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The pace of new development no doubt has been moving at a glacial pace even with some of Gilbert's projects that required state money to "fill funding gaps".

It seems like there was a concerted effort made to focus on renovations before new construction by the Gilbert team as well up through the period of bankruptcy. The turning point in this renovation heavy trend imo was when Gilbert took on the David Stott & Book Tower renovations with these conversions & the subsequent Free Press Building renovation.

The already high residential occupancy rate in the mid to upper 90% range had another economic factor added to the mix Adient a "fortune 200 company" decided to relocate from Milwaukee to downtown. The amount of contiguous class A office space available for a large company was already low now with Adient taking over the Marquette Building there remain two buildings that have the contiguous space usually desired by large companies when choosing to lease space. There is one other building that has enough space for another "Adient" but it is split up throughout making it less competitive.

Basically the demand is there now for high-rise construction one reason often cited in the past is there has been problems getting loans from major banks for new construction projects in Detroit versus renovations. But there hasn't been any major high-rise construction since 2008 & that was a casino hotel a very safe bet so to speak from a developers point of view now that Gilbert has "broken ground" on the Hudson's project and will also start demolition work on the Monroe block in June we have a first risk taker.

If the projects are successful then I think we will see the speed of construction really take off just like even after all the problems with the Book-Cadillac renovation it showed it could be done & another group was able to do it successfully leading us to where we are now.


Found a Hudson's rendering I haven't seen before.


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Inside former Amazon HQ2 'war room,' Gilbert's Bedrock makes new kind of pitch

May 07, 2018
Crain's Detroit Business
KIRK PINHO


An image from a virtual-reality tour showing Woodward Avenue with the new skyscraper on the old J.L. Hudson's site.

On the fourth floor of Bedrock LLC's headquarters at 630 Woodward Ave. downtown, the room where Dan Gilbert's team and others crafted the city's joint pitch with Windsor for Amazon's HQ2 has been completely redone for the sake of another way to sell Detroit and market the company's assets.

It's there, the former so-called "war room" space, where the real estate development, management and leasing company has installed a new 10-foot by 12-foot tabletop model of the city. It was shown widely for the first time last week as part of the Urban Land Institute's spring meeting held in Detroit over three days for about 4,000 real estate professionals from around the world.


The model allows color-coding of properties using colored lights for use in presenting.

The model, created by Ferndale-based Zoyes Creative and Montreal-based Moment Factory, is a 1-to-50 scale model representing about 1.5 square miles of greater downtown Detroit, starting south at the Detroit River and north to Brush Park, west to the Riverfront Towers and east to Lafayette Park generally.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...es-new-kind-of
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Monroe Block gives me chills, I'm so in love with that development.
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Thanks for posting. Did you check out the 360 links at the bottom of the page in that Crains article?
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Oh DAMN no I didn't good looks!

Idk if the links would show up for non subscribers who are over their monthly quota so ill post em down here too cool to miss out on.

http://www.hudsonssitedetroit.com/360

http://www.monroeblocksdetroit.com/360
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Monroe Block gives me chills, I'm so in love with that development.
I'm also more excited with Monroe than with the Hudson's project. They should go even higher than the 35 stories!

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The Corner mixed-use development breaks ground in Corktown


By Robyn
Curbed Detroit
5/8/2018
A development that’s been in the works for years finally breaks ground today.The residential development called “The Corner,” led by Eric Larson and Larson Realty Group, will now take shape at the site of the old Tiger Stadium.
https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/5/8/...round-corktown

So excited to finally see this break ground.
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Old Posted May 8, 2018, 6:54 PM
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Monroe Block gives me chills, I'm so in love with that development.
I am too. It’s nice to see photos and the 360 view. This development is taking so long to get started. I thought it was going to be started in phases, but the only news so far is in the phase 2 portion where they are going to demo buildings in June to prep for The underground parking. Nothing new about the start of phase 1, the high rise portion other than still going through the motions with the state of Michigan for the brownfield incentives. We’ve moved from Breaking ground in January 2018 to early 2018 and now we’re almost to mid 2018.
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Old Posted May 8, 2018, 7:21 PM
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I am too. It’s nice to see photos and the 360 view. This development is taking so long to get started. I thought it was going to be started in phases, but the only news so far is in the phase 2 portion where they are going to demo buildings in June to prep for The underground parking. Nothing new about the start of phase 1, the high rise portion other than still going through the motions with the state of Michigan for the brownfield incentives. We’ve moved from Breaking ground in January 2018 to early 2018 and now we’re almost to mid 2018.
Wouldn't be the same without the tower.
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Old Posted May 9, 2018, 4:58 AM
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Jim Brady's plans 2 restaurants at old Chung's building in Detroit
  • American cuisine restaurant and bar in the works in Detroit's Cass Corridor
  • Delays due to renovations for Ann Arbor location, co-owner says
  • Now aiming for 2019 opening

I was walking around that building about a week ago taking photos and wondering if anything was ever going to be done with it. They also plan on putting a 70 space parking lot at 498 Peterboro Street, which is down the block at the corner of Second Avenue. The site is currently a vacant grass lot.

This project, as well as Detroit Shipping Company which is under construction, the Canine To Five expansion also under construction and the recently opened The Peterboro restaurant building has entirely changed these few blocks.
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Old Posted May 9, 2018, 6:24 AM
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Some updates:

April 19

The Crawford in Elton Park


The Robertson, Elton Park


4642 Second Avenue, a strange little place at the corner with West Forest that seems like its upper floors were amputated. I don't know the history on this, but its been abandoned as long as I've been aware it existed. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on what happened.


Renovations on Cass and Parsons



James Scott Mansion


6319 Michigan Avenue


April 20

427 E. Kirby Street
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6545 Woodward, to be the home of Urbanum Furniture


April 22

Willis Show Bar


Century Apartments, Second Avenue near West Alexandrine


644 Selden


Canine To Five expansion, Cass near Peterboro. Their original building is on the right.


Detroit Shipping Co.


There's been a small amount of work done at the Boulevard Hostel on Second across from the Masonic Temple


120 Henry, formerly called Arena Lofts, in District Detroit


Columbia Street


WSU Mike Ilitch School of Business


Empire Kitchen at the corner and a Charter One branch opening the next storefront south in The Scott


The Hamilton


April 30

Pure Barre joining recently opened Lovers Only restaurant to fill both retail spaces in 28Grand


2633 Austin Street


2645 Wing Place. This one appears to be going up on the foundation of a torn abandoned house


1717 24th Street, near Bagley. I spoke to the developer of this one in January 2017. He told me that smaller developers "can't touch anything in downtown or Midtown" because its all either spoken for or too expensive, and he went on to tell me how mind blowing it was seeing Detroit turn around like this.


May 7

Regency at Chene


2315 Orleans Street. I've been watching them work on this place intermittently in the past year or so.


I've posted about this building at 436 W. Columbia before, saying I had noticed it had gone from being abandoned to be renovated but I didn't know what it was. I've heard its going to be a Bucharest Grill, their first downtown since the original one closed not far from here.


Industrial Building


Stevens Building


Farwell Building


MarxModa Furniture


Shinola Hotel


Shinola Hotel's Farmer Street building


City Club Apartments
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I am too. It’s nice to see photos and the 360 view. This development is taking so long to get started. I thought it was going to be started in phases, but the only news so far is in the phase 2 portion where they are going to demo buildings in June to prep for The underground parking. Nothing new about the start of phase 1, the high rise portion other than still going through the motions with the state of Michigan for the brownfield incentives. We’ve moved from Breaking ground in January 2018 to early 2018 and now we’re almost to mid 2018.
I believe you're confused. Much like the Hudson site, the ground-breaking for the project will be with the start of the garage, which of course must be built before the towers can go into place. It will break ground this summer. So it's only a bit behind schedule. Not sure where you're getting that the underground parking is or even could be "Phase II." The phase are for the two blocks.

DetroitSky, with Ford most likely coming into Corktown, it looks like the development west of there will be the new norm. "West Corktown" was already being developed, but this will push small Corktown developers west for sure. It's really crazy. I have family who grew up in the city as kids come back every other year or so; they are always amazed at the places development is happening. Yeah, most stuff is concentrated downtown and Midtown, but there are a lot of little projects happening all around the city that most new Detroiters have yet to see.
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Awesome updates Detroitsky. thanks for sharing
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Awesome updates Detroitsky. thanks for sharing
Ditto that! MarxModa has some nice new digs. Did that used to be a bank?
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Thanks for the update. You get around!
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I believe you're confused. Much like the Hudson site, the ground-breaking for the project will be with the start of the garage, which of course must be built before the towers can go into place. It will break ground this summer. So it's only a bit behind schedule. Not sure where you're getting that the underground parking is or even could be "Phase II." The phase are for the two blocks.

DetroitSky, with Ford most likely coming into Corktown, it looks like the development west of there will be the new norm. "West Corktown" was already being developed, but this will push small Corktown developers west for sure. It's really crazy. I have family who grew up in the city as kids come back every other year or so; they are always amazed at the places development is happening. Yeah, most stuff is concentrated downtown and Midtown, but there are a lot of little projects happening all around the city that most new Detroiters have yet to see.
Thanks for clarifying, I thought I had read that separate parking for the residential block/tower was being built and another for the office building block. But if it’s all one garage I see what your saying about the building demo being the groundbreaking. It will be nice when a step by step timeline of the project is made public like they did with hudsons site
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DetroitSky, with Ford most likely coming into Corktown, it looks like the development west of there will be the new norm. "West Corktown" was already being developed, but this will push small Corktown developers west for sure. It's really crazy. I have family who grew up in the city as kids come back every other year or so; they are always amazed at the places development is happening. Yeah, most stuff is concentrated downtown and Midtown, but there are a lot of little projects happening all around the city that most new Detroiters have yet to see.
There's tons of little projects going on all over that no one knows about. I always come across new projects I never knew about whenever I'm out and about.

deja vu, that building was First State Bank and is commonly referred to as the Olde Building. It's been empty as long as I can remember but is now MarxModa's headquarters.

Thanks all! I'm glad you enjoy the updates!
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The Farwell looks amazing. So great so see renovations of these historic buildings. This level of development was unimaginable 10 years ago.
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Seven-story building, mixed-use development proposed in Brush Park


112 Edmund Place


2827 John R, including adaptive reuse of the roofless carriage house currently on the site.


105 Alfred Street
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I love what City Modern - and even the Scott - has done for Brush Park. No more boring Crosswinds townhomes; that era, mercifully, looks to be over.
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I love that adaptive reuse at 2827 John R.

Part of a larger investment into federally owned properties downtown, upgrades coming to McNamara Building as well.


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GSA to start $89.5 million renovation this summer to consolidate regional federal workforce

By ANNALISE FRANK
Crain's Detroit Business
May 11, 2018

-$89.5 million project announced in 2015
-Project will bring together about 12 federal agencies, 1,900 employees
-The Christman Co. named construction manager



The U.S. General Services Administration plans to start work this summer to renovate a Detroit office building and consolidate federal government presence there.

The $89.5 million project, announced in 2015, will bring together about 12 federal agencies and 1,900 employees in one building at 985 Michigan Ave. Approximately 800 people currently work there.

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It is also spending $140 million to correct building deficiencies and improve systems at the historic Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in downtown Detroit. That project is expected to finish in late 2019. Around $12 million in mechanical, electrical and plumbing upgrades to several floors of the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building, also downtown, is expected to finish in summer 2020.
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