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Posted Sep 25, 2019, 10:33 PM
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$6.6M mixed-use building with artistic theme planned for Woodbridge
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Two Detroiters—one a gallery owner and another who cut his teeth in New York City finance—are planning a $6.6 million mixed-use development on Grand River Avenue at the edge of Woodbridge. Called the Osi Art Apartments @ West End, plans for the development were revealed in public records submitted to the city’s Brownfield Redevelopment Authority earlier this month.
Plans for the over 26,000-square-foot Osi Art Apartments currently call for around 30 apartment units and ground floor retail, as well as parking behind the building. The site, which was purchased in May this year, is currently vacant and sits next to the Patterson Dog and Cat Hospital between Avery and Commonwealth streets.
Roderick Hardamon, founder URGE Development Group and one of the project’s partners, says he expects at least 50 percent of the units to be available to tenants who make 80 percent of the area median income (around $42,000 per year).
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Random fact: Patterson Dog and Cat Hospital, founded in 1844, is the oldest small business in Detroit and the oldest veterinary practice in the US.
Preservation of Ossian Sweet home underway
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Nearly 100 years after Dr. Ossian Sweet defended his home from a white mob, it’s set to be preserved for hopefully another century.
In August last year, the city of Detroit was awarded $500,000 from the African-American Civil Rights program of the Historic Preservation Fund, the National Park Service, and the Department of the Interior to turn it into a permanent visitation site.
Now, restoration work is underway on the home at 2905 Garland Street, as well as two across the street, on Detroit’s east side. According to the Detroit News, local restoration artists are upgrading essential features of the home—woodwork, painting, electrical and plumbing systems—as well as prepping the house for historic preservation.
Eventually, the basement will be turned into an interactive museum with information about the 1925 attack and trial.
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Auto parts maker Faurecia to invest $10.7M in Highland Park, create 500 jobs
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Officials say auto parts maker Faurecia is planning to invest $10.7 million and create 500 jobs in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park.
The planned investment was announced Tuesday as the Michigan Economic Development Corp. said the company is expected to get a $2 million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant. Plans call for workers to assemble automotive seats, seat frames, foam cushions and seat covers.
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Nonprofit developer, neighborhood group to rehab buildings in Detroit's Woodbridge
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Cinnaire purchased the three-story building, built in the 1920s, from the Presbytery of Detroit for $330,000 in January. Its days as a bank predate Napier, who remembers taking her kids there for dance, acting and other extracurricular activities. Most recently, it was home to the nonprofit Barnabas Project, which moved out around five years ago and left unclaimed items such as golf clubs and old computers to collect dust.
Cinnaire is planning to invest nearly $1 million to renovate the building for a commercial tenant on the first floor and flexible office space on the upper two levels, said Ed Potas, development manager for Cinnaire. The neighborhood group is pitching in a big chunk of the $150,000 Kresge Foundation grant it was awarded in June for some cleanup and community engagement.
The partnership between the Woodbridge group and Cinnaire started in 2017 when the developer gave it a construction loan to renovate a house in the area. If all goes well with the bank building, the groups would like to continue elevating their work together with the revitalization of a ramshackle 18,000-square-foot former elementary school and nearby 8 acres of vacant land in the neighborhood.
Cinnaire bought the school building at 1780 W. Hancock St. from private owner Blair Evans for $1.7 million, according to city property records, along with acreage at West Forest Avenue and Rosa Parks Boulevard. Potas said that project is still being budgeted and presents bigger challenges due to the condition of the building.
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Former bank at 3530 Grand River
Cuban-Influenced Burger Favorite Frita Batidos Opens Next Week in Detroit
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After more than four years of anticipation and many delays, Ann Arbor’s Cuban-influenced burger favorite Frita Batidos is scheduled to open the doors at its second restaurant in Detroit next week. Chef Eve Aronoff confirms to Eater that the restaurant will debut on on Wednesday, October 2 along the new pedestrian-friendly Columbia Street promenade in downtown Detroit near the Fox Theatre. Several invitation-only previews are scheduled for this weekend.
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The Corner at Former Tiger Stadium Site in Detroit Opens
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The Corner, a $31 million mixed-use development at the site of the former Tiger Stadium at Michigan and Trumbull avenues in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, opened yesterday.
It features 111 multifamily units of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, with 20 percent designated affordable at 80 percent of area median income.
The four-story building also will include 27,000 square feet of ground-level retail space, 60 percent of which will be at 50 percent of market rental rates. The first wave of businesses includes BUILD Institute, Plum Health, Skinphorea, and Vivid Space Yoga. There are three retail spots left.
The project also created more than 400 jobs, 50 percent of which went to Detroit residents. At least 121 of the 237 construction jobs and at least 90 of the 150 permanent jobs went to low-income people.
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