Apple confirms downtown Detroit location

 

The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant says on its website that a store in the central business district is "coming soon," but gives no other details, including the specific location and timeframe for opening. Dan Gilbert and his team at Bedrock LLC real estate company have talked about bringing an Apple store downtown going back to at least 2011. Various locations have been rumored and talked about both publicly and behind the scenes, ranging from the ground floor of 1001 Woodward to Chase Tower to the long-stalled development formerly known as Monroe Blocks, now the Development on Cadillac Square.

Crain’s reported in May 2023 based on two anonymous sources that Bedrock was looking to lure the iPhone and iPad maker to the Shinola Hotel block. Crain’s also reported in October on a job listing that indicated a Detroit store was coming.

 

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five projects in detroit to look forward to —

 

 

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On 2/28/2025 at 10:39 PM, mrnyc said:

five projects in detroit to look forward to —

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGlq3cFvy5J/?igsh=MXkwcGtqdm02N3p2aw==

 

So Detroit is getting a Cosm. 

check out detroit tiny homes neighborhood —

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFklkm8RBVS/?igsh=aWF3d3o1emdqOXFl

3 hours ago, mrnyc said:

check out detroit tiny homes neighborhood —

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFklkm8RBVS/?igsh=aWF3d3o1emdqOXFl

Love this, hope we start to see a lot more of this. Columbus just built one to help transition people out of being unhoused. 

Detroit Housing Commission to redevelop, modernize Villages of Parkside public housing

 

The city plans to reconstruct, modernize and add units to the 52-acre Villages of Parkside public housing community on Detroit's east side, Mayor Mike Duggan and state and city housing officials announced Thursday.

 

The current housing community, located near Connor and Warren, just south of Chandler Park — where officials invested $14 million in federal funding to build a sports air dome — has been deteriorating for years. It will be completely redeveloped into modern housing in six phases through the Detroit Housing Commission. The first two phases will break ground this fall with the help of $73 million from state-awarded Low Housing Income Tax Credits. The current development holds 274 units, however, only 125 are occupied due to poor conditions. The new development, when completed, will comprise 480 units.

 

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Multisports complex planned for old Uniroyal site on Detroit riverfront

 

The new plan with the sports complex and academy is said to be part of a broad vision that was laid out by Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores and a team of local investors in their recent bid to bring a professional women's basketball team back to Detroit.

If Detroit is awarded a WNBA franchise, the site also would host the new team's practice facility and headquarters, according to the source.

Pistons Vice Chairman Arn Tellem has been in talks with major philanthropic groups in Detroit about supporting the site's development plan, the source said.

It is too early to know the potential timeline and development costs for the plan, the source said, including whether any public incentives would be needed. However, any plan would eventually need approvals from Detroit City Council.

 

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Rare new single-family homes near Indian Village find buyers as Detroit building lags

 

Sales of the Greatwater homes, which sit a few blocks from considerable commercial and hospitality development on Kercheval Avenue, began last spring. Since then the developers have seen five closings and another closing is pending for later this month, Temkin said. Another half-dozen houses are under contract. Five of the houses are occupied.

Six more homes are under construction, with building set to commence on another nine in the coming weeks. Builders are finishing up the first batch of projects on Fisher Street between Kercheval Avenue and St. Paul Street and will start building on Belvidere Street four blocks away. All told, Temkin said he expects 15 house starts this year and another 25-30 in 2026.

 

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Train station, parking deck considered for land next to Michigan Central

 

The presentation shows the transit hub could be built immediately south of a city-owned Department of Public Works yard. It says that Michigan Central, Ford’s nonprofit that operates the 30-acre Michigan Central campus, is “working with (the) city to develop (a) plan for DPW relocation and redevelopment (of the site) as a new model of urban mixed-use communities.”

Michael Frezell, a spokesperson for MDOT, told Crain’s in an email that the presentation is “very preliminary.”

“While locating an intermodal facility at the Michigan Central campus is an option, we are still in the exploratory phase, and it is still too early in the process to determine an exact location,” Frezell said.

Funding for the project is “being worked out with MDOT,” said Sam Krassenstein, director of infrastructure for the city of Detroit.

 

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Groundbreaking set for large downtown project next to Campus Martius — again

 

 

Folks from Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock LLC real estate company and others officially said Monday they are kicking off construction on the Cosm live sports video dome and entertainment venue that’s slated to be part of what is now referred to as The Development at Cadillac Square (née Monroe Blocks) project.

The déjà vu is because this is actually the second groundbreaking event for the 3.66-acre site. The first was in December 2018.

The Cosm space — totaling 65,000 square feet with an 87-foot 12K+ LED dome and an adjacent high-resolution LED wall — is an anchor of the long-delayed development that’s required to kick off construction by May 1, per an extension granted by the Downtown Development Authority last year. Detroit architecture firm Rossetti Inc. is designing the space, which is looking to open as early as 2026.

In an interview Tuesday morning, Bedrock CEO Kofi Bonner said more details on the broader plans for the site will be shared in the coming months.

 

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Good lord, Detroit is killing it and I love to see it.

No, this sucks. For such an important hotspot downtown they should've made a classical design or build something more prominent instead of this.

well we knew the cosm was on the way — and there it is.

 

pretty cool get.

 

still a rumor, but hopefully cleveland is next — or at least someday.

1 hour ago, mrnyc said:

well we knew the cosm was on the way — and there it is.

 

pretty cool get.

 

still a rumor, but hopefully cleveland is next — or at least someday.

I didn’t realize it was that super fancy sports bar place. I could see Cincy and Cleveland getting one. I think it would also do well in Columbus but it would probably end up in the suburbs here. 

Revised Detroit COSM and Markethall design: much less spectacular than the earlier version.  Not as splashy as LA or Atlanta either; and I thought "splash" was what they were going for.

 

 

 

7 hours ago, mrnyc said:

well we knew the cosm was on the way — and there it is.

 

pretty cool get.

 

still a rumor, but hopefully cleveland is next — or at least someday.

If COSM is the current next thing we can guess Cleveland is due given that both Gilbert and Guardians' David Blitzer are investors - if not Bedrock Riverfront maybe NuCLEus site?

14 hours ago, Willo said:

If COSM is the current next thing we can guess Cleveland is due given that both Gilbert and Guardians' David Blitzer are investors - if not Bedrock Riverfront maybe NuCLEus site?

Follow-up - the more we read the more interesting is seems.  Hope Gilbert and Blitzer have Cleveland on the COSM to do list. Could be a good draw year round to add more foot traffic downtown even if only a few thousand per event based on this add we saw for WrestleMania:

 

https://cosm.com/dallas/events/wwe_wrestlemania_41_gsc_2025_04_19

 

 

I don't quite remember and if I already mentioned this before then I apologize. Could Detroit's People Mover be converted into an automated light metro line and expanded to other parts of the city? Then the current PM route can be turned into a Chicago-like downtown loop for future lines.

On 4/12/2025 at 2:38 PM, Philly215jawns said:

I don't quite remember and if I already mentioned this before then I apologize. Could Detroit's People Mover be converted into an automated light metro line and expanded to other parts of the city? Then the current PM route can be turned into a Chicago-like downtown loop for future lines.

 

i doubt it, but they could expand it, or more likely other rail services could connect to it like its cousin in miami.

Detroit considers moving Corktown DPW yard to free up land for development

 

A 43-page presentation Crain’s obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request earlier this month said officials are discussing the possibility of turning the site — which is at Michigan Avenue and 19th Street — into “a new model of urban mixed use communities.” Immediately south of DPW yard would be used for a new Amtrak station and transit facility as well as an eight-story parking deck, as depicted in the plan prepared with input from Michigan Central, the city, the Michigan Department of Transportation and presented to Amtrak officials last fall.

But not so fast, said Sam Krassenstein, the city’s director of infrastructure. He described the conversations as “very early-stage planning” and there have been no formal decisions made for the site, which has a maintenance garage and salt dome, and materials for street paving, potholes, winter maintenance are all housed there.

With Michigan Central Station and the neighboring former book depository redeveloped, a still-being-worked-out vision for a new transit hub and parking deck, a plan for a new Detroit City Football club soccer stadium nearby, new construction like the Godfrey Hotel and Perennial Apartments and several other new housing projects completed or under construction, it may make sense to relocate the city's facility elsewhere.

 

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On 4/14/2025 at 8:07 PM, mrnyc said:

 

i doubt it, but they could expand it, or more likely other rail services could connect to it like its cousin in miami.

Yeah, Miami is a good example but I was thinking more like Vancouver's Skytrain as it also has a downtown loop and then splits into 2 lines. Detroit's wide streets should make it easy to build rail on the main corridors.

Large Southfield mixed-use project snags $132M in public funding

 

The $209.5 million development proposal is for an eight-acre parcel of vacant land off of Evergreen Road across from Southfield's city hall and municipal complex.

It would bring five new buildings with 577 apartments, 42,700 square feet of retail and commercial space, with one of those buildings being a six-story, 826-space parking deck. Ninety of the residential units would be affordable at 80% of the Area Median Income. In Oakland County, AMI is $80,800 for a two-person household and $101,000 for a four-person household. Eighty percent of that is $64,640 and $80,800, respectively. At 80% AMI, a one-bedroom apartment should rent for $1,515 and a two-bedroom for $1,818.

 

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New apartments on downtown Ferndale parking lot secure $4M state loan

 

The $22.3 million project — planned for a surface parking lot at at 141 Vester St. near Nine Mile Road and Woodward Avenue — “has been prioritized” by Ferndale government officials, as it aligns with the city's economic development strategy, according to an MSF briefing memo.

All of the proposed units would be priced for those earning between 50% and 120% of the area median income in Oakland County, or between $35,350 and $84,840 for a single person. The vast majority of units are set to be affordable to those earning between 80% and 100% of the AMI, according to the MSF document. The proposed project would consist of a total of 72 apartment units, a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units, as well as ground-floor commercial space.

 

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BAMF secures tax incentives for $94M Detroit project

 

Grand Rapids-based BAMF Health has secured tax incentives to further its plans to create 90 jobs and invest $93.8 million in a new center in downtown Detroit.

As part of the project, BAMF will serve as the anchor tenant at Bedrock’s planned Gratiot Life Science Innovation Building on Gratiot Avenue at I-375, occupying the 45,000-square-foot first floor of the building.

Tuesday, the Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $1.5 million performance-based grant toward the project as well as a 15-year state essential services assessment exemption, forgoing some property taxes on its project to the tune of $982,000.

“BAMF Health’s investment in Detroit will bring good-paying jobs and millions in economic growth to Wayne County,” Governor Gretchen Whitmer said in a press release. “BAMF’s new facility will help them better serve Michigan patients. It will reinforce Michigan’s reputation as a leader in health care and the best place to pioneer cutting-edge technology that not only grow our economy but makes peoples’ lives better. Let’s keep working together to build a healthier, more prosperous future for all Michiganders.”

 

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Troy planners move Kmart site project forward

The Troy Planning Commission unanimously signed off on recommending approval of a first step in a plan to redevelop the former Kmart Corp. headquarters site across from the luxury Somerset Collection shopping mall.

Tuesday evening’s vote came three weeks after planners postponed their decision, prompting Nathan Forbes, the project’s lead developer, to express his displeasure publicly during the meeting.

With comparatively fewer fireworks, the Planning Commission voted Tuesday to recommend approval of a concept development plan — which spells out things like land use, site layout and open space — for the first phase of the project as well as a planned unit development agreement.

Both now head to the city council for its consideration. The Forbes and Frankel families, which own the 40-acre site at West Big Beaver Road and Coolidge Highway, also need approvals on a preliminary development plan and a final development plan down the road.

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Real estate developer bets on growth with lower-cost projects near Henry Ford Health campus

Brownell, a veteran of the mortgage space with stints at now-Rocket Mortgage and the now-defunct Home Point Financial, said he’d long wanted to work more on the residential development side. Aside from his work at Holcomb, he’s also built up a small apartment portfolio in the Downriver suburbs where he grew up.

The two vacant buildings now owned by Holcomb, located just south of West Grand Boulevard, are slated for conversion to 40 residential units, which Brownell said will be “naturally affordable,” priced at between 60% and 80% of the area median income, or between $42,420 and $56,560 for a single person in Wayne County.

The two buildings would also have six ground-floor commercial spaces, with one of them likely home to a daycare center, something Brownell said has been identified as a need in the area. Completion is expected in the fall.

From its purchase of The Belcrest apartment building in Midtown to its redevelopment efforts near New Center, Brownell said the company has eschewed “complicated capital stacks,” instead favoring the city’s Neighborhood Enterprise Zone property tax abatement program, which significantly lowers the property tax bill for the owner.

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BAMF secures tax incentives for $94M Detroit project

Grand Rapids-based BAMF Health has secured tax incentives to further its plans to create 90 jobs and invest $93.8 million in a new center in downtown Detroit.

As part of the project, BAMF will serve as the anchor tenant at Bedrock’s planned Gratiot Life Science Innovation Building on Gratiot Avenue at I-375, occupying the 45,000-square-foot first floor of the building.

Tuesday, the Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $1.5 million performance-based grant toward the project as well as a 15-year state essential services assessment exemption, forgoing some property taxes on its project to the tune of $982,000.

“BAMF Health’s investment in Detroit will bring good-paying jobs and millions in economic growth to Wayne County,” Governor Gretchen Whitmer said in a press release.

“BAMF’s new facility will help them better serve Michigan patients. It will reinforce Michigan’s reputation as a leader in health care and the best place to pioneer cutting-edge technology that not only grow our economy but makes peoples’ lives better. Let’s keep working together to build a healthier, more prosperous future for all Michiganders.”

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Long-vacant Executive Plaza in Detroit has possible buyer

Dalen Hanna, founder and CEO of Blackacre Management, told the Free Press the week of April 28 that he and his business partner, Maha Banno, are indeed in the process of buying the Executive Plaza properties.

He said full details of their "conversion plans" will be announced in the near future.

"We have a proven track record of transforming large-scale properties into successful mixed-use developments," Hanna said in an email. "The site spans nearly 10 acres of prime real estate, with unbeatable views of the Detroit skyline and riverfront."The buildings were originally constructed by the state, and they were built to last. It’s the kind of scale, structure, and location we look for, and exactly the type of project Blackacre is built to take on," he continued. "We’ve done this many times — breathing new life into legacy buildings through adaptive re-use conversions." Much more information about our conversion plans will be announced in the near future."

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Affordable senior housing moves forward in key Detroit neighborhood

Developers and various officials broke ground Friday morning on a $28 million senior housing development in Detroit’s Russell Woods/Nardin Park neighborhood near the Dexter Avenue corridor. The west-side street is undergoing a significant streetscape investment and now part of the city’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund.

The project, by first-time developer Fabiola Fleuranvil, will take a vacant 12-story building and convert it to 77 affordable housing units for Detroit residents ages 62 and older, according to a news release. The project is expected to be complete by September.

“The Russell Woods Senior Living Community shows what’s possible when we bring together committed local leadership, innovative financing, and a clear neighborhood vision,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said in the release. “This project will add great momentum to our revitalization of Dexter Avenue in a way that includes longtime residents who have done so much for our city throughout their lives. I’m so proud of Fabiola for making this project a reality and I look forward to seeing what she does next.”

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Detroit schools to revive Cooley site as sports complex, return aerospace program to City Airport

They include a $25 million project to redevelop the long-shuttered Cooley High School into a sports facility for the district and community.

In a separate project, the district plans to construct a new school building at the Coleman A. Young International Airport, commonly referred to as City Airport, to bring the Davis Aerospace Technical High School back to its campus.

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New downtown Detroit Gardner White store to open next month

GW Home, a new concept from the Warren-based furniture retailer, will open June 6 in a Bedrock-owned building at 1201 Woodward Ave. Plans for the new three-level store were announced in February. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. GW Home will sell furniture, home decor, art, accessories and gifts. The store will feature brands including Tempur-Pedic, Serta, Bernhardt, Rowe, Vanguard, Drew & Jonathan Home, Aireloom and Kingsdown. GW Home will also host community events. With the new store and concept, Gardner White will inject some additional local flavor, too. Among the furnishings GW Home will sell is furniture from Detroit-based Floyd that is modular and adaptable. The store will also offer pieces upholstered with high-performance fabrics from Bloomfield Hills-based Crypton Fabric, which are designed for residential and commercial use.

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How Detroit is converting old downtown office buildings into lofts, hotels

At least five office-to-housing or office-to-hotel conversion projects are under construction this spring, promising nearly 300 apartments, more than 100 hotel rooms and multiple food and beverage spots. Meanwhile, four more projects could be on the horizon.

News about two of the future projects emerged in April: a possible partial conversion of one of the smaller Renaissance Center office towers to residential lofts, and a possible full conversion of the long-empty Executive Plaza office complex at 1200 Sixth St. into the future "Wayne Tower," complete with 450 apartments and a hotel.

This growing lineup of conversion projects underscores how the downtown Detroit of the future, once envisioned as a "live, work, play" destination, is leaning more toward "live" and "play" in the post-pandemic era.

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Developer seeks 60-year lease for $35M Belle Isle Boathouse revival project

But first, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, city of Detroit and the developer of the $35 million plan, Stuart Pitman Inc., will need to forge a long-term lease agreement that will give the developer and its affiliates management of the site for decades into the future.

The DNR, which operates the city-owned island park in the Detroit River under a 30-year management agreement that began in 2014, selected Stuart Pitman’s $35 million, public-private proposal for the boathouse site last fall.

Plans for the Belle Isle Gateway at the Detroit Boathouse include opening it to the public with a new welcome center, new marina with water taxis, canoe and kayak rentals, restaurants, restored event space and expanded areas for nonprofit rowing and sailing programs.

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Woodbridge affordable housing development aims to preserve neighborhood character

A new 60-unit affordable housing development in Detroit’s Woodbridge neighborhood broke ground Thursday.

The 4401 Rosa Parks Apartments development is a collaboration of nonprofit developer Cinnaire Solutions and Woodbridge Neighborhood Development, a community-based organization dedicated to inclusive neighborhood growth.

The $25.8 million development will feature a four-story building with 40 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom apartments, all offered at affordable rates to meet the needs of Detroiters of varying income levels, according to a news release. The building will also include a small ground-floor commercial space fronting Rosa Parks Boulevard, a community room, green gathering spaces and a corner plaza, according to a news release. A new playground and a MoGo bike share station will enhance the site’s family-friendly and transportation-accessible appeal, supporting the project’s goal of fostering a vibrant and walkable neighborhood.

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Wayne State plans $200M building to foster health sciences research

The five-story building will bring together researchers from several health sciences disciplines and be structured to help accelerate discoveries in health sciences areas that pose issues for people living in Detroit and across the state and country.

“Most of the university activity in the past, historically, has been very siloed, and this is a very intentional way to literally build (team science) into the architecture, let alone the philosophy of it,” said Bernard Costello, who joined WSU in January as senior vice president for health affairs, a new office at the university.

“It's for all the schools to collaborate in, not just in a team science way, but in a way that allows us to bring things together with all of our internal partners (and) also some external partners” like Karmanos Cancer Institute, McLaren Health Care and others, Costello said.

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More development envisioned for Detroit's improving Dexter Avenue corridor

The city’s Housing and Revitalization Department on Monday issued a request for proposals for three vacant parcels along Dexter Avenue in the Dexter-Linwood neighborhood, about 9 miles northwest of Detroit’s central business district. Per the RFP document, city officials seek “a qualified developer/development team to transform the vacant lots into a mixed-use development encompassing thriving commercial space(s) and residential units contributing to the current Dexter-Linwood, Russell Woods, and Nardin Park communities’ revitalization.”

Submissions to the RFP are due by June 17. The city’s goal with the parcels would be for a low- to mid-sized multi-family development with other ground-floor uses, with housing units targeting a variety of income levels. The lots, owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority, total about two-thirds of an acre and carry an asking price of $50,000.

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Downtown high-rise redevelopment to restart after state approves loan amendment

The development team behind the restoration of the former United Artists Building near Grand Circus Park downtown has secured an amendment to a state loan following cost increases that have delayed the project.

Tuesday morning, the Michigan Strategic Fund approved letting Bagley Development Group LLC repay its $7 million state loan after it repays the Detroit Downtown Development Authority on $1.1 million in supplemental funding it granted to the project last month.

The state originally granted its Michigan Community Revitalization Program loan in May 2020 in the amount of $5 million, but increased that amount to $7 million a year later.
The project is slated to bring 148 housing units to the market along with about 10,500 square feet of commercial space at 150 Bagley St. in Detroit.

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'Aggressive' timeline revealed to build pro soccer stadium in Detroit by 2027

The Detroit City FC professional soccer club intends to start demolishing the old Southwest Detroit Hospital in July so that it can finish building a 15,000-capacity soccer stadium on the site by spring 2027.

Two of the club's co-founders shared this schedule plan and other previously unreported details on the project during a Tuesday night, May 27, meeting of the Corktown Business Association.

Club co-founder Sean Mann described the schedule, which calls for an early 2026 start to vertical construction, as an "aggressive timeline," but one necessary to get the stadium finished in time. The project also includes a large multilevel parking deck to go near the future stadium.

"The goal is to get this done by the spring of '27," Mann said at the meeting, held at the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit.

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Detroit soccer club buys more land for new stadium

According to land bank documents, the $538,210 purchase is contingent upon the team also acquiring other privately-owned parcels that are sandwiched between the land bank-owned properties at 2827 Standish St.; 2835 Standish; 2841 Standish; 2845 Standish; 1858 21st St.; 1852 21 St; 1846 21 St; 1822 21 St; and 1816 21 St.

In all, the nine parcels to be purchased by DCFC's affiliate, 402310 Holdings LLC, total about two-thirds of an acre. It would have about 160 spaces, the land bank documents say. The “402310” in the affiliate company name is an inverted homage to the late Brazilian soccer legend Pele, who was born Oct. 23, 1940.

In an interview Thursday, Sean Mann, co-owner and co-founder of DCFC, said the organization doesn’t want to have “a sea of surface parking lots” as part of the project but also needs to be “mindful of the quota the city has for stadiums,” which is one spot for every six seats, meaning some 2,500 or so are needed. There is also a large parking deck envisioned with close to 700 spaces.

“We don’t think (large swaths of surface parking) contributes to what we’re trying to do in our own backyard with this project,” Mann said, referencing that he and other team co-owners live in the southwest Detroit area where they are proposing to build the stadium.

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Michigan Central Station to get one of Hilton's newest luxury hotels in 2027

A luxury NoMad hotel is slated to take over the top five floors of the redeveloped Michigan Central Station — and could put Detroit on pace to have two five-star hotels open at roughly the same time.

Josh Sirefman, CEO of the Michigan Central nonprofit that oversees the 30-acre campus by Ford Motor Co. in Corktown, said the hotel flag, a recently acquired brand of McLean, Va.-based Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., is expected to open in 2027 with nearly 180 guest rooms. In addition to the rooms, NoMad — which has a flagship location in London and is also opening a location in 2027 in Singapore — at least two restaurant spaces are envisioned, including one on the depot’s western side, where a carriage house is located to be enclosed in glass.

“The NoMad team, Michigan Central and the Ford teams are very sensitive to adding to the incredible culinary community in Detroit,” Sirefman said during a tour of the property with reporters on Friday.

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^ i mean, it’s just such a never ending incredible story.