Liberty Lofts sell out in downtown Ann Arbor
Going once… Going twice… Liberty Lofts in downtown Ann Arbor are gone now that all of the residential units are sold out.
Just in time for baseball season, new units at the Liberty Lofts development are going, going, gone. The authentic lofts in downtown
“It’s been a great project for us, the region and the community,” says Ronald Mucha, member of Chicago-based Morningside Group, the developer behind the project. “We had great timing. We came into the market first.”
The project, a model for urban redevelopment, won awards for turning an old factory on the edge of downtown into a high-density residential complex. The six-story building went from housing an automotive parts manufacturer for most of the 20th Century to housing 68 lofts in the 21st Century.
The structure is surrounded by
The lofts range in size from 844 to 2,337 square feet. They’re considered authentic (at least the ones in the original building) because they emphasize the building’s industrial heritage with open floor plans, exposed mushroom-shaped concrete columns and burnished block concrete walls.
While the residential sales aspect is finished for the developer, the commercial section of the building is still up for lease. That single-story extension of the plant, at the corner of
The Ann Arbor Historic District Commission gave Liberty Lofts an Adaptive Reuse Award as an outstanding example of sustainable development last year because it mixes the old and new parts of the structure gracefully and increases the housing density downtown. The developers were also lauded for efficiently using the land, effectively mixing retail and residential space and redeveloping a brown field site in a flood plain.
Source: Ronald Mucha, member of Morningside
Writer: Jon Zemke
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