DETROIT | Development & Construction: Motown Lowdown

[jmcilreavy]

Originally Posted by jmcilreavy

Went by the Brush and Watson site this morning. Heavy equipment has arrived. I reached out to OOMBRA Architects, who designed the buildings, for more information on time line.

Just want to follow up. Architect replied saying work is beginning on underground parking. That is expected to go on for 10 months before going vertical. Work should be completed in 2022. This project will have a 4 story, 5 story and 10 story buildings.

[DetroitSky]

Originally Posted by cityslickerrr

UM has budget holes up the wazoo and cancelled far more important projects already. Please point us to the financing you speak of for the $300M. This was announced a year ago in Oct. 2019, not a word since. Flashy renderings, nothing happens. Many such cases. District Detroit, MLS Stadium District, Monroe Blocks, on and on.

Construction on the innovation center isn't supposed to begin until next year, and there's been no direct indication it won't be built. There's also dozens of articles mentioning the project released in the past year. I guess you didn't search very much.

An article from the initial October 30 announcement stating construction isn't planned to begin until 2021:

The site will be anchored by a 190,000 square foot research and education center. In addition to the academic portion of the building, the 14-acre site will also feature residential units, a hotel, a conference center and a business collaboration and incubation space. Production is slated to begin in 2021.

An article from August 22:

Additionally, the planned $300 million University of Michigan "Innovation Center" along Gratiot, at the former site of the "failed" Wayne County jail project, remains on pace for construction start in 2021, according to a spokesman for its lead developer The Related Cos.

From February 17, 2020:

The University of Michigan recently appointed a new faculty committee to create master’s degree and certificate programs that will be available at the planned Detroit Center for Innovation.

From February 22, 2020:

ANN ARBOR, MI — Philanthropist and chairman of Related Companies Stephen M. Ross has announced a $100-million gift to launch the fundraising campaign to advance construction of the Detroit Center for Innovation.

The center will also be made possible by a significant contribution of land by Dan Gilbert, according to a news release issued Friday, Feb. 21.

If you're going to join a forum specifically to argue with other forumers please know all the facts before you make your statements.

[CrazyCres]

Originally Posted by jmcilreavy

Just want to follow up. Architect replied saying work is beginning on underground parking. That is expected to go on for 10 months before going vertical. Work should be completed in 2022. This project will have a 4 story, 5 story and 10 story buildings.

Thank you for the info

Nice to see more density in Brush park and right next to city modern.

[davidberko]

Originally Posted by jmcilreavy

Just want to follow up. Architect replied saying work is beginning on underground parking. That is expected to go on for 10 months before going vertical. Work should be completed in 2022. This project will have a 4 story, 5 story and 10 story buildings.

That's amazing. Such good news

[DetroitSky]

Detroit Neighborhood Named Among Best Areas for U.S. Housing Developers

The North End/New Center part of Detroit was named an area with some of the most attractive opportunities in the U.S. for housing developers to take advantage of federal reinvestment tax benefits.

The largest and most active developer in the New Center area is Detroit-based The Platform, led by Peter Cummings. The company owns and is renovating the Fisher Building, and late last year opened The Boulevard, a six-story, 356,000-square-foot, mixed-use development on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and West Grand Boulevard. Other projects are in the works across the city, as well.

Arts space and mini-market planned for two vacant lots in Southwest Detroit

After two decades of sitting empty, two vacant lots adjacent to Detroit’s Clark Park are on the cusp of becoming community assets.

Located at the corner of Bagley Street and Scotten Avenue sit two vacant lots. A crowdfunding campaign and complementing matching grant could change that as a neighboring nonprofit has launched a partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to bring their ideas for change to fruition.

We Are Culture Creators, a nonprofit that offers arts and entrepreneurship programming for young men of color in Detroit, seeks to transform the vacant lots into La Esquina, a mini-market and arts space next to their headquarters on Bagley Street.

The organization has partnered with the MEDC to make it happen. We Are Culture Creators has entered into the Public Spaces Community Places program, a placemaking initiative from the MEDC.

New Autonomous Shuttle Connects Detroit Seniors with Local Hospital

For the first time, a self-driving, accessible, paratransit shuttle is being deployed to transport senior citizens and the underserved to and from appointments and other needs at a Detroit hospital.

The deployment — a partnership between Navya, NextEnergy, Bestmile, Flagstar Bank, IXR Mobility, and AARP, as well as DTE, and Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification PlanetM — will enhance accessibility for residents of two communities, Brush Park Manor Senior Center and Brewster Homes.

[Warrenite84]

My Dad used to work at the Cadillac Stamping Plant also known as the Conner Stamping Plant. He worked in the Fire Department and Plant Security there, Fleetwood Assembly, and Clark Avenue Assembly. He worked for Cadillac for 35 years and knew every inch of that place. I'm sure he will be bummed a little when I tell him they're tearing it down.

[chjbolton]

Hey guys, how's that new tallest Hudson tower coming along?

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by chjbolton

Hey guys, how's that new tallest Hudson tower coming along?

there's a dedicated construction thread for that project.

link: DETROIT | Hudson Tower & Block | 680 FT | 49 FLOORS

[uaarkson]

Originally Posted by cityslickerrr

UM is confronting a $1 billion budget shortfall, just punted their money-printing new hospital, the athletic dept might be $100M in the red, and you think they care about an unfunded Detroit vanity project?

Pre-COVID puff pieces mean little. Palm Beach billionaire allegedly put up 1/3rd (pre-COVID) where's the other $200+ million coming from? I'm not sure what you're expecting from bottom rung Detroit media. Detroit has 100 examples of flashy renderings never happening in the last 10 years that they never follow up on. Detroit media is in the business of manufacturing Detroit hype, not detailing bleak realities.

Lmao dude you're such a bummer. Go away.

[subterranean]

Anyone know what’s been happening over at the old Packard site?

[The North One]

Why is this troll still here? Obviously it came to harass people in the Detroit threads. Please get rid of it.

[DetroitSky]

Originally Posted by The North One

Why is this troll still here? Obviously it came to harass people in the Detroit threads. Please get rid of it.

Been wondering this too.

BorgWarner and California Accelerator to Partner in Detroit Incubator

BorgWarner Inc., a large auto supplier in Auburn Hills, is partnering with a California-based startup accelerator and the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council (MMSDC) to open an incubator location in Detroit.

Plug and Play, a global innovation platform and accelerator ecosystem for startup companies based in the Silicon Valley, matches startup companies with relevant companies and investors for three-month programs.

The location and timing of the facility’s opening were not announced.

A user on the Facebook group Historical Detroit Area Architecture posted an update photo of the Obama Building today:



I also recently came across these renderings of The Leland's renovation. A garage filling the rest of the block was planned when originally announced. These renderings show some residential and retail included in the garage.

[pablospotatos]

Originally Posted by The North One

Why is this troll still here? Obviously it came to harass people in the Detroit threads. Please get rid of it.

Seriously. We don't need this site turning into another DYes, where I'm sure it is or has been a troll as well.

[uaarkson]

Yes, we get it. Enough already.

[The North One]

Originally Posted by pablospotatos

Seriously. We don't need this site turning into another DYes, where I'm sure it is or has been a troll as well.

This is the same troll Detroityes banned, I know that for a fact at least since he literally talked about this site there.

So even Detroityes has better standards than Skyscraperpage, that's sad lol.

Also the Obama building looks fantastic.

[DetroitSky]

The mural on the side of Chroma, being renovated by The Platform in Milwaukee Junction, was damaged by repairs during renovations and replaced with a new mural:

Gallery: See How Detroit Artist Sydney G. James Creates 'The Girl With The D Earring'

Detroit's newest mural puts a dramatic face, literally, on a renovated building in the Milwaukee Junction area east of New Center.

"The Girl with the D Earring," as Sydney G. James titles the nine-story work finished Monday, is a take on Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s best-known canvas – "Girl with a Pearl Earring," created in 1665. In addition to an Old English "D" left ear decoration, the local version has signs and logos of historic North End and Paradise Valley businesses such as Angie's barber shop, Apex Bar on Oakland Avenue and Red's Jazz Shoe Shine Parlor, founded by Willie D. Thomas in 1949 on Oakland.

Old mural on the left


The nearly completed new mural

Chroma is set to open in November.




Photos from here.

Two doors east of Chroma, Oak & Reel is opening in a fully renovated building this Friday:

Gallery: Oak & Reel Starts Serving Italian-Style Seafood This Week In Detroit's North End

A culinary star trades a 15-year New York City career to open a restaurant in the region of his childhood. Chef Jared Gadbaw, raised in Garden City, opens Oak & Reel this coming weekend in the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood east of New Center.

He describes it as "a contemporary Italian restaurant with a primary focus on seafood, ... combining local ingredients with seafood not only from our Great Lakes but also from waters throughout the world." Pasta is handmade at the East Grand Boulevard newcomer.

Detroit's first indoor climbing gym coming to Eastern Market

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Indoor rock climbing has continued to grow throughout the United States, and the first indoor climbing gym in the City of Detroit is expected to open later this year in Eastern Market.

Dino Ruggeri, 31, from Grosse Pointe, said DYNO Climbing and Fitness is expected to open in November. It will be located at 1840 Mack Ave. near Orleans and the Dequindre Cut in the north end of Eastern Market.

[seabee1526]

Does anyone know what the book building parking garage details are? Scuttlebutt is the red tower cranes staged at the Monroe Blocks site is for the garage.

[DetroitSky]

Originally Posted by seabee1526

Does anyone know what the book building parking garage details are? Scuttlebutt is the red tower cranes staged at the Monroe Blocks site is for the garage.

I believe all that's been announced is that it'll be in the 10-12 story range and will incorporate the 2 story building on site. The first two floors of the garage will have retail space.

American/French Bistro Slated for Downtown Detroit

A new American and French bistro and market is slated to open in January in the City Club Apartments in downtown Detroit.

The Warren-based Joe Vicari Restaurant Group has announced The Statler Bistro, the newest addition to its restaurant portfolio. This will be the 22nd restaurant under the ownership of the group, which includes Andiamo and Joe Muer Seafood.

The new restaurant will occupy half of the first floor of the apartment building and be located on the corner of Washington Boulevard and Park Avenue on the former site of the historic Statler Hotel.

The bistro will offer 175 seats, and the décor will have a European feel. Indoor and outdoor seating will be available, and the menu will feature American and French cuisine. The market, a new concept for the restaurant group, will offer groceries and packaged meals.

Wayne State Physician Group Rebrands, Opens Medical Facility in Midtown

The new center, called 400 Mack Detroit Health Center (400 Mack Avenue, south side of Mack between Brush and St. Antoine streets), will offer primary and preventive health services including internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, and behavioral health. Another WSU partner organization, Wayne Pediatrics, is co-locating clinical services for children at the location, offering care across the lifecycle at the new 50,000-square-foot facility.

[SperamusMeliora]

Originally Posted by DetroitSky

I believe all that's been announced is that it'll be in the 10-12 story range and will incorporate the 2 story building on site. The first two floors of the garage will have retail space.

As of this past March, the HDC has not yet approved a plan for 1201 Washington, but the 1249 - 1265 Washington Blvd General Rehab -- Staff Report - Book Development they put out shows detail of the proposed modifications of the Book Building/Tower.

[DetroitSky]

Originally Posted by SperamusMeliora

As of this past March, the HDC has not yet approved a plan for 1201 Washington, but the 1249 - 1265 Washington Blvd General Rehab -- Staff Report - Book Development they put out shows detail of the proposed modifications of the Book Building/Tower.

Thanks for posting that! Tons of interesting new information there.

This document from 2017 has a conceptual massing of the garage on page 57.