Awesome to see Ralph C. Wilson coming together.
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Originally Posted by deja vu
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I’m not surprised that the "resequencing" of District Detroit is centered around the UMCI with its official groundbreaking in back in December. I’m glad to see the 18 story residential tower with student housing & 20% “affordable housing” offering “below market rates”. The University of Michigan Center for Innovation is one of the most exciting projects of this year & that’s not a low bar.
With a new Little Caesar’s HQ next to the Fox & the lower demand for office space get the feeling that a renovation of the Fox offices into hotel space is likely going to be the call for the next announcement.
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One of the development's two planned hotels: either a newly constructed 14-story, 290-room hotel next to Little Caesars Arena or an adaptive reuse of the 10-story Fox Theatre office building, 2211 Woodward, to become a 177-room Fox Hotel.
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While understand getting lending in Detroit is harder than most cities and getting lending for office space is particularly challenging right now. However I’m beyond exasperated with the way Chris Illitch has put forward so many projects only to repeatedly resequence District Detroit. The whole point of spending so much public money at a time when the city was coming out of bankruptcy was to see the Fox Town vision a generation in the making come to fruition.
I’m glad to see some pressure being applied to Olympia via the negotiations over the county owned lot, unless Olympia is ready to build then there’s no reason to sell them a lucrative property with a large revenue stream. The spring 2025 ground breaking deadline doesn’t as mentioned isn’t solid but it’s not going to just allow Olympia to sit pat and expect the transformative founds to be waiting.
The site deserves high quality development and I’ll be extremely disappointed if a rushed job is put in place to access the funds. I imagine that’s what the flexibility in the deadline is for. That said while Olympia owns the lions share of the lands planned for District Detroit they don’t own them all. The Woodward frontage lots in front of CoPa could attract the interest of another developer who might want to and be in the position to build a mixed use apartment, hotel & entertainment space.
I love the Illitch renderings but perhaps if Chris is more interested in waiting for his land value to appreciate before he commits then maybe the city, county & state could start shopping around the competition.
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Originally Posted by hybrydy
There's a long list of these types of projects.
- Buffalo, New York, is getting the largest award: a $55.6 million grant to build a cap and tunnel over a 1960s-era six-lane expressway, which segregated Black residents from the rest of the city.
Oak Park, Michigan, a Detroit suburb, is receiving $21.7 million to reconstruct a crumbling plaza over I-696, a trenched highway that bisects the city's Orthodox Jewish community.
Boston is getting $2 million to begin planning a park over the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) in Chinatown, considered the state's most polluted neighborhood.
St. Paul, Minnesota, received a $2 million grant to study the environmental and traffic impact of a proposed five-block "land bridge" to reconnect the city's majority Black Rondo neighborhood.
Tampa is getting a $5.3 million grant to lower an interchange ramp to street level in order to eliminate the barrier between downtown and the city's riverfront and to make the streets safer for walking and biking.
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It’s great to see so many freeway caping projects. All the salt used on the park over 696 and just the crazy freeze thaw cycles in Michigan made driving that stretch in Oak Park kinda harry. All those big ole icicles dangling from the ceiling didn’t exactly give the feeling of safety when temperatures climbed above freezing.
I’m very excited 375 removed, 75 hopefully capped & the potential of removing a large stretch of 475 in Flint linking up downtown with the cultural center & Mott College. Glad in several ways to see the 696 park cap renovated. North Oak Park is a nice area it’s got a bit of an urban vibe along 11 mile as it borders Berkeley, bit of a hidden gem considering its zoned for Berkeley schools.
Speaking of the United Artists renovation when the theater was demolished some people got a sneak peak in the portion of the lobby that’s been preserved. That green construction material in the back is where the lobby is. I was hoping it would be used as some kind of a public space but I can see it being a posh space for a tenant.
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