Dexter Township Permanent Fire Station on Hold While Board Discusses Alternate Land Option
The 5-acre parcel of land the township planned to purchase for the fire station was sold on Dec. 31, 2012.
Plans to build a permanent fire substation in Dexter Township are in limbo after the property the township planned to purchase was sold on Dec. 31. According to Dexter Township Supervisor Pat Kelly, talks with PJK Dexter, LLC, who owns the 5-acre property at 11485 N. Territorial Road fell through after the township failed to purchase the property at a cost of $262,000 prior to the expiration of its purchase agreement on Nov. 14, 2012. Kelly said by the time the board authorized approval at its Dec. 18 meeting, the landowner was already in negotiations with the owners of the Inverness Inn in Chelsea. The township had planned to purchase the property and build the station, which would put 98 percent of the township's residents within 5 miles…
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Mary Herda-Sprawka
11:14 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Personal attacks and innuendo are uncalled for and are not getting the job done. All the members of the Board were ELECTED. Maybe not your choice, but it is the democratic process. I am in favor of a permanent fire station. The millage passed. We all must move on and toward that goal. If 11485 is untennable, then I trust that the Board will move on to the next best option. Just hoping that the … more ›