DETROIT: Brush Park City Modern
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A little history on Brush Park.
In a modern sense, it started as a suburb of mansions on what then was the outskirts of a small rural Detroit. Residents were often wealthy businessmen and their families of the Victorian era. As the city grew and modernized, Brush Park became seedy and dilapidated. Even by the 1950s, Brush Park had already became a skid row. Today, only a handful of mansions are left standing and even fewer that are in any rehabilitated condition. Though that may all change very soon. http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psb3ekpsk4.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psgal7c4gc.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps7u6oapsj.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psaf1fsgqx.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psj0olrhxo.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psy8zq9n60.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps1f3nywxh.jpg http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...llis/76472086/ |
Wow, this is really pretty cool. The density and contemporary design remind me of something you'd see in Philly. I love the New York-esque planning with multi-family buildings on John R and Brush, and smaller homes on the side streets. Plus the mid-block pedestrian walk is pretty nice, and the woonerf design for the alleys.
From a real estate perspective - not sure this development will work. If I'm in the market for a home, why would I pay a new-construction premium to get a townhouse or mews house with literally no yard when I could buy an actual detached house with a decent sized backyard for the same price, and maybe even the opportunity to buy vacant lots next door? Of course, urban Detroit is a strange and uncharted real estate market. Maybe the market doesn't place a premium on breathing room in a city with so much open space, and yawning wide open streets. Maybe the contemporary design and location will lure wealthier buyers that would have bought in the suburbs otherwise. :shrug: University/hospital employees, downtown workers, hell, even younger buyers with suburban jobs that don't want to live on a cul-de-sac. So far, that formula has worked for rental developments in Detroit where people expect to live for a certain phase of life. But a for-sale development, which I assume the townhouses will be, requires a whole different strategy. You have to sell buyers on the long-term value, and those buyers have to somehow get financing for the purchase from banks that are probably reluctant to lend in a highly distressed area such as this. I'm not saying these will doom the project, but I would love to see how the development team is planning to work around these challenges... |
It's really great to see Detroit rebuilding its neighborhoods. It wouldve been nice to see more victorian influence in the new constructions or atleast something up to par with what use to be there, architecturally speaking. Building what resembles shipping containers would be my last option. But it's better than nothing.
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Anyway, the problem is more in the outer neighborhoods that receive the bulk of the crime and retain most of the blight that isn't really seeing investment and appreciation but the blight removal project which is funded by the federal government is helping. The truth is a lot of the surrounding neighborhoods may have to return to rural land, there are projects in motion for Apple Orchards, Greenhouses, etc. for those areas that are too far gone and were only filled with generic detached homes in the first place. |
Today was the official groundbreaking.
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This deserves some dancing Bananas if you ask me!
:banana::dancing::awesome: Cucumber for good measure :cucumber: |
Very cool development. Build it!
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Lot of dirt being moved and lots being prepped. Picture from last weekend.
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The condos won't start construction until May, but more than a dozen units are already sold. Surprising confidence for the city of Detroit. As expected, many of the buyers are downtown workers.
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Since the townhomes and carriage homes are the first to be sold, here's some more renderings of those homes.
Townhomes. http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...pswtogjaa2.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psglz6e0hp.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps6nsgogkm.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...pscse9nije.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psfnzhegdy.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psyrfiazco.png Renderings from Studio Dwell. Carriage Homes. http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psu6zbnas7.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...pswa5jn0z5.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...pskr4pmukq.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psakyu7j9x.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/s...psa3s2y2co.png Renderings from Merge Architects. |
Hopefully the demand keeps pace and there will be blocks and blocks more of this. I love the density and variety of design.
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Wow I just stumbled across this and it is inspiring to see historic homes mixed with modern designs. I love these kind of developments that mix old with new. This is a project with watching!
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April 23, 2017.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2845/3...447400ca_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4167/3...1233d18c_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2941/3...bf7fd691_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4165/3...a7e6b859_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4158/3...c40a0da1_b.jpg I don't know if the foundations were cleared out when they demolished the mansions that used to sit here. There's a lot of pieces of bricks and stones and I don't think they're from any of the standing mansions and it almost look like a slab in the dirt. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2823/3...b930b0a0_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2815/3...d76f5df0_b.jpg |
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So cool to see this moving forward.
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Thanks for that. I kept saying I was going to reupload and repost the pictures but I've been too lazy to do it.
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