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Old Posted Jul 23, 2020, 4:14 AM
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According his earlier interview with Crain's, Robert Platt has been in talks with the owners of the SOMA land for a while. So if this rendering is coming out now then things are probably pretty close to making this reality.

Also this is a copy/paste of City Clubs apartments in Minneapolis.
Personally, not a fan of the colors for the Detroit proposal but this is very likely what it'll look like completed.


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I'm confused on whether or not this will take the place of the SOMA office space or not? The signs are still up and the leasing is still live online, and it seems that there is enough room for at least a little office space. I hope they don't get rid of it completely because I would love to see some more office space making it's way up Woodward. Especially for business' that can't afford the CBD prices but want to be in the city.
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I will say that a lot of us were worried that the Minneapolis project would look cheap, but with the lighting and staggered balconies it's a pretty nice looking project.
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I'm confused on whether or not this will take the place of the SOMA office space or not? The signs are still up and the leasing is still live online, and it seems that there is enough room for at least a little office space. I hope they don't get rid of it completely because I would love to see some more office space making it's way up Woodward. Especially for business' that can't afford the CBD prices but want to be in the city.
I don't think so. You can see the area where the office tower is planned for between the new apartments and The Ellington in the rendering. It looks like the apartments are planned for a narrow stretch of land along Eliot.

$30M Skilled Trades Training Center Coming to Detroit

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The city of Detroit has a new multi-million-dollar construction project underway, this time in the Oakman Boulevard area on the city’s west side.

The Michigan Statewide Carpenters and Millwrights Joint Apprenticeship and Training Fund broke ground Wednesday on its new Detroit training center. The $30 million center is projected to open sometime in 2021.

“For Detroit residents, this school will be an opportunity to start a lifelong career in the skilled trades, debt-free,” says Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. “With all of the construction that is coming to Detroit, this school could not come at a better time.”

The center’s training area will feature a 30-booth weld shop, flooring manipulation area, high bay space with an overhead crane, and classrooms with smart board technology. Additionally, the building will offer meeting space for contractor symposiums, career fairs, apprenticeship readiness programs, and space for community events.
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Phase 1 of the Joe Louis Greenway is expected to start in spring, 2021.
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We are excited to announce the first phase of construction. The first three miles of the greenway are located on a former railway at Warren Avenue to Fullerton Avenue (see map). Phase 1 will include separate paths for slow and fast users (such as walkers and cyclists) and will provide safe street crossings and neighborhood connections.


We anticipate construction to start spring of 2021.

There is also now a survey for the Joe Louis Greenway.
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The City of Detroit is leading community engagement for the first phase of the Joe Louis Greenway. We would like your feedback so together we can design a greenway that serves your needs.





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why does stuff like this have to take stupidly long
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why does stuff like this have to take stupidly long
A combination of red tape and hardly any funding. This whole project is funded by charity foundations and government grants.
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why does stuff like this have to take stupidly long
I have a feeling that a good amount of the southern portion of the greenway will be done by BNA as they construct the customs plaza for the Gordie Howe Int’l Bridge. But that also means it probably won’t be done until 2023 or 2024.
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Not sure if anyone ever posted this here but there's a website where you can see all the development taking place in Brush Park
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Historic Ulysses S. Grant house cut in 2, ready for 15-mile move across Detroit

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DETROIT – The Detroit home the 18th president of the United States has been cut in two and will soon be moved to a new location within the city.

The Michigan History Center intends to renovate the house and reopen it as a public education and resource center based on the lives and legacies of Julia and Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. president and commanding general of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
The house currently sits in two pieces at the Michigan State Fairgrounds at Woodward Avenue and Eight Mile Road, according to a news release from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Plans call for it to be transported more than 15 miles in late July or early August to the corner of Orleans and Wilkins streets in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Detroit.
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There are now updated renderings on 'Bedrock Detroit' latest YouTube Video for the Hudson Site
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The 511 Woodward project is now moving forward after funding approval, also, along the East Jefferson Corridor a 42,000 square feet Meijer is being proposed.
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DETROIT – A project to revitalize a vacant four-story building in Downtown Detroit looks promising after approval from the Michigan Strategic Fund.

The 511 Woodward project is expected to turn the building into a multi-use retail and office space, with the first floor to be occupied by the Downtown Detroit Partnership. The local nonprofit supports workforce developments. The project also plans for improvements along Woodward Avenue, to generate a total capital investment of $18 million and create approximately 101 full-time jobs.

To alleviate the brownfield conditions of the site, the MSF approved a brownfield work plan, including state tax capture valued at $1.49 million, for the city of Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. In addition, local support, including participation in the brownfield work plan, includes a value of $72,414.

In addition to the 511 Woodward project, the Jefferson Larned Development Company LLC is planning to develop vacant property along East Jefferson Corridor. The proposed project comprises of a 42,000-square-foot Meijer that is expected to create 72 full-time jobs.

The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority was approved of a brownfield work plan for the project valued at $573,144 to alleviate the brownfield conditions. Local support for the project values at $986,856.
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511 Woodward is well underway and has been for months, and that Meijer was announced years ago, originally with 4 stories of apartments. No idea why they're acting like this is new info.
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Take the following article with a grain of salt since there were rumors previously about a Target coming to Midtown:

Real Estate Insider: Is there still hope for a Target in Midtown? Marketing document says so

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/voices...cument-says-so



"*Updated marketing document lists Target as incoming Midtown tenant

*Developer said he is in talks with unnamed national retailer; no leases signed yet

*Document says Target is lined up to take 32,000 square feet at Woodward and Mack

It's been more than four years since chatter first became public about a possible Target Corp. store in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood, but it's been pretty quiet on that front since.

Until last week.

I wrote on Wednesday that a new 350-unit apartment development by Farmington Hills-based developer City Club Apartments LLC is planned, with a working footprint of 41,500 square feet of retail.

What I didn't include in that story is that a document marketing retail space for lease in another component of the broader South of Mack Avenue development at Woodward and Mack avenues — a parking deck and retail space under construction — identifies the Minneapolis-based shopping giant as taking 32,000 square feet in the City Club development.

Let me stress: Everyone I've spoken to says it's premature to say definitively that Target is coming to that overall 7-acre site, which has a parking deck under construction, freshly leased office space and a Marriott-branded hotel in the works.

"We have an agreement with a national retailer in which we have mutually agreed that we will not disclose any information regarding our ongoing discussions," Jonathan Holtzman, CEO and co-founder of City Club Apartments, said in a statement Tuesday. His company would develop a portion of the Nyman family-owned SoMA site, if all goes to plan. "We will honor that agreement," he said.

Note that Holtzman doesn't say there is a signed lease with a national retailer, but instead only that there are discussions. Real estate negotiations are fluid and fragile in the best of times, never mind during a global pandemic.

Jill Lewis, a spokeswoman for Target, said in an email Tuesday morning: "We are continually evaluating potential store locations to serve new guests, but I don't have any new-store news to share at this time."

The company that created the document, Farmington Hills-based brokerage firm Howard Schwartz Commercial Real Estate Services LLC, told me last week that it was last updated in March. They are not working on the City Club Apartments project, but instead the nearby parking deck that's part of SoMA.

That March timeline is important because brokers there apparently saw no reason to not list Target as a tenant or possible tenant as recently as four months ago.

Including the tenant name could also be problematic for City Club Apartments if a Target deal — if there is one to be had — collapses, and other potential tenants are spooked away. Unless publicly announced and confirmed, it's not common to see specific tenants listed in materials like that.

The materials also have fairly fresh information — including modified plans by Detroit-based Roxbury Group that were announced in February of an AC Hotel by Marriott International instead of a West Elm hotel as was originally planned. In addition, it notes that the city of Detroit is leasing a pair of existing office buildings on the site for a variety of departments.

That means Howard Schwartz brokers updated other parts of the development site on the marketing materials for accuracy, but left the Target reference alone.

A source familiar with the matter said Holtzman told the Brush Park Community Development Corp. last week that he was close to signing a lease with a major national retailer but he didn't tell the CDC board the name of the retailer.

At 32,000 square feet, it would be on the smaller side of a typical Target, which run more than 100,000 square feet.

However, the company has started opening smaller-format stores in urban areas in recent years. In addition, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported in March that Target is opening a store that's just 6,000 square feet in an undisclosed location next year, following a series of store openings ranging from 13,000 to 40,000 square feet.

Jared Friedman, director of opportunities for Farmington Hills-based Friedman Real Estate, declined comment. He is marketing the City Club Apartments development's retail space to tenants. Adam Nyman, who owns the site with his father, George, declined comment last week when I inquired about the project. I sent him an email this morning asking about Target and the marketing materials specifically."
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Old Posted Jul 30, 2020, 12:14 AM
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^Sounds more likely to happen now compared to the rumors we've heard in the past. That would be welcome news if they did sign the lease.

Construction begins this fall on Meijer store on Detroit's east side

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Construction will begin this fall on a long-awaited Meijer development on Detroit's east side.

The 42,000-square-foot store, a small-format version to be called Meijer Rivertown Market, will sit on three parcels of vacant land at 1475 E. Jefferson. It will include 100 surface parking spaces.

Construction on the $15.6 million project. is expected to be complete in late summer 2021, said Dennis Archer Jr., of Jefferson Larned Development Company LLC.

“While we do have a number of well-run local neighborhood grocery stores, I think the city of Detroit and their residents deserve the same number of options that residents who live in the suburbs have,” Archer said. “So we’re happy to contribute that to the community.”

The project is not far from where he grew up, Archer added.

Improvements to the site will also include stormwater maintenance, landscaping and sidewalks.


Detroit Pistons buy G League team from Suns which will play at new Wayne State facility

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After next season, the Detroit Pistons will have a new Gatorade League team.

The Pistons have agreed to purchase the Northern Arizona Suns from the Phoenix Suns, the team announced Wednesday. The Northern Arizona Suns will be re-branded and play in Wayne State's new basketball arena, which is being constructed and will open before the 2021-22 season.


Detroit-based auto supplier Bridgewater Interiors gets $2M grant for expansion

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Bridgewater Interiors, a Detroit-based automotive supplier, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the state as it plans for expansion that will create 400 jobs, according to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

The Michigan Strategic Fund Board approved Tuesday the Michigan Business Development Program grant for Bridgewater Interiors. The grant is one of several items the board approved during its meeting, including tax incentives for two development projects and a guideline change for the Michigan Small Business Restart Program.

According to the MEDC, the company’s expansions in Detroit and Delta Township near Lansing are expected to generate a private investment of $15 million.
Slyde burger restaurant feels support from the community ahead of fall opening

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It's been a long road to opening for Slyde, a restaurant set to debut this fall with tiny burgers in a big space in Detroit's West Village.

The team behind the chef-driven concept recently started hosting single day pop-up service while they continue to build out the full bar and restaurant, located in a former bank at Van Dyke and Kercheval. Chef Davante Burnley said the most recent pop-up earlier this month got an "overwhelming" response.

"We knew we were going to get the support of the neighborhood and the community, but at no point were we expecting 100 to walk up," he said. That was in addition to those who ordered in advance online. "As a chef, there was no way for me to gauge those kind of numbers. It was nice."
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The Parade Company is planning a massive overhaul of the Brodhead Naval Armory on Jefferson. It includes restoration, a large addition and an extension of the RiverWalk.



Vision for Detroit's Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood: apartments, restaurants, stores

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A revived Jefferson Avenue corridor with outdoor cafes, pocket parks, greenery and public art is the vision that community leaders have for Detroit's Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood.

Jefferson East Inc. and its development arm, East Jefferson Development Corporation, unveiled Thursday evening its vision in a document called the Jefferson-Chalmers Mainstreet Master Plan.

The plan focuses on redevelopment opportunities and corridor improvements designed to appeal to a variety of age groups living in the neighborhood, said Derric Scott, CEO of EJDevCo.

“By looking at these priority developments across the entire corridor and not just single development, it allows us to start to incorporate this inclusive environment that says how do we make sure that it’s successful by seniors, but also attractive and engaging to other age groups," he said. "How do we make sure that it allows for existing residents to patronize and feel welcomed, but also embracive enough that it attracts regional and outside visitors to come in as well?”

Jefferson Chalmers on the east side of Detroit sits in an area known for its canal-lined neighborhoods, waterfront parks and historic homes. The master plan study included about 70 acres of the neighborhood along the East Jefferson corridor between Alter Road and Lenox Street.
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Scott said there are four projects slated to move into construction next year. EJDevCo is working with private landowners and developers to move the projects forward.

♦A development at 14522 E. Jefferson will have 1,800 square feet of retail and three residential units.

♦A site at 14326 E. Jefferson will have 3,000 square feet of retail.

♦A development of 14701 E. Jefferson will bring 40 residential units and 10,000 square feet of retail space.

♦Also slated for redevelopment is an old liquor store at Jefferson and Manistique. The plan is to develop it into one level of retail and three levels of residential. A conceptual drawing shows a multi-story brick building with large windows on the ground floor. It would cost an estimated $12 million to $15 million, according to the plan.

A few years later, Faith Church at 897 Philip St. is envisioned to become multi-family housing. The proposed development concept calls for the adjacent school to become a community center. The estimated cost to rehab the church and school is $23 million to $25 million.

Conceptual rendering of the new building at Jefferson and Manistique.


Faith Church


Rendering of restored Vanity Ballroom and neighboring Schwinn Bike Building


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Why in the hell would the parade company want to take that on...plenty of land out there to put a prefab hangar on...
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Why in the hell would the parade company want to take that on...plenty of land out there to put a prefab hangar on...
I'm not sure I understand what the complaint is. The Armory has had a long struggle in finding someone to reuse the space or else it was going to be demolished. This is literally the best outcome and is a positive from every angle.
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Detroit train station renovation still moving ahead in pandemic: Where it stands

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Ford Motor Co. intends to keep its promise to rebuild the iconic Michigan Central Station despite the pandemic that has led to billions in losses over the past six months, the Free Press has confirmed.

The iconic building in the heart of Corktown that came to represent despair, so-called "ruin porn" and the disintegration of Detroit still remains a "priority" for Ford two years after the company celebrated its purchase of the train station along Michigan Avenue, 7 miles down the street from its world headquarters in Dearborn.

"We were excited to get back to work on Michigan Central Station in early May after a seven-week pause due to the stay-at-home order," said Christina Twelftree, Ford spokeswoman for the Corktown project.

"While the virus has impacted our project in some ways due to availability of the workforce, materials and logistics, there hasn't been any fundamental shifts to our overall development plan," she said. "We still expect to meet our original construction completion date for the train station at the end of 2022."
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Workers are now in the middle of Phase Two of the restoration of the station, the longest and most labor-intensive part of the project. This involves fixing the street structure and repairing more than 8 acres of masonry.

Workers are cleaning and repairing brick and terra cotta masonry on the exterior of the building and replacing almost 300 limestone blocks on the waiting room exterior facade.

Interior demolition continues, as well as carpentry and roofing installation. By late summer, Ford expects to have several hundred people on-site doing the work.






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