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That vacant lot on Michigan Avenue

by David Stringer

posted 11/8/2012

The former Steeb Dodge dealership and neighboring gas station just west of Ann Arbor St. were torn down in 2006. When developer Michael Concannon's planned Village Marketplace + Lofts stalled in the recession, it spent an ugly couple of years as an abandoned mudscape of weeds and security fencing. Now it stands as a parklike expanse of grass and clover,

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