Another single-family-home-turned-student-rental house is about to bite the dust to make way for a small-yet-denser building in Ann Arbor.
A developer plans to raze 930 Church to and replace it with a small apartment building geared toward student rentals. Gone will be the 2,000-square-foot house. Coming soon is a 7,800-square-foot apartment building with four units.
This is part of a trend in the student ghetto tenements that surround the University of Michigan. More and more century-old, single-family homes with no chance of returning to their intended use are either being enlarged or torn down to allow for bigger buildings.
This is happening just as developers are lining up to build student-rental high-rises adjacent to campus or in downtown. These vertical developments are expected to shrink the reach of the ever-expanding student ghetto and take pressure off traditional single family neighborhoods.
The development at 930 Church is located at the northeast corner of the intersection with Oakland Avenue. The house there now has been around since 1913 and used to house up to six tenants. It is now vacant.
The new building will have three apartments with six bedrooms and another unit with three bedrooms. It will also have six parking space and another 14 covered places for bicyclists to lock up their wheels on the north side of the property. The building will also have a green roof and is designed with a modern, minimal, square design.
Source: City of Ann Arbor
Writer: Jon Zemke
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