Members of the Arts and Culture Committee from the Marshall County Crossroads Regional Stellar Communities Initiative were before the Plymouth City Council members to discuss the appraisal process on the piece of property proposed for the Crossroads Plaza project.
Committee member Randy Danielson said that the plaza is planned at the corner of Jefferson Street and Michigan Street where the old Subway building is located. He commented that the property got another offer from another buyer, but the owner thought that the property would be better utilized for a pocket park rather than a retail business.
Cori Humes from Marshall County Tourism mentioned that the park would be a great tourism piece for those who typically travel byways and historical highways, which includes the old Lincoln Highway and Yellowstone Trail (Jefferson Street) and Dixie Highway (Michigan Street).
The park would include a few places to park a vehicle with an information kiosk of sites in Plymouth. Seating would also be featured for a time to relax or to have lunch at a picnic site overlooking the Yellow River.
Plymouth City Councilman Don Ecker, Jr. had concerns with the one-way flow of traffic off of Jefferson Street in the design plan and it was thought that the traffic flow could be determined by the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety. Ecker also asked about the maintenance of the park which Danielson said could be maintained by master gardener organizations.
Those issues can be ironed out at a later time, but Danielson asked for the council’s approval to move forward with the process in order to make sure the property can be used by the Stellar group for the project. That process would involve the payment of appraisal fees set by INDOT as it is an INDOT grant related project. The total cost was $6,785 which was unanimously approved by the Plymouth City Council members. That cost will come from the city’s $160,000 match toward all of the city’s projects in the Regional Development Plan.
