The DDA District runs along the entire length of Van Dyke Avenue within the borders of Shelby Township.

DDA District Map (PDF)

Business Directory

The Van Dyke Corridor of Shelby Township is home to a wide variety of quality businesses. From professional services like accountants and attorneys to retailers and restaurants, the downtown district serves the community and beyond.

To have your business listed in the directory, please complete our Business Survey.

Demographics

SEMCOG Community Profile for Shelby Township

Munetrix Guide & Dashboard to Finances for Shelby Township

For additional information please contact the township's Planning and Zoning Department.

Vacant Properties

Coming Soon

1. DDA Involvement of blight reduction in the district
2. Expand involvement of additional community events in the DDA district (i.e. July 4th Fireworks, Art Fairs, Holiday Events, etc.)
3. Walkability/Pedestrian crosswalk improvements to 23 Mile & Van Dyke and Crosswalk at Police/Court driveway
4. DDA assistance and input for investor development for the northwest quadrant of 23 Mile Road and Van Dyke
5. Undertake projects that improve existing and proposed open space areas, pedestrian walkways and bicycle linkages in the DDA District

Design Committee

The Design Committee plays a key role in shaping the physical image of the Downtown District as a place attractive to shoppers, investors, business owners and visitors. Our recently completed Streetscape Concept & Design Standards are intended to promote a unified and attractive physical environment throughout the Downtown District. The standards will assist business owners by guiding their improvement projects related to landscaping, screening, pedestrian improvements, and lighting.

The Design Committee recently embarked upon an Access Management Plan for Van Dyke Avenue, with assistance from a team that includes a traffic engineer, a transportation planner, and an urban planner. The technical team will meet with an Advisory Board to arrive at a plan designed to improve efficiency, reduce accident potential, and promote economic development in the Downtown District. For more information about the Design Committee, feel free to contact them by calling (586) 803-2052 or by email at dda@shelbytwp.org.

Economic Restructuring Committee

The Economic Restructuring Committee identifies new market opportunities for the Downtown District, finds new uses for available retail and office buildings, and stimulates investment in property within the Downtown District. Our most recent project is a Business Survey that will provide a database of businesses, properties and landlords within the district. The survey will provide the information needed to develop a Business Directory that guides shoppers to stores and tenants to available spaces Downtown. For more information about the Economic Restructuring Committee, feel free to contact them by calling (586) 803-2052 or by email at dda@shelbytwp.org.

Organization Committee

The Organization Committee involves coordinating community efforts toward the same goal. This committee is the "personnel department" of the program, assembling the appropriate human and financial resources to implement a revitalization program. Partnering with various community groups, businesses and private investors to reach consensus on important issues and to maintain a shared vision for the Van Dyke Avenue downtown corridor, the Organization Committee builds a foundation for a successful downtown area. The Organization Committee is currently developing a quarterly newsletter, website and volunteer recruitment information. For more information about the Organization Committee, feel free to contact them by calling (586) 803-2052 or by email at dda@shelbytwp.org

Promotions Committee

The Promotions Committee sells a positive image of the DDA district area to encourage consumers and investors to live, work, shop, play and invest in the downtown district. By marketing the district's unique characteristics to residents, investors, business owners, and visitors, an effective promotional strategy forges a positive image and confidence in the area through advertising, retail promotional activity, special events, and marketing campaigns carried out by local volunteers. The Promotions Committee is currently developing several community events including the summer movie nights, "Taste of Shelby" restaurant crawl, and a holiday wreath decorating contest. For more information about the Promotions Committee, feel free to contact them by calling (586) 803-2052 or by email at dda@shelbytwp.org.

Volunteer

The DDA is a volunteer-driven organization. Opportunities to participate range from a few times per year (at events), a few hours per month (as a committee member), or a few hours per week (as a board member). If you would like more information, please click on the "contact the DDA" button and provide your name, email or other contact information, and general area of interest or expertise. A member of the DDA board will respond and suggest opportunities for participation.

What is Access Management?

Access Management is a set of proven techniques that:

• Reduce traffic congestion and preserve the flow of traffic.
• Improve traffic safety and prevent crashes.
• Preserve existing road capacity to avoid costly road expansion.
• Preserve investment in roads by managing the location, design, and type of access to property.

Access management considers the design and location of driveways relative to the road, and the uses served by those driveways. It focuses on land-use issues including:

• Internal site design and circulation.
• Shared driveways.
• Connected parking areas.
• Shared service desks.
• Building setbacks.
• Site design.

Successful access management requires coordination and cooperation between property owners, local land use authorities, and road agencies to provide safe and efficient access to private property and protect the public's investment in roads.

What is an Access Management Plan?

An access management plan contains:

• An evaluation of the existing roadway and the land uses it serves: traffic volumes, road design, crash rates, planned improvements.
• A series of recommendations focusing on driveway location, design, and quantity, as well as internal site layout and design. Recommendations also address the location and design of future driveways on undeveloped or underdeveloped properties, as well as the possible location of future public roads.

Strategies for implementation, which can include new/amended zoning ordinance regulations and/or standards, a process for reviewing new developments and/or site improvements, as well as strategies for possible educational and funding opportunities for property owners to make the recommended improvements.

A quality access management plan requires involvement and input from the public and an advisory committee. A finalized access management plan is ideally reviewed by the local planning commission and adopted by the local unit of government, as well as incorporated into that community's master plan.

Access Management Plan (2009)

Purpose/Intent

The Intent was to conduct a site inventory and analysis on the five mile study area of the Van Dyke Corridor to determine typical streetscape conditions. Gaining an understanding of these conditions allowed for the development of a series of typical design scenarios which shall act as guidelines or templates to be applied throughout the corridor.

Findings Summary

Upon completing the site inventory it was determined there are various enhancement opportunities relating to the pedestrian experience along the corridor. Opportunities included: Pedestrian Sidewalks, Crosswalks, R.O.W. Landscaping (which also includes buffer of parking areas). These challenges are a result from lack of ROW setback and poor maintenance. The majority of these opportunities can be addressed by three common scenarios or solutions which we have mapped out in the following pages. Access management, business signage, parking areas, road design, contextual design issues, and vehicular speed control were also apparent though not as common. These opportunities are recommended to be addressed as part of the master plan or on an individual site design basis under the particular conditions.

Van Dyke Corridor Beautification Concepts/Design Standards (2008)

Van Dyke Corridor Beautification Concepts/Design Revisited (2010)

Shelby Twp DDA Encourages Sanitary Sewers as Economic Development

The primary goal of the DDA is to promote economic development and preserve property values along the Van Dyke Avenue corridor. The DDA believes that economic development opportunities along the southern end of the DDA would be enhanced by an extension of sanitary sewer line from 22 Mile Road to the Utica City limits.

Over the years, failing septic fields have hampered investment in the area and limited the development and redevelopment potential of several sites on Van Dyke. Replacing existing septic fields with sewers will allow more land area for building or parking lot expansion, encouraging investment and a wider variety of business opportunities.

Basic Steps to Construct Sanitary Sewers by Special Assessment District

1. Property owner(s) request a petition.
2. Petition request is reviewed; map of proposed area is created.
3. Township Clerk notifies property owners in proposed district that a petition is circulating.
4. DPW authorizes petition to be circulated to property owners.
5. With signatures of property owners representing 50% of land area in the district, petition is submitted to the DPW and reviewed.
6. Township Board holds two public hearings to: a) determine need of project, and b) notify property owners of cost.Special Assessment Bonds are issued to finance the project; the project is completed, and the bonds are repaid by property owners of the district.

For more information contact:
Shelby Township DPW Director
Dave Miller at (586) 731-5990

Agenda Packet from Sanitary Sewer Informational Meeting (March 5, 2009)

Presentation from Sanitary Sewer Informational Meeting (March 5, 2009)

Van Dyke Voice: Fall 2010 (Information regarding the sewer project)

Sanitary Sewer Meeting Agenda and Map/Plan (October 2010)

(1) Subject to subsection (5), each municipality that has created an authority or that creates an authority shall create a website or utilize the existing website of the municipality that is operated and regularly maintained with access to authority records and documents for the fiscal year beginning on the effective date of this act, including all of the following:

  (a) Minutes of all board meetings.

  (b) Annual budget, including encumbered and unencumbered fund balances.

  (c) Annual audits.

  (d) Currently adopted development plan, if not included in a tax increment financing plan.

  (e) Currently adopted tax increment finance plan, if currently capturing tax increment revenues.

  (f) A listing of current contracts with a description of those contracts and other documents related to management of the authority and services provided to the authority.

  (g) An updated annual synopsis of activities of the authority. 

  (h) Current authority staff contact information. (see below)

The DDA is governed by a Board of Directors, appointed by the Township Supervisor and Board of Trustees, that is comprised of residents, business owners and elected officials who volunteer their time to improve their community.

The Board meets regularly on the second Tuesday of the month, at the Township Hall. The agendas and minutes are available through Documents-on-Demand.

Board Member Information

Phone: 586-803-2052 
Email: dda@shelbytwp.org
Mailing Address: 52700 Van Dyke Avenue, Shelby Township, MI 48316

Gregory Gagnon, Committee Chairperson

Bio coming soon

Bill Andreopoulos, Committee Board Member

Owner and operator of Steakhouse 22, located at 48900 Van Dyke Ave. on the corner of Van Dyke Ave. and 22 Mile Road. Steakhouse 22 began in 1992 as Uncle Nick's Family Diner before becoming Nick's 22nd Street Steakhouse in 1998. The most recent re-branding of Steakhouse 22 was in 2019. 

Bill Hellebuyck, Committee Board Member

Bio coming soon

Franco Mancini, Committee Board Member

Bio coming soon

Pat Rabaut Konrad, Committee Board Member

Pat Rabaut Konrad has been on the Shelby Township DDA Board since 2010. She is also the chair of the Organization Committee.

Pat brings broad business background to the DDA Board. She worked for AT&T starting in the Sales organization and then moving on to Public Relations / Communications; Training, Operations and finally in Information Technologies coordinating the cross-functional needs of system conversions. She retired from AT&T in 2008.

She has lived in Shelby Township since 2005, moving from Bloomfield Hills. Pat is actively involved in volunteerism. Along with being a member of the Board for the DDA, she is also on the Macomb Cultural Economic Partnership Board, a member of the St Kieran Parish Council, past President and Board Member of the Central Macomb Optimist Club, and past District Governor and past Secretary/Treasurer for the Michigan District Optimist Club. 

Jeff Swartz, Committee Board Member

Bio coming soon

Rick Stathakis, Township Supervisor

• Married to Carol, three children
• Shelby Resident since 1999, Nottingham Forest 
• Michigan Republican Party Delegate 
• Owner, CorrectMyComp LLC, 2004-Present.One of 279 Certified Workers Comp Advisors in the U.S. 
• Pepsi USA- Senior Sales Management, (1988-2004)
• Graduate, University of Detroit Bachelor of Science
• Business Administration 
• Major in Accounting 

Lucia Di Cicco, Township Board Liason

Lucia Di Cicco is a Shelby Township resident for over 20 years and a proud Shelby Township small business owner and local attorney. She holds a bachelor's degree in international relations with a minor in French language studies from Grand Valley State University and a Juris Doctor from Western Michigan University's Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She is an alumna of Michigan State University's Michigan Political Leadership Program, which selects rising stars within the Republican Party to prepare for the future political landscape.

Lucia takes pride in our community and considers Shelby Township the best place to live, work and play in Macomb County. Lucia is especially invested in the community's success as a place for her and her husband to raise their young daughter. She spreads the good news of our wonderful township every chance she gets and appreciates promoting the great work of our community, friends and neighbors.

Before her election to the Shelby Township Board of Trustees, Lucia proudly served on the Shelby Township Planning Commission since 2013. Lucia also volunteers her time by sitting on boards of various nonprofits and professional organizations in the area.