is what most commissioners feel.
"Everything is on the table, essentially."
Commissioners are expected to vote Monday, April 3, on whether to post an open invitation seeking interest in forming a public-private partnership involving the ramp.
Many of the 800 spaces in the structure, which was built in the early 1960s, are no longer used.
The ramp used to provide income for the county, but county records showed it had a negative balance of more than $180,000 in September 2015.
Mark Young, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, said it's too early to say what will be done with the structure, but there are many other buildings in the county also in need of repair.
"We know that it needs work. It's just a question of what's going to be the best resolution -- whether to do repairs and if they'll last long enough to justify the cost of them," Young said. "Really, it's a little premature to say what we're going to do ... We have to look at long-term capital improvement."
Commissioners have long considered options for the structure, including selling it or demolishing it in 2014 when it was losing the county more than $50,000 a year.
Although then, the ramp was deemed safe but it was forecast to need cosmetic and structural repairs in the near future. |
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