Author Archives: Frank.Crouse

2019 Retail Market Analysis – Severely Flawed

In late 2018, Hartland hired Gibbs Planning Group to help it determine whether “too much land is currently zoned commercial and whether changes to the existing commercially zoned properties should be made.”   A summary of the study was presented on April 4th, 2019 by Robert Gibbs, owner.  A copy of the study was included in… Read More »

MENARDS – LESSONS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN LEARNED

While attempting to put the HBA in its place during HBA’s October 2018 appearance at Call-to-the-Public, an elite spokesperson for the Township stated we at the HBA were “clueless’ regarding Menards.   Now that the dust has settled, Menards is fully established in Wixom, and Ramco is exploring conversion of the previously-proposed Menards site to apartments… Read More »

Supplemental Report to Members – 10/16/2018

Supplemental Report to HBA Members Events Related to Our Participation in Call to the Public  10-16-2018 MAJOR CHANGE OF DIRECTION Further Thoughts– Tom Parshall previously provided you with a brief report on our appearance at Call to the Public with Hartland, on October 16th, and provided a link to the video of the meeting –… Read More »

Proposed Workplan With Township

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT.  Based on our shared belief that the Township, when prompted by their own surveys, would wish to take action to make Hartland more business friendly, we proposed a collaborative project with Hartland Township.  We (Kuhn, Parshall, and Crouse) submitted a Proposed Workplan to Supervisor Fountain and Commissioner Colaianne in March of 2018..   That plan can be… Read More »