240-House Subdivision Announced

240-House Subdivision Announced
Will Be Built On Tract Northeast Of Plymouth, Nixon
A new 240-house subdivision costing an estimated $4,800,000 is to be built on an 80-acre tract northeast of Plymouth and Nixon Rds.
It will be the first housing development in the North Campus area and will contain a neighborhood shopping center, park and school when fully developed.
The shopping center will have a supermarket, drug store and other commercial installations, S. Brooks Barron of Detroit announced today. He is president of the Arbor Heights Building Corp., developer-builder of the North Campus Heights Bunung Corp. subdivision School Site Bought
It was from this firm that the Ann Arbor Board of Education purchased 25 acres from an original 105-acre tract for a new school. The board has talked about eventually building an elementary and/or junior high school on the 25 acres, but no decision has been made.
Barron said the subdivision, which will have a two-acre park, will contain 240 houses in the $16,000 to $22,000 range.
Models of the type to be built are to be erected and opened to the public in April, Barron said, noting that water, sewer and gas lines are now being installed on the subdivision site.
It is a semi-wooded, gently rolling tract and is to have tri-levels, two-story Colonials and both straight and L-shaped ranch houses. 1 Barron said his firm will build both speculatively and on contract with buyers. Eleven houses have already been sold, Barron said. It's Between Firms
The development is about midway between the Bendix Systems Division building and the Parke, Davis & Company's Research Laboratories.
The subdivision site fronts | along Plymouth Rd. for 1,500 feet and along Nixon for about a half mile. The land was purchased from W. K. Goss of 4405 Goss Rd., Ann Arbor township.
Site engineering work was done by Atwell Hicks, Inc.