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City Council Set to Move Forward on the City Center Redevelopment

This typewriter can’t think of anything more appropriate than celebrating the city’s

75th Anniversary by building the infrastructure for the next 75 years.

Talk is about to become action in the long line of Livonia Vision 21 success stories over the past few years. A vision developed through a process of community engagement and driven forward by Mayor Maureen Miller Brosnan is now moving forward with yet another step in the right direction. The people of Livonia have asked for a Town Center, and our elected officials are going to make that happen.

On Monday, July 8th, the City Council will begin the process of funding and planning out a key development at Five Mile and Farmington. As we've all heard, the next step is moving City Hall and the Police Station and making significant renovations to all of our city’s Fire Stations. These actions will clear the space necessary for the commercial and residential developments to produce a Town Center. We already know our current City Hall and Police Station are inefficient, outdated, and nearly inaccessible for residents who use wheelchairs. This investment in our community will solve those issues while giving Livonia a more efficient campus with a central gathering park space that we can all use.

This plan has been developed, workshopped, discussed, and debated since the first meetings of the Livonia Vision 21 Committee in 2017. As promised by our Mayor last year, the true catalyst is rebuilding the Senior Center in a new location. With the Senior Center groundbreaking last month, now the stage is set for even more exciting and transformational change in the heart of Livonia. That will ensure that we build, as Mayor Brosnan says, a city our children want to come home to.

Monday evening, the Council will hear more about how we can initiate the funding method and secure a contract with Plante Moran Realpoint to maintain and reinvest in success – the same way Livonia Public Schools can reinvest in the community with its improvements through its bond issues. If all goes as expected, when the City Council approves these steps later this month, the City will have the tools to begin designing our new campus. It’s anticipated that if we can move on this now, we could see “shovels in the ground” at a new City Hall site by fall of 2025.

11 days before Livonia Celebrates Shakespeare in the Park Year Three

The typewriter made a stop at Stymelski Park to test the stage before the set was installed. I began as a drama major at Central Michigan, but things didn't go as expected, so now I seize the opportunity to use a stage when it's empty. I prefer not to risk too much embarrassment. However, I'll be there on opening night. In the audience.

Don't miss out! Refreshments will be on sale, or you might consider packing a picnic and bringing a blanket or lawn chair. As you can see the crowd two years ago settled in and enjoyed an evening under the sky.



Thanks to the sponsors who are helping bring this annual performance to our hometown--Livonia Parks and Recreation, Livonia Community Theatre, Theatrica Gladiatoria, the Hardies Trust Fund.

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19514 Bainbridge 48152

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734-674-5871

The typewriter is not available for phone calls or emails Saturday and Sunday. Mental health and rehabilitation time. Out and about enjoying life.

What motivates FridayMusings:

We can't only define Livonia as taking small steps toward maintaining the way things were. That will give us mediocre outcomes. Our goal needs to be innovative and transformative.

Absentee ballots are on their way, and as national focus shifts to the presidential race, let's examine your inclinations in the contests for President and the United States Senate. The results will be released on July 8. It has been arranged so that only one vote per person will be counted in each race.