Downtown Royal Oak Apartment Project Moves Forward

ROYAL OAK, MI — A three-story apartment building in downtown Royal Oak recently took a step closer to reality. Aimed at young professionals with rents as high as $2,500 per month, the development would be located at the corner of South Washington and West Harrison avenues. Royal Oak’s planning commission approved the project, but asked for a few changes in designs, including additional screening for parking areas.

“I find the ground-level parking, even with the screening that is offered on Washington, unacceptable,” said Sharlan Douglas, mayor pro tem and planning commissioner.

“You’re talking about ‘revitalizing’ and ‘urban’ and all of these cool words, but when I drive up and down Washington, and I look at eye level, I’m going to see a parking lot, a surface lot that has some less-than-adequate screening on it,” Planning Commissioner Dan Godek said.

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