The Ilitch family is seeking approval from Farmington Hills officials to build a 200,000-square-foot office building there.

City planning staff said Friday morning that an Ilitch affiliate, LC Trademarks Inc., is requesting site and landscape plan approval as well as a lot split for property at the southwest corner of 12 Mile and Drake roads for the development, which would also include an unknown amount of retail space.

Those items had been on a planning commission agenda last month but were pulled at the request of Olympia Development of Michigan, the Ilitch family's Detroit-based real estate company; they are now anticipated to be before the commission Aug. 15.

The staff member, who asked not to be identified, said 850 employees are to work in the building, based on information included in the documents submitted to the city. The property, long owned by the Ilitch family, is 35.5 acres and currently used as soccer fields.

Olympia said in a statement: "The land in Farmington Hills has been owned by our company for many years. We have submitted a site plan and lot split for consideration for future development opportunities. We have no definite plans to share."

The Detroit office of the architecture and planning firm Gensler and Troy-based construction company Kirco Manix are listed on the submitted documentation, according to the city planning staffer. Landscape architect Grissim Metz Andriese Associates in Northville and structural engineering firm Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers Inc. of West Bloomfield Township are also listed, the staffer said.

An occupant for the office building was not listed on materials submitted to the city.

A development cost was not revealed, although real estate experts generally estimate about $250-$300 per square foot for new office construction, which would put the building cost at $50 million to $60 million.

The Ilitches, which own Little Caesars Pizza, the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings, have faced criticism recently over their District Detroit project in the city.