HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – The next step in a potential downtown Holland development project could be taken tonight.
Among the items on the City Council’s business meeting agenda is a proposed six-month-long “exclusivity agreement” with suburban Detroit-based developer Burton Katzman concerning converting Parking Lot 7C off of East 7th Street between College and Central Avenues into a mixed-use building and public parking ramp. This comes after a month of open houses and presentations that was conducted at the request of the developer to get public input into the project.
Mayor Nancy DeBoer and other city officials aren’t rushing into anything right now. In a recent appearance on “WHTC Morning News,” she said that “they came to us, we didn’t go to them, and so we needed to put that all into context. We realize that this is something (downtown development proposals) that could keep happening, so we would want to address how to handle this long term.”
If approved, the agreement would commit the city to working exclusively through next April with Burton Katzman on determining the feasibility of redeveloping the property.
