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  Commissioners Approve Budget for Downtown Pontiac Revitalization Project

  This once-in-a-generation $174.5 million investment will redevelop and reconnect the city’s core, positioning Pontiac for a resurgence after decades of disinvestment.

  05/23/2025 10:04 AM

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  Transformational Change Coming to Downtown Pontiac as Phoenix Center Demolition Begins

  The long-awaited structural demolition of the Phoenix Center starts in May, marking a major step in the revitalization of Downtown Pontiac. Soft demolition is underway.

  04/08/2025 11:00 AM

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  VIDEO: Last Ride Under Pontiac’s Phoenix Center as Demolition and Redevelopment Begin

  Pontiac, MI – The Phoenix Center – a long-vacant event venue that dominated the Pontiac skyline with its pair of cone-shaped canopies – is coming down.

  03/31/2025

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  Mt. Clemens, Pontiac attempt quiet comebacks as nation cheers Detroit progress

  Now, these historic county seats of Oakland and Macomb are showing signs of progress.

  01/22/2025 6:18 AM

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  Oakland County nears deal for major Pontiac redevelopment with demo starting in January

  Oakland County officials are in the midst of brokering a deal with a pair of major real estate companies to redevelop the southern part of downtown Pontiac as it works to create a satellite campus there for its employees.

  10/29/2024

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  Pontiac 'teetering' toward revival. Can county investment make it the next Royal Oak?

  Plans to bring 700 county employees from a dozen and a half different departments to downtown Pontiac by the spring of 2026 are moving forward.

  08/12/2024

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  ‘Pontiac Project’ advances

  It started last summer with Oakland County offering property owner and real-estate developer Tarik Dinha, $19.2 million to to buy Ottawa Tower I, 5111 Woodward Ave.; Ottawa Tower II, 31 Judson St., the former General Motors office building; and four adjacent parcels of land all located inside the Wo

  01/31/2024 4:27 PM

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  Development Projects in Pontiac

  In August, Oakland County and Pontiac officials announced a plan intended to transform the city’s downtown with the help of a $50 million state grant, the largest allocation for a district project in the state budget.

  11/07/2023

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  Oakland County purchases land for new downtown Pontiac offices

  Oakland County has purchased two office towers, several vacant land parcels, and the Phoenix Center garage and amphitheater for a downtown Pontiac campus that will house up to 600 county employees, officials said Thursday.

  08/17/2023 10:27 PM

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  Oakland County and Pontiac Partner to Redevelop, Revitalize, and Reconnect Downtown

  Oakland County has closed on the sale of two office towers in Downtown Pontiac and is moving ahead on redeveloping, revitalizing, and reconnecting downtown.

  08/17/2023 1:11 PM

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