February 9, 20187 yr Ashton Detroit https://scontent.fdet1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27858201_1613257445424807_4800162978555364731_n.jpg?oh=87ca919e4a7ce5f4fc6fd2b1d61bf036&oe=5B250C28 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 9, 20187 yr Woodward's I-75 overpass may be widened by 60 feet for new retail space In 2016, MDOT put out a request for proposals for what it calls the Fisher Freeway Downtown Crossings project, which in the proposal Olympia estimates to cost $10 million to $15 million. The Detroit-based development company, which did not respond to emailed questions, says in the proposal that two retail buildings — a 6,150-square-foot building on the west and a 3,000-square-foot building on the east side of the bridge — would be built on 40-foot and 20-foot expansions, respectively. Olympia is seeking funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, program for 80 percent of the costs for the first phase, which is the bridge expansion. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180206/blog016/652336/woodwards-i-75-overpass-may-be-widened-by-60-feet-for-new-retail "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 12, 20187 yr Midtown West developers hire '800-pound design gorilla' that did NYC's 9/11 memorial planning The developers behind the Midtown West project on the Wigle Recreation Center site in Detroit have lured a big fish to work on it: Studio Libeskind. Even if you don't know the company's name, you almost certainly know its work: The 16-acre 9/11 Museum & Memorial site in New York probably being the most well-known, among other large-scale efforts around the world. The company, headed by Daniel Libeskind, did the master planning for that project. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180209/blog016/652561/midtown-west-developers-hire-800-pound-design-gorilla-that-did-nycs "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 13, 20187 yr Columbia Street to Bring New Shopping and Dining to The District Detroit The District Detroit’s Columbia Street is set to be the city’s latest retail destination bringing new restaurants and shops to serve Tigers fans and many others west of Woodward between the historic Fox Theatre and the new, nine-story Little Caesars headquarters expansion. The block-long, pedestrian-friendly strip will have ten new storefronts in one of The District Detroit’s busiest areas. Columbia Street is bringing nearly 40,000 square feet of new retail and will feature a variety of dining options among several restaurants as well as a European-style promenade boasting Cobblestone paving, festoon lights and al fresco dining space. The first of the new retail tenants will open their doors this year. The progress in these developments comes as new milestones in The District Detroit are anticipated this year, including the opening of the Little Caesars headquarters and the new Mike Ilitch School of Business building at Wayne State University, made possible by a historic $40 million donation from the Ilitch family. More below: http://www.districtdetroit.com/news/columbia-street-brings-new-shopping-and-dining-to-the-district-detroit "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 13, 20187 yr Revival effort takes root on East Warren Joe Rashid has one goal, and that’s to bring life back to the streets of East Warren on the city’s east side. Rashid, the commercial co-chair for the East English Village Neighborhood Association, said the area — East Warren between Bedford and Guilford — needs support now more than ever with just less than 40 percent business occupancy in the community. “We are hoping to work with the community to bring business back to the area,” he explained. “Our goal is to create a community-driven, viable business corridor with businesses that cater to the community’s needs.” More below: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/02/09/east-warren-restoration-neighborhood-restorin-rashid/110275838/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 16, 20187 yr New shops, apartments on Detroit's edge expected to boost neighborhoods An $8.3 million apartment and retail project at Livernois and 7 Mile in Detroit where developers and dignitaries are set to ceremoniously break ground on Thursday is expected to give that neighborhood a big boost. Named 7.Liv, the project plans to refashion three dilapidated former stores — including the vacant B. Siegel department store — into 10 apartments and about 20,000 square feet of retail space. It is expected to take about 14 months to complete and be a retail anchor. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2018/02/15/shops-apartments-detroit-neighborhoods/328781002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 16, 20187 yr Boutique hotel with 100 rooms added to 640 Temple redevelopment plans The team planning to redevelop the former Standard Accident Insurance Co. building at 640 Temple St. in Detroit formerly owned by Wayne County now has a 100-room boutique hotel as part of its plans. The new project component is revealed in a brownfield redevelopment plan presented to Detroit City Council last week. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180215/news/653076/boutique-hotel-with-100-rooms-added-to-640-temple-redevelopment-plans "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 20187 yr Eastern Market site slated for 79 apartments headed to auction Developer Joey Jonna is asking a minimum bid of $600,000 for this site in Eastern Market in Detroit between Russell and Rivard streets. -2801 Russell St. minimum bid is $600,000 -Online auction runs April 9-11 -Site slated for 79 apartments, 15,500 square feet of commercial But Barry Swatsenbarg, senior vice president in the Southfield office of Colliers International Inc. who is one of the brokers handling the April 9-11 auction, said Jonna "received a tremendous amount of unsolicited offers to do the deal before he went vertical." "He felt compelled to take it to the market," Swatsenbarg said. "He thought the auction process was the best. And it's site plan-approved, so someone can just step right in and go vertical if they'd like." More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180215/news/653066/eastern-market-site-slated-for-79-apartments-headed-to-auction "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 20187 yr Planning to create Detroit cultural campus quietly underway ... Supported by a $60,000 grant from the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation to Midtown Detroit to lead it, the larger planning process will include a yet-to-be-announced design contest for the district and a dozen cultural and non-cultural sites within it and incorporate sustainability as a guiding principle. It builds on two individual projects announced last summer around the same time: a "town square" planning project launched by the DIA to activate its Woodward Avenue plaza as a public gathering space and a joint project to develop "green infrastructure," or natural landscaping, between the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Michigan Science Center to absorb stormwater runoff. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180218/news/653236/planning-to-create-detroit-cultural-campus-quietly-underway "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 20187 yr Could the redevelopment of the State Fairgrounds gain momentum this year? More below: https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/2/19/17011660/redevelopment-michigan-state-fairgrounds-momentum http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20170702/news/633036/plan-former-state-fairgrounds-site-gets-urban-vibe "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 20187 yr 76-unit housing development planned on Kercheval in West Village New construction is planned at 8003 Kercheval Ave. at Van Dyke, according to a document obtained from the city of Detroit through a Freedom of Information Act request in relation to the city's pitch for Amazon's second headquarters. The document says 76 units are planned. Retail offerings have grown in the east-side neighborhood of late. And the new residential project, dubbed "Van Dyke [/member] Kercheval," would join the recently opened, 12-unit The Coe mixed-use development just south on Coe Avenue. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180221/news/653496/76-unit-housing-development-planned-on-kercheval-in-west-village "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 20187 yr Affordable housing project planned along Gratiot The Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance is partnering with a low-income housing development company to build a new $8.3 million mixed-use building along Gratiot Avenue in an area of Detroit's east side that is outside of the city's targeted areas for revitalization. Bingham Farms-based MHT Housing Inc. and the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance recently broke ground on a 52,000-square-foot, four-story building at 9100 Gratiot Ave. to be called the Gratiot Central Commons that will have 36 affordable housing units and ground-floor retail space facing the street. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180218/news/653211/affordable-housing-project-planned-along-gratiot?ite=63476&ito=939&itq=0502eb8a-e6bb-435e-a500-6b552262ffe8&itx%5Bidio%5D=1259950 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 27, 20187 yr Downtown Detroit Partnership CEO eyes Cadillac Square for market As Dan Gilbert's real estate company prepares to break ground this year on a redevelopment of the Monroe Block, the Downtown Detroit Partnership is starting to contemplate new features to add to Cadillac Square. DDP CEO Eric Larson is interested in having Eastern Market establish a permanent marketplace building in Cadillac Square for weekday sales of fresh food and locally made products to downtown workers and residents. "That's a great use for the Cadillac Square," Larson said. "I personally think it would be really fun to get a summer market going in the downtown during the weekday, which doesn't compete with the weekend drive to [Eastern Market]..." Gilbert's Monroe Block development — bounded by Randolph Street, Bates Street, Cadillac Square and Monroe Avenue — is to include a 35-story building with 818,000 square feet, about 480 multifamily residential units and 170,000 square feet of retail space. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180225/news/653776/downtown-detroit-partnership-ceo-eyes-cadillac-square-for-market?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 1, 20187 yr A Food Hall and Restaurant Incubator Is Moving Into Downtown Detroit Detroit is getting another food hall and this time it’s heading to downtown. The Pittsburgh-based company Galley Group finalized a lease with Bedrock Real Estate this week to fill a 8,646-square-foot space inside downtown Detroit’s Federal Reserve Building at 160 W. Fort St. While food halls have emerged over the past several years as a growing trend in cities across the U.S., Galley Group’s founders Benjamin Mantica and Tyler Benson model their halls after tech incubators. Tested chefs and would-be restaurateurs from across the U.S. are invited to apply to open restaurants in Galley food hall spaces and are selected through a competitive vetting process. The applications for the four restaurant spaces at Detroit’s Galley are now open. Pitches must be submitted by May 1. More below: https://detroit.eater.com/2018/3/1/17065378/detroit-galley-group-food-hall-restaurants-opening-federal-reserve-building "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 11, 20187 yr the market huts look like the same ones used in the bryant park holiday bazaar in ny.
March 13, 20187 yr I love this 1942 photo of Detroit from @Shorpy. Note how the streetcar used to run in the center of Woodward, unlike the Qline which runs in the curb lanes. http://www.shorpy.com/node/197 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 13, 20187 yr the market huts look like the same ones used in the bryant park holiday bazaar in ny. Yup. Hope they work out.
March 19, 20187 yr HUGE news if true: Sources: Ford pursues deal to buy, redevelop Michigan Central Station Ford Motor Co. is in discussions to purchase the dilapidated Michigan Central Station in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood just outside of downtown, Crain's has learned from multiple sources familiar with the negotiations. The exact status of negotiations is unknown. But two sources familiar with the matter said a deal for the Dearborn-based automaker to redevelop the 500,000-square-foot former train station off of Michigan Avenue owned for decades by the Moroun family could come as soon as next month. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180319/news/655651/sources-ford-pursues-deal-to-buy-redevelop-michigan-central-station#utm_medium=email&utm_source=cdb-breakingnews&utm_campaign=cdb-breakingnews-20180319 “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
March 20, 20187 yr That would be AWESOME. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 20, 20187 yr I wonder how they are going to deal with the international tunnel behind the building. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 20, 20187 yr The road tunnel or the rail tunnel? Either way, neither one is right behind the building. Both are several blocks away. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 20, 20187 yr Wow, that would be amazing for Detroit. Even though I haven't ever visited Detroit city proper before, reading about Corktown and also the train station, if Ford fills this with 1,000 employees or more, that would have a massive catalytic effect on the surrounding Corktown area, no? It seems from what I read Corktown is an up and coming neighborhood but still a long ways away with a lot of gaps in the commercial district and tons of room for more housing in the surrounding area.
March 20, 20187 yr The road tunnel or the rail tunnel? Either way, neither one is right behind the building. Both are several blocks away. The rail tunnel. I'm just thinking since the property (will be) owned by Ford, I wonder how that whole rail-to-Canada in the back of their property will be handled. Hopefully Amtrak moves over there and gets back service to Toronto/Montreal. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 5, 20187 yr Sneak peek inside The Corner Ballpark at the old Tiger Stadium The corner of Michigan and Trumbull has a long, storied baseball history. It was first known as Bennett Park, then Navin Field in 1912. As capacity grew, the name changed to Briggs Stadium (where the Lions also played) in the 1930s, and then, of course, it became Tiger Stadium. The Tigers moved to Comerica Park in 2000 and the future of the stadium was unclear for years; demo started in 2008. For years, a volunteer group called the Navin Field Grounds Crew maintained the field, where eventually vintage baseball games were played again and visitors could stop by and bask in nostalgia. More below: https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/3/23/17154238/sneak-peek-the-corner-ballpark-old-tiger-stadium "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 5, 20187 yr Partially collapsed Grosfield Building to be renovated in $4 million mixed-use project The partially collapsed Grosfield Building in Southwest Detroit could be getting new life as 20 lofts and ground-floor retail or restaurant space. Detroit-based Warehouse Development, which specializes in historic renovations, is doing preliminary work and plans to redevelop four buildings at 3365 and 3363 Michigan Ave., just west of Corktown. The $4 million Grosfield Lofts project includes the three-story, red-brick Grosfield Building, which has a distinctive corner turret and dates back to at least 1893, and two other buildings along Michigan Avenue. The three total approximately 27,000 square feet. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180326/news/656266/partially-collapsed-grosfield-building-to-be-renovated-in-4-million?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social From this... ...to this! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 5, 20187 yr Downtown dream: Fouts touts plan for $125M development around Warren city hall Warren Mayor Jim Fouts isn't giving up on his long-held dream for a walkable downtown in the suburb just north of Detroit. Fouts has touted the idea repeatedly over the years, often during his annual state of the city address. This year was no exception. "Finally, I think we're gonna have a downtown," he said during his March 22 state of the city address, adding he hopes the walkable downtown will be a "destination place" for people from the metro Detroit area. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2018/04/02/downtown-warren-fouts-development/453402002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 5, 20187 yr DIA launches design competition for outdoor plaza, connections to cultural institutions How can the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) and Midtown Detroit Inc. utilize the DIA’s outdoor space? A design competition just launched hopes to find the right landscape and urban design teams to create a community space. The DIA and Midtown Inc. sent out requests for proposals for the DIA Plaza and Midtown Cultural Connections design competition. The proposals are due April 30. More below: https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/4/4/17194056/dia-create-town-square-midtown-design-competition "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 12, 20187 yr Co-living space, yoga studio and community garden planned in Detroit development Developers broke ground this week on a $29-million modern residential project in Detroit's Milwaukee Junction neighborhood near New Center. Baltimore Station 2, a 115,000-square-foot project at 66 E. Baltimore Ave. being developed by The Platform, is expected to be completed by summer 2019, with private and co-living apartments with access to communal spaces. More below: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2018/04/29m_apartments_to_offer_co-liv.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 17, 20187 yr New upscale West Elm Hotel coming to Midtown Detroit Detroit will soon gain another new upscale hotel. Furniture and home décor retailer West Elm plans to build a 130-plus room hotel at Woodward and Eliot Street in Midtown, next to the Bonstelle Theatre, on a lot that is now a parking lot. The project's developer, the Detroit-based Roxbury Group, announced the hotel plans Tuesday morning. Groundbreaking is expected later this year, with an opening date sometime in 2020. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/money/2018/04/17/west-elm-boutique-hotel-midtown-detroit/520985002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 30, 20187 yr While the NYT talks about Detroit "reviving," it's worth remembering that Detroit has lost an entire Orlando worth of population since 2000 alone. https://t.co/pVDMuXuOk0 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 30, 20187 yr While the NYT talks about Detroit "reviving," it's worth remembering that Detroit has lost an entire Orlando worth of population since 2000 alone. https://t.co/pVDMuXuOk0 Or an entire Toledo since 2000.
April 30, 20187 yr Downtown Detroit building transformed as Michigan company's new headquarters after vacant 20 years Michigan furniture and office design company MarxModa cut the ribbon on their new headquarters in Downtown Detroit's Olde Building at 751 Griswold, April 26, 2018. MarxModa is the former bank building's first tenet in nearly 20 years before purchased and renovated by Detroit-based real estate firm Basco. The Olde Building was built in 1924-25 by famed Detroit architect Albert Kahn. Its stone work is attributed to architectural sculptor Corrado Parducci. More below: http://www.mlive.com/expo/erry-2018/04/cc7cfcb2e11112/index.html#incart_m-rpt-2 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 30, 20187 yr Olympia Development proposes nearly $200 million in new office, retail developments in District Detroit More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180430/news/659411/olympia-development-proposes-nearly-200-million-in-new-office-retail?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 2, 20187 yr Detroit Zoo pushing to build huge aquarium in downtown Detroit The Detroit Zoo is actively pushing to construct a large aquarium on the downtown Detroit riverfront — possibly on prime vacant land next to Hart Plaza — that could draw 1 million visitors a year, the Free Press has learned. While the zoo, which is in Royal Oak, has floated the idea for a Detroit aquarium off and on for years, only to see it tank amid the recession and the city's bankruptcy, discussions have picked up in recent months, zoo Director and CEO Ron Kagan confirmed Tuesday. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2018/05/01/detroit-zoo-aquarium-downtown-detroit/569853002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 7, 20187 yr Royal Oak 'rethinks' downtown with city hall, parking, office tower plans If cities had growth spurts like teens, Royal Oak just entered middle school. After years of being a mostly one- and two-story “old-fashioned” downtown, with a 1950s feel like countless others nationwide, this one is gorging on new investment. And it’s growing like a weed, from short to mid-rise. Almost whichever way you turn in this former railroad town, there are mid-rise buildings or soon will be — condo towers, apartments, parking decks and offices, offices, offices. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2018/05/04/royal-oak-dowtown-development-city-hall/575607002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 9, 20187 yr What $30M project at old Tiger Stadium site means for Corktown The revitalization of Detroit's historic Corktown neighborhood took another step forward Tuesday with groundbreaking for "The Corner," a $30-million mixed-use project that will fill in the final piece of the old Tiger Stadium site. Headed by developer Eric Larson of Larson Realty Group, the mid-rise project will feature 111 rental apartments, including studio, one- and two-bedroom units, and about 26,000 square-feet of retail fronting Michigan Avenue at Trumbull. To comply with city wishes to keep Detroit affordable for longtime residents, plans call for 20% of the apartments to be leased at rates geared to renters whose incomes are no more than 80% of area median income. And 60% of the retail space will be leased at half the going market rate to small local retailers. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2018/05/08/corktown-detroit-tiger-stadium/589618002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 10, 20187 yr I see there's no one here keeping tabs on Dan Gilbert's The Hudson project, how's that turning out so far?
May 10, 20187 yr ^Base demolition for the construction is starting: "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 10, 20187 yr Oh, and this: "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 10, 20187 yr Seven-story building, mixed-use development proposed in Brush Park One new development still in the early stages is bringing up issues we could see in many neighborhood developments in the next few years. With the added need for density in the city—or going vertical as many are saying—how high is too high for the neighbors who’ve already invested in the neighborhoods? Developers purchased the land at John R and Edmund Place years ago, and have been working with the neighborhood and the city on the new development. The mixed-use development includes three buildings, with one currently proposed at seven stories. More below: https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/5/9/17335748/seven-story-building-proposed-brush-park 112 Edmund 2827 John R 105 Alfred "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 13, 20187 yr 70 new and rehabbed homes coming to the North End, Grandmont-Rosedale Ground breaks today on a new project that will bring for-sale homes to two Detroit neighborhoods. Develop Detroit—along with The Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation. JPMorgan Chase, and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation—is leading a project to rehab current homes and build new homes in the North End and Grandmont-Rosedale. The first phase of the project will see the construction of 12 new homes in the North End, seven rehabbed homes in the North End, and 11 rehabbed homes in Grandmont-Rosedale. Develop Detroit has plans to add up to 40 homes in phase 2 of this program, representing up to 70 homes total. More below: https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/5/10/17338986/70-new-rehabbed-homes-coming-to-the-north-end-grandmont-rosedale "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 14, 20187 yr Retail, residential plan targets Asian population Oakland County's Novi area is home to the largest Japanese population in Michigan, and as a whole, the state is home to the second-largest Japanese population in the Midwest. But up until now, there hasn't been a dedicated retail, restaurant and entertainment area for Japanese and other Asian populations. ... The city of Novi last week approved the $3.15 million sale of just less than 10 acres of land it assembled for the project to Sakura Novi LLC, an affiliate of Birmingham-based developer Robert B. Aikens & Associates LLC. The deal is contingent on creation of a brownfield plan and approval of a Planned Rezoning Overlay plan from the city. The area slated for the "Asian Village" project is bounded by Grand River Avenue to the south, Town Center Drive to the west and 11 Mile Road to the north. Only a few miles from Novi's Twelve Oaks Mall, the site is zoned for office, service, commercial and light industrial. Anchored by a new market/food hall concept by One World Market, the pocket Asian Village will span about 15 acres and include 75,000 square feet of lifestyle retail, with lifestyle services, such as exercise facilities and salons and soft goods stores, Japanese, Korean and Chinese restaurants and entertainment such as a Japanese karaoke bar. Apartments and townhomes and possibly 15,000 square feet of office space are also part of the project. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180513/news/660581/retail-residential-plan-targets-asian-population "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 23, 20187 yr Dan Gilbert gets state OK for $618M in tax breaks for Detroit projects As fully expected, the Michigan Strategic Fund on Tuesday approved $618 million in tax incentives to help businessman Dan Gilbert build four of his major projects in downtown Detroit. Gilbert's total investment is estimated at $2.15 billion, so the tax incentives approved Tuesday will nominally cover about 29% of his costs. However, since the tax incentives are spread out over 30 years, the actual value of the incentives will be about 15% of the project costs. The projects are expected to create 7,261 permanent jobs and add up to 3.1 million square feet of new office, retail, residential, hotel and civic space to the downtown core. More below: https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2018/05/22/dan-gilbert-detroit-projects-tax-breaks/630257002/ Hudson Block update: Monroe Blocks update: "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 25, 20187 yr Shapero Hall in Lafayette Park to be razed for 374 new residential units A long-vacant former Wayne State University pharmacy school in Detroit's Lafayette Park neighborhood is expected to be razed as part of a plan to redevelop the 5.2 acres on which the building sits. "That bad boy is coming down," Amin Irving, the 374-unit project's developer, told a crowd of more than 100 Thursday night during a community meeting for Lafayette Park residents to be briefed on Irving's plan and those of four other developers working on projects in and around the neighborhood. Some in attendance cheered when Irving told them of his plans to demolish the 151,000-square-foot Shapero Hall building owned by Detroit real estate investor Dennis Kefallinos. More below: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180525/news/661756/shapero-hall-in-lafayette-park-to-be-razed-for-374-new-residential Current building: "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 25, 20187 yr This is what $5.1 billion in Detroit building construction looks like Michigan's tallest skyscraper Bedrock broke ground on what will be Michigan's tallest building at the site of the former Hudson's department store in the heart of Downtown Detroit on Woodward Ave. on Dec. 14, 2017. Foundation work ramped up this spring. The planned 800-foot tall, 58-story tower will include 330-450 residential units and a public skydeck with unmatched views of the city. An adjacent 12-story building will include a ground-floor market, shops, attractions, exhibitions, conference and collaborative work spaces. The $1 billion, 1.1 million-square-foot development is estimated to be completed in 2022. The Shinola Hotel at 1400 Woodward Ave. in Downtown Detroit will feature 130 rooms with 16,000-square-feet of retail space and should be completed by fall 2018. It's being built in a partnership between Bedrock - the real estate firm of Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, and Shinola, a luxury watch manufacturer. The new nine-story, $150-million Little Caesars headquarters in Downtown Detroit is expected to be completed this year on Woodward Avenue, just south of the new Red Wings arena. Olympia Development announced on April 30 a $200-million plan to create more than 400,000 square feet of office space and about 70,000 square feet of street-level retail. Building renovations include: (left) The proposed transformation of 2210 Park Ave. to create 32,000 square feet of office space and 6,000 square feet of retail, a $17-million project. (center) The renovation of 1922 Cass Ave. to feature 6,000 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of retail space, a $23-million project. (right) The restoration of 2110 Park Ave. to create 47,000 square feet of office space and 10,000 square feet of retail, a $25 million project. The Book Tower and Book Building The Book Building and Book Tower on Washington Boulevard are undergoing a $313 million rehabilitation. The 38-story Book Tower and 13-story Book Building were purchased in 2015 by Dan Gilbert's real estate firm Bedrock. Restoration of the 1917 and 1926 buildings will include 95 residential units, 180,000-square-feet of retail and office space and a hotel. An adjoining 2-story structure is expected to be demolished to make room for a 12-story parking garage. David Stott Building The David Stott Building in Capitol Park is also undergoing renovation by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock. The Siren Hotel, built inside Downtown Detroit's 1926-built Wurlitzer Building, 1509 Broadway St., is expected to open this year. The 106-room hotel will have seven food and beverage spaces, two retail shops and rooftop access with views of the city's skyline. The $32 million redevelopment of the long-vacant Metropolitan Building in Downtown Detroit kicked off Aug. 29, 2017 inside the once stately building as developers Roxbury Group and Means Group lit up a 13-foot tree that once grew on the building's rooftop. City Club Apartments broke ground Jan. 11, 2018 at the former Statler Hotel site on Grand Circus Park in Downtown Detroit. The apartments will include 288 units with 20 percent reserved as affordable, a gourmet market, pet store, restaurant with outdoor dining space and an indoor/outdoor pool for residents. The proposed Monroe Blocks, another Bedrock project, will include a 35-story, 818,000-square-foot office tower, along with 482 residential units, 170,000 square feet of retail and public spaces throughout. Former Detroit Free Press building Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert acquired the former Free Press building in January 2017. The building is currently under renovation with plans for redevelopment including retail, residential and office space. Wayne County has reached an agreement with Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert to build a new criminal justice complex, with plans to demolish an unfinished jail project on Gratiot Avenue downtown, and transfer that site to Gilbert. Failed jail site Gilbert proposes a major mixed-use project at the Gratiot Avenue site of the failed jail project in Greektown. He originally sought the downtown site for a soccer stadium, but has since reached a deal with Ford Field should Detroit be chosen for a Major League Soccer expansion team The Leland, a 1927 building at 400 Bagley Ave in Downtown Detroit, will undergo a $120 million transformation into 339 units of market rate and affordable apartments. The Wayne State University Mike Ilitch School of Business is expected to be completed this spring. The $50 million project near Little Caesars Arena on Woodward Avenue will feature roughly 120,000 square feet of academic space with a finance and data analytics lab, an executive M.B.A. suite, a two-story atrium and space for a cafe and pop-up retail and the 260-seat Lear Auditorium. Three new buildings are proposed by Olympia Development north of I-75 near Little Caesars Arena: (left) A $65-million mixed-use development at 2715 Woodward Ave. to include 110,000 square feet of office space and 17,000 square feet of retail. (center) A proposed office and retail space at 120 Henry. St., a $48-million project. This will include 100,000 square feet of offices and 20,000 square feet of retail. (right) A proposed office, retail and parking development at 111 Henry St. to feature 50,000 square feet of offices and 7,000 square feet of retail, a $20-million project. City Modern in Detroit's historic Brush Park neighborhood will feature over 400 residential units, including historic homes, townhomes, carriage homes, duplettes and flats with one parking spot per unit. West Riverfront Park New York-based design firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates have been selected as the winning firm of an international design competition to transform Detroit's West Riverfront Park. Ford and Corktown Ford announced in December 2017 it would move 220-plus autonomous, EV employees to "The Factory," a building at 1907 Michigan Ave., on the corner of Rosa Parks Blvd. in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, seen here March 19, 2018. Ford plans to continue to expand its presence in Detroit after moving into its refurbished Corktown building later this year, and insiders believe that could mean new life for the long-vacant Michigan Central Station, seen here March 19, 2018. Elton Park, a $150 million, multiphase mixed-use development project by Detroit-based Soave Enterprises in Detroit's Corktown, broke ground on May 8, 2017. Phase one of the project will add 151 residential units and 13,391 square feet in retail space over 5 blocks. Five new buildings will be constructed, along with the complete renovation of the historic Checker Cab building into residential and commercial space. West Elm Hotel Detroit-based real estate development company Roxbury Group has partnered with West Elm Hotels to build a new hotel on Woodward Avenue at Elliot Street in Detroit's Midtown. The developer hopes to the new hotel open by 2020. A development project was announced in April of 2017 on a 7-acre piece of property just south of Mack Avenue. between Woodward Avenue and John R in Detroit's Cass Corridor, or Midtown neighborhood. The project, known as South of Mack Avenue (SOMA), will include two existing buildings and two new office buildings on Woodward Avenue along with at least one parking structure and retail space. The developer, Birmingham-based Professional Property Management Co. of Michigan, has express interest in trying to lure a Target store to the site. Selden Corridor Initiative Two new food and entertainment developments are part of a sprawling, mixed-use, $20-million Midtown project on the Selden Street corridor. New York-based Barcade will occupy about 5,500 square feet inside a building at 666 Selden St. as the chain's largest location, according to owner Paul Kermizian. Next door, at the 644 Selden St., Jon Carlson, owner of popular Michigan restaurant chain Jolly Pumpkin, plans to open "North Cookshop," a northern Michigan-inspired eatery Midtown West A 7-acre vacant lot owned by the city will be transformed into 'Midtown West,' a $77 million plan for 335 residential units and 8,000-square-feet of retail space with one acre of public space off the John C. Lodge Service Drive, between Selden and Brainard streets. Sugar Hill Historic District The Sugar Hill Historic District in Midtown is expected to include 84 new studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, with 25 percent affordable unit Wayne State University approved $65 million for The Hilberry Gateway Performance Complex, a project to renovate and expand the university's Hilberry Theatre for theatre, music, dance and arts-related events, seen here March 27, 2018. Phase I of construction on Wayne State University's 11-story Anthony Wayne Drive Apartments is underway and will be completed by fall 2018. Baltimore Station 1 Baltimore Station will connect two existing vacant storefront buildings along Woodward Ave. in Detroit's New Center commercial district. The mixed-use residential and retail will be completed in summer 2018 by Detroit-based The Platform. Baltimore Station 2 The Platform broke ground in April on Baltimore Station 2, at 66 E. Baltimore Ave., in Detroit's Milwaukee Junction neighborhood near New Center. The $29 million, 115,000-square-foot residential development will feature ground floor retail, private, co-living apartments and communal spaces with a gym, yoga studio, community garden, rooftop deck and valet parking. Midtown Detroit, Inc. is investing $7.5 million in the New Center Commercial Historic District. The Woodward Grand building, seen here in January of 2017, will include 10,000-square-foot of retail space, 10,000 square feet of offices and 10 units of housing. It will also include a new restaurant from the founder of Rose's Fine Foods. Cass and York is a planned six-story, 53-unit condominium development in the New Amsterdam Historic District, also known as TechTown, which will include 3,621 square feet of ground-floor retail, an outdoor plaza and an attached, 550-space parking garage. Detroit Pistons practice facility The Detroit Pistons and Henry Ford Health Systems last year announced plans to build a new training, rehabilitation and sports medicine complex in Detroit's New Center area. Construction has begun on the 100,000-square foot facility on what was previously a Henry Ford Health parking lot between Second and Third St. along Amsterdam Street. The Henry Ford Hospital Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion The Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion will be a six-story 187,000-square-foot center for cancer care and research. The West Grand Boulevard building will be stand opposite Henry Ford Hospital and is expected to be complete by 2020. Motown Museum's $50 million expansion is expected to be begin soon. The project will include a large addition, along with renovation of the existing museum and three surrounding houses. A donor-led fundraising campaign has helped raise money for the project. Third and Grand, expected to open in summer 2018, will feature 231 residential units in Detroit's New Center. Amenities will include a 24-hour staffed lobby, health and fitness center, clubroom, rooftop deck with a pool overlooking Detroit's skyline and a courtyard. The building will also feature 13,621 square feet of ground-floor retail, an outdoor plaza and a 550-space parking garage. Islandview Prolific development group The Platform has a project in the works in the up-and-coming Islandview neighborhood, focused on one block just north of the Belle Isle bridge on East Grand Boulevard, between East Jefferson Avenue and East Congress Street. The group entered into an agreement with the Detroit Land Bank in March 2017 to acquire five parcels in the area, with plans to renovate three historic properties, including a 1898-built building at 103 E. Grand Blvd., designed by Louis Kamper, who also designed the historic Book-Cadillac Hotel and Book Tower. The group also purchased a former Big Boy restaurant at the corner of East Jefferson Avenue and East Grand Boulevard. An $8.6-million mixed-use development called 7.Liv broke ground in February at 7 Mile Road and Livernois Avenue. Commercial space and residential units are planned for the building in Detroit's historic "Avenue of Fashion." Flex-N-Gate Also under development, automotive supplier Flex-N-Gate's new $95-million, 30-acre facility under construction at an I-94 industrial park near Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport. The facility is expected to be open by October with plans to hire over 400 workers. More below: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2018/05/2018_developments.html#incart_m-rpt-2 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 25, 20187 yr This is what $5.1 billion in Detroit building construction looks like I believe the technical term for that is a shit-ton of construction.
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