Plan for a $19.5 mil
lion development along River
vie Drive re unveiled at
ay night's City Commi
sion meeting by City ManaS!
el F rmer and Community
De lopment . Director Chris
Davenport.
I Called th Riv rview
Drive Dev lopment Plan, there
e fi pects to th program.
An $11 million 10 nd
mod rate income hou ing d 1-
opm nt; a $350,000 P destri n
Pt ; 6 million R taurant,
Hotel nd Convention complex;
$1 million R identi I Reh bil-
itation program nd a $1.2
eli I Office I uitding r in
'th or s if the right combin -
tion of priv te d Federal
funding come throu .
Plan for the
PlA P.l ZA
the planning of' the Medical
Center which will bare abilita->
tion program at 741 Riverview
Dri e. .
Popcorn Jenny's and
lenny's L nding, the hotel, con
ention center nd restaurant are
being de eJoped by Jacobs, a
K lamazoo attorney.
ILLIO
Farmer id . that HUn
is being ked for $3 million. He
explain d th t $2.5 of that will
go for second fin ncing for th
hotel nd medical facility nd
$350,000 for the w Ik y and
the rest for dmini tration.
"We'r e jng th fruits
of our efforts," rmer com-
mented, "there re m n thin
here that e. h v b en t ling
bout."
I P Her n
PPROV LOA
onday's Commi ion m tin to up-
Dire t r
.
A total of $30,000 i
vail bl in that program:
in
UCOC GETS 01 RECTOR
UCDC as Iso granted
ppr val- to amend its contract
ith th cit to u th $10,000
remaining of its current funding
to hire a director.
Di pproval of th d-
mini tration of UCDC urf ced
at th J nuary 31 C mmission
or hop wh h t group mad
its pre ntation for approval of
the contr ct chan
urice Bi hop, owner
of All Tim Pe t Control, nd a
recipient of $50,000 UCDC
to nit fall, charged that th
not h Ipin minority
minori-
al of th
total to
pro -
that
SAYSBl C SSHORTED
investment
Verti nu , fi-
n nil con ultant, joined in
th confrontation ch rgin th t
th city is 90 percent Bl c , et
onl thre Blac h v recei d
UCDClo ns.
Cited er Huddle ton
Construction Co., $10,000; Pu h
Dru s, $6,000; nd II imc,
50,000.
Bishop, in comm nts
m d after t m ting fin r d
William cCoy, the City's Eco-
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