ROYAL OAK TRANSIT CENTER ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN YEAR 4, FALL 2012 SITE Royal Oak, Michigan is an inner-ring suburb of Detroit. The site is located on the southern border with Ferndale where Woodward Avenue and Main Street converge. The site also anchors the southern end of the Main Street commercial corridor. Medium density condos line the north, while single family homes border the east. The I-696 service drive borders the south and the Detroit Zoo sits to the west.
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PROJECT The need for public transportation is growing in metro-Detroit and Royal Oak is the most logical place for a transit center. The transit center will focus on bussing and carpooling services due to the convenient location just off I-696, two miles West of I-75 and 12 miles from the Detroit Central Business District.
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APPROACH The idea was to offer another solution to the traditional transit center. This process would provide a mixed use structure that incorporated a transit center, office and retail opportunities along with residential units to create a more cohesive intervention. Included was a residential and commercial corridor along the north, maintaining the urban street facade on the east and west, and providing uninterrupted access for busses coming from Woodward and Main street.
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