Posted Jan 14, 2019, 8:45 PM
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MDOT to transplant legendary Detroit recording studio for I-94 rebuild
ANNALISE FRANK
Crain's Detroit
January 11, 2019
-State transportation department bought United Sound Systems Recording Studios and its parking lot for $1.7 million
-Decision was years in the making, as MDOT sought a way to avoid harming the historic property while getting I-94 rebuilt
-Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis among those to record hits there
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MDOT bought the United Sound Systems Recording Studios at 5840 Second Ave. in Midtown and its adjacent parking lot Dec. 14 for $1.7 million. It plans to sell the historic building at public auction after moving it slightly north onto the parking lot, away from the retaining walls expected to be built for the I-94 modernization project.
The department hasn't yet determined a cost or timeline for the move, spokesman Rob Morosi said.
The building was listed for sale for $1.5 million in June this year, Curbed Detroit reported.
United Sound, Detroit's first major independent recording studio, has been jeopardized by impending I-94 highway widening over the years. Detroit City Council designated it a historic district in 2015, but from 2005 until around then, demolition was a major possibility.
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