Detroit's rebirth continues!
The big news:
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...FREE/100829903
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A critical piece of financing has been approved for a mixed-use development in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood.
The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority approved a $1.7 million tax credit for a residential and retail project at the southeast corner of Cass Avenue and Canfield Street called the Auburn.
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The Auburn will be built on a site that is vacant and blighted. It will include 54 market-rate, one-bedroom apartments units and four studio apartments. There will also be 11 retail units comprising 9,100 square feet.
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Also from the Crain's article:
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Also approved by the brownfield board was a $300,000 tax credit for the restoration of the former home of James A. Burgess Book, Jr. at 8469 E. Jefferson Ave.
The house will be the new home of the Ars Poetica Chamber Orchestra. The $1.5 million mixed-use development will also include other offices, a conservatory, an apartment and a retail music store.
The building was designed for J.B. Book by one of Detroit's well-known architects, Louis Kamper, and completed in 1911.
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Work has started at 23rd Street and Michigan Avenue, a former business district, converting the historic Grosfield Building into market-rate apartments/lofts. This is the first signs of life in this depressed district since the early 1990s, when the last bars & businesses closed. Nearby businesses include in the venerable Hygrade Deli, and just down the street is the sprawling 23rd Street Studios, a film studio which has seen an increase in business since the Film Tax Incentives started here in Michigan.
Plans viewable here:
http://www.eccodesigngroup.com/portf...ield-building/
The owners also quietly purchased a beautiful bank building & bar w/liquor license directly across the street, and put up signs on the building in an attempt to attract a new restaurant or business.
http://oconnordetroit.com/properties...415_mich/1.htm
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Up at the Detroit Medical Center, Vanguard has announced plans for an $895 million to $1 billion investment in the sprawling complex, adding new buildings and major upgrades to existing facilities. 5000 workers will be hired for construction, which will start in October. The largest addition will be this new wing of the Children's hospital:
For more details, read up at the DMC's website here:
http://www.dmc.org/?id=693&sid=1
Just down the street, crews are working hard to restore the historic Helen Newberry Nurses Home into apartments. This is an old photo. The building was totally gutted, roof included, and its interior is being completely rebuilt.
http://detroit1701.org/Helen%20Newbe...es%20Home.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71288712@N00/678436858
This is another 'supergreen' development in the vein of the recently-completed 71 E. Garfield.
http://www.modeldmedia.com/devnews/7...eld020210.aspx
This is all part of the recently-named "Sugar Hill Arts District" around Woodward & Garfield.
http://www.sugarhilldetroit.com/
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Detroit's Riverfront is seeing major work completed this year.
- The Dequindre Cut extension is finally complete, now connecting the Cut with the Riverwalk. The beautiful pathway runs right alongside the Globe Trading Company Building. Rumors have recently flown that the 1896 building, a former shipbuilding warehouse and one of Detroit's oldest industrial buildings (Henry Ford worked there as a teen), will be converted into a recreation center & rock climbing facility. Former plans called for its conversion into condos or lofts.
More on the Globe Trading Bldg plans here:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100825/METRO/8250441/1361/Milliken-State-Park-gets-$25K-for-planned-playground#ixzz0xgIr94TA
- The Elevator Building is finally nearing completion. This landmark project is converting a 100-year old warehouse into retail, office, and studio spaces. Fronting a State Park and with direct access to the Dequindre Cut greenway, this project promises to be a success. Tenants have already put down deposits. The building is providing large work spaces, a common kitchen & bathroom area, and amenities like high-speed internet and 220V power.
http://elevatorbuilding.com/
- The former Franklin Furniture Building, an Albert Kahn-design warehouse building, has been beautifully converted into a new middle school, called the University Prep Science & Math Middle School, part of the much-lauded University Prep charter schools. Couldn't find a recent photo (the building is 90% finished and looks better than the render, but a render is below.
http://www.modeldmedia.com/developme...ts/mshigh.aspx
Render:
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Other projects:
- At The Lodge & Martin Luther King Boulevard, on a gigantic parcel of empty land (once the home of the Jeffries East projects) workers are putting in a sewer system & streets for a future condo/housing development, along the lines of the Woodbridge Estates development to the northeast of it. Plans call for 180 units of mixed-income housing.
- In Midtown, work is completed in the 'green alley' on 2nd between Prentis & Canfield; the "Green Garage" just had its new windows installed; and Motor City Brewing Works has a new rear entrance. Read about the 'green' projects here:
http://www.greengaragedetroit.com/in...itle=Main_Page
- 3 historic Detroit Public schools have been targeted for $60 million in upgrades & renovations.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/24391062/detail.html
http://dpsschoolconstruction.org/
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