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Resort Village, MI

Proposed waterfront resort, northwest Michigan. The plan features a large lakeview green fronted with small cottages and a community center.  A small cafe, park and shops are planned along the lake shore. The plan is currently in review by the local municipality. 2024

City Center, FL

Proposed city center with 2,000 dwellings, 1 million sf of commercial and multiple civic institutions; Florida: 2015 

Health Village, MI

Health Village, MI

Proposed health village planned for new regional hospital with missing-middle housing, office, senior housing and commercial village; Michigan: 2019 

New Village, MI

Health Village, MI

Proposed new village in Keego Harbor, MI.  The mixed-use center is planned to transform a county highway into a mixed-use walkable village.  The city has adapted GPG's proposed Form Based Code and approved the master plan.  2022

New Village, MI

Proposed new village for Green Lake Twp., northwest Michigan. Planned as a phased retrofit of older shopping centers to serve as a center for the community.  Plan includes a library, cottages, 5 small shops and a town green.  Completed 2002.

New Neighborhood

Proposed new neighborhood and village center on inland lake; Village of Lake Orion, Michigan: 2002  

City Mixed-Use Infill

Proposed landmark hotel, theater, 200 upscale residential dwellings, 25 retail shops, clustered in six traditionally designed buildings over an underground parking structure. Planned on a vacant city block; Petoskey, Michigan 2017 Proposal was turned down by city. 

Resort Village

Proposed destination resort designed as a historic Bavarian village; Michigan:  The plan includes 25 shops and restaurants, a new main street, hotel and town square. 2016 

Suburban Retrofit

Suburban Retrofit

Proposed large mixed-use town center on former regional shopping mall site; SE Michigan: 2017 

City Center

Village Center

Suburban Retrofit

Proposed mixed-use town center for Troy, MI, an upscale suburban community on an existing governmental center site; SE Michigan: Plan includes a new library, 2 parks, a lake, 2,000 residential dwellings, 300,000 sf of retail and office, a hotel and large town square.  2017 

Tech Campus

Village Center

Village Center

Proposed retrofit of an existing suburban university office park into a mixed-use technology campus including: Educational center, 1,000 missing middle dwellings, 1 million technology & research space clustered around three commercial villages; Michigan: 2017

Village Center

Village Center

Village Center

Proposed small upscale mixed-use village designed to reflect Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook's historic campus.; Bloomfield Hills, MI: 2014  


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