It appears that the developers are looking at the community center in Valley Court as another possible location for a development, and that is what the talks are about. They are very pleased with the pace of the project, and might be looking to obtain the site of the community center for another building.
If they do this, I hope that they leave the community center as the first floor of the new building.
There seems to be some physical confirmation that the large building on the corner is not happening in the near future. They started planting grass....
In reference to the previous post from mindbender:
From the State News, September 9, 2007:
"Developers hope to begin constructing the townhomes on Hillcrest in about four weeks so they’ll be finished by the spring of 2008. They’d like to have the mixed-use building finished by the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009, Staton said."
That quote seems misleading since I think there talking about two different buildings, the townhomes on Hillcrest and Park Place which the quote calls "the mixed-use building." It seems that construction on that building would take at least a year meaning they'd have to start on it right now to meet that target date of late 2008/early 2009. I agree with mindbender that if they're planting grass we probably won't see any work started on that building until at least next year.
from what i heard they're supposed to be breaking ground on the second phase of townhomes in the next few weeks.
as far as the bigger condo building with ground floor retail goes (corner of delta and grand river), i've heard that building design still isn't finalized and there is no impending construction date yet.
Thats good news that they will be starting phase two pretty soon. I don't expect the bigger condo building to be started until phase two is completed, and probably then there will still be market studies. I was starting to think that phase 2 wouldn't be started for a long time, with all the grass they planted.
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If they do this, I hope that they leave the community center as the first floor of the new building.
From the State News, September 9, 2007:
"Developers hope to begin constructing the townhomes on Hillcrest in about four weeks so they’ll be finished by the spring of 2008. They’d like to have the mixed-use building finished by the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009, Staton said."
http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2007/09/west_village
as far as the bigger condo building with ground floor retail goes (corner of delta and grand river), i've heard that building design still isn't finalized and there is no impending construction date yet.