Instead of using the promise of a park as a bludgeon against new housing and investment in our downtown, the citizens of Ann Arbor should repeal the unserious proposal and properly activate the Library Lot by building a public plaza exactly as it was designed to be.
Looking back at 2020 on the Ann Arbor city beat and what’s ahead in 2021
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020 This is so cool! one of these two cyclists exclaimed after passing through Ann Arbor s new riverfront tunnel pathway completed in 2020.Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI It was a year filled with bright spots and not-so-bright spots, both progress and turmoil, and it was a year most will never forget.
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter demonstrations and the political drama of the U.S. presidential election, here’s a look back at some of what happened on the city beat in Ann Arbor in 2020, with a look ahead to 2021.
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Outgoing Ann Arbor DDA director Susan Pollay says she had been thinking about stepping down from the position for the past couple of years and decided to leave hoping to do some international travel before the pandemic began. She said the DDA is in the middle of doing some outstanding projects, and she felt it was a good time for her to step aside from the job.
Pollay says while a lot has changed since she started the job, so much has not changed as well.
She says the banking and retail presence has changed in downtown Ann Arbor over the past two decades mentioning the old Jacobson s store that used to be located downtown. She said they ve seen a dramatic change in the amount of people who want to live in downtown Ann Arbor vs. run a business there. She says there are now more than eight thousand people living in downtown Ann Arbor, making it more of a mixed use community.