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Scaled-back version of Madison on Main headed to City Council for approval
By Ryan Stanton. Mlive. August 6, 2015.

Ann Arbor developer Dan Ketelaar has reduced the scope of his proposed Madison on Main luxury apartment development on the edge of the Old West Side.

As presented to the city's Planning Commission Wednesday night, it's now 60 feet tall, five stories and 26 units.

It was proposed earlier this year as a 78-foot-tall, seven-story, 33-unit apartment building at the southwest corner of Main and Madison streets, the vacant corner lot where Happy's Pizza burned down in a fire in January 2014.

The Planning Commission voted 7-0 in favor of the scale-back version of the project, forwarding it to the City Council for final approval.

Now measuring 32,616 square feet, the Madison on Main is estimated to cost $6 million to construct.

The new apartment building would rise immediately next to the six-story, 164-unit apartment building known as 618 South Main, another one of Ketelaar's projects that's being finished right now and already about 75 percent leased.

Ketelaar, president of Urban Group Development in Ann Arbor, believes the Madison on Main will complement 618 South Main and serve as an attractive entrance to the Old West Side neighborhood, with apartments rising above a ground-floor retail space that's shown in drawings as the "Madison Cafe."

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