The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-02
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AFFORD cross ventilation accom-
plished by having each unit extend
through the building or located al
the end OF the building.
The living rooms and main bed
rooms will face large gardens and
parks around which the buildings
are located, with "A door opennts
from the living room onto the, ter.
race lawn. Arrangement OF the indi-
vidual buildings provides for maxi
mum privacy.
The kitchens will be equipped
with seven-cubic-foot refrigerators.
ventilating fans, gas stoves and
built-in counter and sink, with am
pie kitchen cabinet space. Living
room ceilings will be exceptionally
high, and besides bath and ample
basement space with laundry IA
cilities, there will be included cir
culating air heating systems and
automatic hot water heaters.
Bus Service
While at. the present time the
community site is on the main
route OF Ann Arbor, Detroit ana
Ypsilanu bus services on both
Washtenaw and Packard Roads,
the size OF the community will just
ify extension OF Ann Arbor bus
service through the property.
Plans for the project were ad-
vanced materially by Raymond
Foley, state director, Earl Down
ing, chief state underwater, and
the Detroit staff OF the Federal
Housing Administration, which
made rental surveys, and extern
sive analyses OF costs and avail
ability OF materials. Insured under
section sos OF the FILA. the mort
gage was negotiated by Reaume
G. Silloway, Inc. Realtors, with tho
Equitable Life Assurance Society OF
the United States
Mrs. Mary Martin Robinson. spe-
cialist in community planning and
housing, OF Grand Rapids. assisted
the architects in the planning of
the Project.
The general contract has been
awarded to the Esslinger-Misch
Company. Detroit, we'll known con-
Germ with many years experience
in the building field. II has COM
pleted building construction to a
value OF over ninety million dol
lars during the last few years.
Shoecraft, Drury and MacNamee.
OF Ann Arbor, we're consulting en-
gineers, and Andrew F. Coughey,
OF Detroit. consultant for the me-
chanical engineering involved.
Charles Noble. we'll known arr
chitect OF Detroit. has designed
among other buildings, the Lee
Plaza Hotel. Northwest branch of
Grace Hospital, Michigan Mutual
Liability Hospital in Detroit. extern
sion OF the Cottage Hospital in
Crosse Pointe, and several hundred
homes for the Garholz-Healy Com
pany OF Flint. Michigan.
Wallace Frost. associated archi.
tect, is internationally known Tor
many beautiful private dwellings,
including those OF Ross Judson Of
Crosse Pointe, John Waiting, vii.
liam Lerchen and Edward Thorn OF
Bloomfield Hills, as we'll as many
notable ones in California. Wilcox
and Laird are the landscape archi-
tects for the extensive landscape
work to be done.
Reaume & Silloway, Realtors. De-
troit property managers, who will
be the managing agents with Ann
Arbor Realtors cooperating in the
renting activity, have had long ex-
perience in this field. They were
associated with the development OF
River Terrace, East Jefferson Ave
nue., Detroit, located on and ex-
tending to the river front, and with
Chicago-Lawton Terrace. located
on Chicago Boulevard. Detroit, and
manage both projects as we'll as
many other residential and COM
mercial properties. Reaume & Sill
loway were also advisers to the
Ford Foundation in the develop
ment OF its Springwells Village 10.
Gated on Greenfield Road south OF
Michigan Avenue In Dearborn.
With ground already broken, the
first units are expected to be ready
for occupancy in February and the
entire community within a year.