Fulton Place Construction Officially Underway

The Fulton Place ground breaking occurred yesterday.

  • Located between Lexington and Seward on Fulton Street adjacent to Grand Valley State University's Pew Campus.
  • $35 million dollar construction project by Rockford Construction
  • 232 "beds"
    • Seven three-story four bedroom townhouses in 13,000sq ft. three story building
    • Three two bedroom apartments in three story 5,500sq ft. building
    • 102 units (14 one bedroom, 84 two bedroom, four four bedroom) in mixed use 125,000 sq ft building.
  • 10,000 square feet of ground-level retail space.
  • On-site residential parking in both two-story parking garage and street level.
  • Completion scheduled for June 2016, in time for the 2016-2017 school year.
  • Participating project in the West Side "Corridor Improvement District"

"Housing experts estimate 6,250 housing units will be built in and around downtown in the next five years" - FOX15
MLIVE has done some, albeit data-lite, coverage on the changes required to accommodate additional housing and where this might be located in two recent stories: