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Update 10/06:

Cover of Final Report Final Report

Update 6/05:

Record Eagle: Editorial, and article on MSU's final presentation.

Update 5/13

Record Eagle: Article: Grandview Parkway crossing proposals unveiled.

Update 5/06:

Photos of UM Final Presentation, courtesy of Jenny McKellar from Michigan Sea Grant program.

Update 4/11/06:

Michigan State University students Final Report, Vision for the Waterfront. Thursday, June 8, 2006, 7:00pm, at Northwestern Michigan College Hagerty Center. Announcement

Update 4/6/06:

Announcement for University of Michigan Landscape Architecture Graduate Student Final Report:
Across Grandview Parkway: Recommendations for Strengthening the Connection Between the Downtown and the Bay. Thursday, May 11, 2006, 7:00pm at
Northwestern Michigan College Hagerty Center    PDF of Presentation

Update 2/13/06:

The University of Michigan in cooperation with the City of Traverse City and the Traverse City Downtown Development Authority presents the findings of the Traverse City Waterfront Design Study

Traverse City Waterfront Design Study
Final Report Presentation (survey results)   PDF
Traverse City Waterfront Design Study Final Report (survey results) PDF

Update: 2/8/06:
Record Eagle Article, February 9, 2006:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/feb/09umstud.htm

Record Eagle Article, February 3, 2006:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/feb/03uofm.htm

Presentation of Michigan State University students from their presentation on January 19, 2006

Update: 1/26/06:

The public is invited to a presentation of the findings of the Traverse City Waterfront Design Study to be held in the NMC Haggerty Center, on February 8, 2006 at 7:00 pm.

PDF of January 19 Presentation by Michigan State University students.
PDF of January 11 Presentation by UM graduate students.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Graduate students from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) landscape architecture program will be presenting highlights of their "Character Study" of downtown Traverse City and its connections to the waterfront. This represents the first of three deliverables to the Downtown Development Association (DDA) from the University of Michigan.

The presentation will take place on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 beginning at 7pm at the Traverse City Governmental Center, 400 Boardman Ave. The public meeting will be held on the 2nd floor in the City Council chambers.

Larissa Larsen, Associate Professor in SNRE has been advising the graduate students since June 2005 on their research project. The SNRE team includes the following graduate students: Leah Hollstein, Erik Dayrell, Lisa DuRussell, Lindsay Smith and Sabrina Siebert.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Michigan State University will be back in Traverse City at Northwestern Michigan College's Haggerty Center at 7pm to take public input on their six student-led team plans. The plans were unveiled back in November 2005 via a telecast from the MSU campus in East Lansing.

Warren Rauhe, associate professor in the School of Planning, Design and Construction at MSU, will lead the discussion.

Our local partners on this project include the City of Traverse City, the Downtown Development Association, the Traverse City Convention and Visitors Bureau and Northwestern Michigan College.  Power Point Presentation

Record Eagle Article, January 11, 2006:

http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/jan/11studen.htm

Update: 10/31/05:

Live from WKAR in East Lansing!
MSU Students Present Concepts for Traverse City's Waterfront on November 10

Traverse City, Michigan - Interested in plans, concepts and images for Traverse City's 12,500 feet of Great Lakes waterfront?

Then your presence is requested on Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 7 p.m. at Oleson Center, Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) to join in the next phase of "Your Bay, Your Say," a collaborative process to develop a concept and plan for the Traverse coastline. On November 10, six student teams from Michigan State University will unveil their creative ideas about the possibilities for Traverse City's West Grand Traverse Bay shore in a live, interactive broadcast from the studios of WKAR on the MSU Campus in East Lansing, Michigan.

"Your Bay, Your Say" is led by the City of Traverse City, with the support of NMC's Great Lakes Water Studies Institute and a host of partners to develop a waterfront conceptual plan based upon the vision, opinions and creativity of all who are interested in this remarkable stretch of Great Lakes coastline. Through the Michigan State University Small Town Design Initiative, teams of University students have been working since June to gather community input about what the waterfront should be and look like in the years ahead.

On November 10, the students will present conceptual drawings and plans for the entire city shoreline, moderated by MSU Professor Warren Rauhe, director of MSU Small Town Design Initiative/Landscape Architecture Program.

Everyone is invited to participate on November 10 and "be the judge" of the concepts presented. The students will complete the initiative in January 2006 with a final concept plan for the shoreline.

The City of Traverse City, in partnership with the Great Lakes Water Studies Institute and others, are seeking funds to retain contractor support to develop more detailed plans using the results of the Michigan State University student initiative. Rotary Charities of Traverse City has provided a grant of $25,000 to support the project and other grant requests are pending.

Link to latest pictures

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Traverse City Meeting

Traverse City Opera House
112 1/2 E. Front Street Traverse City, MI
7pm – 9:30pm
Visual Preference Survey
Preliminary Survey/data collection effort presentation

Friday, September 16, 2005

Waterfront Visit

Traverse City Convention and Visitors Bureau
101 W. Grandview Parkway
Traverse City, MI
10am – 12noon
Walking audit of waterfront and downtown with Dan Burden of “Walkable Communities”. Join students from UM and MSU.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Traverse City Opera House
112 1/2 E. Front Street
Traverse City, MI
9am – 3pm
Traverse City Charrette

July/August: Public Responses

What is Small Town Design Initiative?

Sept: Traverse City Record Article
Excerpt: Warren Rauhe, director of MSU's Small Town Design Initiative, said students will host a public meeting Thursday. There, they will show a slew of images taken of cities around the world and ask residents to say which would suit Traverse City.
"The idea is for people to make the first step from words into images," he said.
Also on Thursday, Lawrence Molnar of Michigan's Ross School of Business will report on the preliminary findings of surveys of property owners and residents. Molnar said the survey will help identify what kinds of public art or landscaping is wanted and how to improve access across Grandview Parkway.

May/June: Links to articles about the project: UM News Service article.     Article from MSU Today       Traverse City Record Eagle

For any questions regarding this project please contact David Lossing, Associate Director, at 734-764-8029 or email at: dalossin@umich.edu

To receive email updates of this project, please send an email to: Linda Scharer
Block M
Fleming Administration Building, 503 Thompson Street,
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1340
(734) 763-5554 Fax (734) 764-3316
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