Potential Customers on the Sterling Secondary?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:36 pm
The Detroit News had a story today on the resurgence of manufacturing in Sterling Heights. Particularly, the story features the Sterling Enterprise Park being developed on the former Sunnybrook Golf Course. This is directly across 17 Mile from Sterling Yard on the Sterling Secondary at Chrysler Sterling Assembly, and opposite Ford Sterling Axle, so I guess this industrial park would technically be on the Utical Industrial Track.
Apparently, it will break ground in the spring. Maybe we'll see new customers since it's right on the line? Or is it more likely this stuff will rely on the truckign industry? Guess we'll just have to wait and see.The Sterling Heights project, referred to as the Sterling Enterprise Park, is on the site of the former Sunnybrook Golf Course at 17 Mile and Van Dyke. It is the largest real estate development in the city since the construction in 1976 of Lakeside Mall at Schoenherr and Hall, according to city officials.
“The Sunnybrook development gives manufacturers space to grow. This is something that was really needed,” said Melissa Roy, executive director of Advancing Macomb, a nonprofit focused on integrating economic and community development in the county. “Macomb (County) is the third county in the nation for manufacturing growth since 2009. This speaks volumes about not only Macomb County, but the Greater Detroit area.”
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Located in the Sterling Heights manufacturing corridor, the land for the development has been zoned industrial and will offer build-to-suit opportunities, and include two new hotels.
Once developed and occupied, the enterprise park could generate annual property taxes of around $800,000, according to the city, in contrast to the closed Sunnybrook Golf Course, which generated $168,000 a year in taxes.
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l ... /78266348/