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So Detroit Public TV has started doing in-depth reporting on various issues and news stories around the city (not like the major news media is bad at this... except that they are), and development is one of the subjects they look in to. This first two clips look at a renovation in Islandview and the pre-fab construction on The Corner in Corktown. I'd be curious to see them interview someone from Bedrock (hopefully Dan Gilbert) or someone from Olympia on their projects and/or their overall visions and whatever.

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Plenty of space at the parking site next to the WCB. I would like to see another skyscraper. Room enough for underground parking, a tower and movie theatres. Movie theatres would bring more (young) people and atmosphere downtown.
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Downtown Detroit Partnership has an interactive 3D map for most downtown construction projects.

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Church of Scientology opens doors of downtown Detroit center


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The Church of Scientology began operations Monday at its new downtown Detroit location.

Church staff arrived Monday morning to its newest center in Metro Detroit, located on Jefferson at Griswold in the former Standard Savings Building.

Their arrival comes a day after the church held a private grand opening and dedication ceremony at the 55,000-square-foot building. Church officials said more than 2,000 parishioners attended Sunday's event.




Albert Kahn Building redevelopment to cost $58 million

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Construction is expected to begin in January and take about 18 months to complete, said Matthew Sosin, principal of Farmington Hills-based Northern Equities Group, which is half of the joint venture that bought the building and five other West Bethune Street parcels in June for $9.5 million from another joint venture led by Detroit-based developer The Platform LLC. Birmingham-based Lutz Real Estate Investments is the other co-owner of the property along with Northern Equities.

The redevelopment is expected to bring about 211 apartments and 75,650 square feet of retail and other commercial space to the area across the 326,000-square-foot building at 7430 Second Avenue. A Neighborhood Enterprise Zone tax abatement will be sought for the residential space, the document says.


New craft beer bar opens above Gather in Eastern Market

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Fourteen more taps, to be exact, of craft beers from around the world. There's also a rooftop patio scheduled to open in the spring.

The new bar, called Collect (spelled "Cøllect," to include the Danish word øl, which means beer) debuted officially Monday in the 1,200-square-foot floor above Gather, which opened at 1454 Gratiot Ave. in 2016 as a minimalist, American fare eatery.

Husband-and-wife co-owners Kyle and Lea Hunt invested $40,000-$50,000 in the new bar.
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https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...-estate-market

This is a good sign. Detroit could use another big name investor
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This is a good sign. Detroit could use another big name investor
If only he would buy and develop all the parking lots and the few remaining gems in Ilitch territory
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West Riverfront Park has finally gotten a name.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation gifts $100M for parks, trails in Detroit

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In one of the largest gifts of its kind ever, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation is donating $200 million to create new parks and recreational trails in Detroit and in the Buffalo, New York, area.

The gift will be split equally between the two regions. In the biggest Detroit piece, the foundation is donating $50 million to the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy to build the planned 22-acre west riverfront park.

In a ceremony Wednesday at the west riverfront site on what would have been Wilson's 100th birthday, the conservancy will announce that the new park will be named the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park in honor of Wilson, a longtime metro Detroit resident whose business achievements included his ownership of the Buffalo Bills pro football team.
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The 22-acre west riverfront was the focus of a major design competition earlier this year, also funded by the foundation, in which Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a New York-based landscape architecture firm, won the commission to design the new park.

The Van Valkenburgh vision for the west riverfront parcel — currently just a flat grassy expanse of ground — would reshape the site in significant ways. The water's edge would be opened up to allow for swimming in a dramatic new inlet called "The Cove." The inlet will encourage swimming in warm weather and skating during the winter.
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^ great news!

City Council OKs $104 million tax breaks for Ford's Corktown campus

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Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved $104 million in tax breaks spread over 35 years to subsidize Ford Motor Co.'s rescue of the long-abandoned Michigan Central Station and creation of a sprawling 5,000-worker campus in Corktown.

The City Council also approved a community benefits agreement in which Ford has agreed to invest $10 million in the greater Corktown neighborhood as part of its development of a $740 million autonomous and electric vehicle technology campus west of downtown Detroit.

A majority of council members approved measures that will relieve Ford of $104 million in city taxes and $239 million in total tax breaks over 35 years using the Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act, a Commercial Rehabilitation District and a Renaissance Zone.
Davenport University chooses New Center One building for Detroit campus

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Davenport University plans to open a new satellite campus in Detroit's New Center One building in January in response to an opportunity the Grand Rapids-based business school sees in customizing college degrees and certificates for employers in the city.

The university has leased 12,000 square feet of first-floor retail space in the New Center One building at 3031 W. Grand Blvd. in the heart of New Center, where development activity has heated up in the past year. Davenport's space will include six classrooms, a computer lab and work and study areas and be built to serve more than 2,000 students per semester.
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That park is sorely needed, the west riverfront is so dull, this will make it beautiful. Hopefully, we can get some development around it soon.
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Old Posted Oct 18, 2018, 1:06 AM
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That park is sorely needed, the west riverfront is so dull, this will make it beautiful. Hopefully, we can get some development around it soon.
Agreed. That large vacant parcel next to the Salvation Army building on Fort Street would be perfect for a decent sized mixed use development fronting the park.
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Old Posted Oct 18, 2018, 10:28 AM
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I'd really like to see the massive post office facility reconstructed into something with a mix of uses, eventually. I can't imagine they are efficiently using all that space these days.

I learned recently that the area in between the park and Corktown was actually developed as a planned industrial park, which is where the name of the neighborhood comes from (West Side Industrial). Redevelopment of the area, then, would require a pretty big rezoning. I don't think it needs to be developed as a bunch of high-rises, but I'd say you could maybe carve out a few blocks up to Lafayette to begin with.

Another interesting thing is that I heard that Norfolk Southern is filing to abandon part of their Boatyard railroad yard immediately east of the park, between Rose Parks and the Ambassador Bridge. It would really be something if eventually you have the park stretch from downtown to Riverside Park on the other side of the bridge.
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I'd really like to see the massive post office facility reconstructed into something with a mix of uses, eventually. I can't imagine they are efficiently using all that space these days.

I learned recently that the area in between the park and Corktown was actually developed as a planned industrial park, which is where the name of the neighborhood comes from (West Side Industrial). Redevelopment of the area, then, would require a pretty big rezoning. I don't think it needs to be developed as a bunch of high-rises, but I'd say you could maybe carve out a few blocks up to Lafayette to begin with.

Another interesting thing is that I heard that Norfolk Southern is filing to abandon part of their Boatyard railroad yard immediately east of the park, between Rose Parks and the Ambassador Bridge. It would really be something if eventually you have the park stretch from downtown to Riverside Park on the other side of the bridge.

the park will be a destination on part of the Joe Louis Greenway. Excited to see the see the city reconnect in way not tied the automobile.
http://detroitgreenways.org/blog/wp-...ompression.pdf


more on West Side Industrial history here:
http://corktownhistory.blogspot.com/...ndustrial.html
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...iew=1up;seq=21

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The plan called for multistory office buildings to be constructed along the Lodge Expressway; warehouses and wholesalers to be established between Sixth Street and Trumbull; light industry and trucking terminals between Trumbull and Twelfth Street; and in the middle of it all, "a commercial center to include a hotel for out of town buyers and truck drivers, a cafeteria, small shops and employee meeting rooms" (The Municipal Employee, April 1961). A two-acre site was reserved next to the "commercial center" for a public park to include "landscaped recreation areas with shuffleboard courts, horseshoe pits and benches"--evidently the preferred recreational accommodations of truckers and wholesale buyers.




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The northwest corner of Howard and Tenth Streets in 1956, and today, after the West Side Industrial Project was implemented.

Top photo courtesy Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, bottom photo courtesy Google Street View.
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Urbānum brings furniture, home decor, and more to New Center

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The shop will host a grand opening party Wednesday, October 24 from 5:30 to 8:30. The party will benefit Humble Design, which helps families transition out of homelessness in part by providing decor and furniture. The public is welcome to attend the event, but they should register.

Urbānum is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.


The Hamilton Midtown reopens after $12M renovation

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This was an unusual renovation. Broder & Sachse purchased the building in 2016, and while most renovations or new residential go for the 20 percent affordable, 80 percent market-rate method, the development group worked with the city and the United Community Housing Coalition to try to keep many of the current residents in place.

The building was about 60-70 percent occupied at that time, renting to residents below market-rate. With this deal in place, residents who qualified were temporarily moved out, and could choose to come back to the updated apartments. Their rent would face a five percent increase (if paying $600 before, it would go up to $630), and it won’t go up more than one percent a year.






Park Avenue House buyer is Oakland County developer Mario Kiezi

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Bill Nowling, a partner at Detroit-based public relations firm Lambert & Co. and a spokesman for Kiezi, said the sale of the building for an undisclosed price isn't expected to occur until the first quarter next year.

"The intention is to return that property to being a hotel," Nowling said Thursday afternoon. "We are not commenting on what flag will be there yet."
Pegasus owners buy New Parthenon, Santorini restaurants

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The family, which owns Pegasus Taverna and the Atheneum Suite Hotel, confirms that they will remodel the longtime Greek restaurant that closed earlier this week.

They have also purchased Santorini Estiatorio, located at 501 Monroe St., which shuttered last month and is undergoing major renovations, including a roof.
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"The intention is to return that property to being a hotel," Nowling said Thursday afternoon. "We are not commenting on what flag will be there yet."
Interesting. I figured they were going to turn it into higher-end residences. You can tell how under hotelled downtown was that so many hotels have been added in the past few years. It's kind of hard to believe, but they know the market better than I.
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Interesting. I figured they were going to turn it into higher-end residences. You can tell how under hotelled downtown was that so many hotels have been added in the past few years. It's kind of hard to believe, but they know the market better than I.
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The Detroit metro area and CBD lodging markets have experienced significant and record growth in recent years. The CBD’s demand growth has outpaced the additions to supply, resulting in occupancy levels similar to those experienced in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ADR peaked for the market in 2017. The renovations of existing hotels and the anticipated entrance of several additional, smaller boutique properties should support continued rate growth, with minimal impact on hotel occupancy levels. Most notably, the Detroit Foundation Hotel, a boutique property built in the former Detroit Fire Department Headquarters, opened in May 2017, and the Siren Hotel opened in the renovated Wurlitzer Building in March 2018. Additionally, the 130-room, boutique Shinola Hotel is expected to open by Thanksgiving 2018 and is anticipated to lead the market in average rate. The redevelopment efforts in Downtown Detroit continue to attract more demand to the CBD. Limited sales volume occurred in Detroit in 2014 and 2015, with most sales occurring in the surrounding suburbs and representing limited-service lodging facilities. No transactions of noteworthy importance took place in Downtown Detroit in 2016 or 2017. Overall, moderate value gains are expected in 2018, before tapering off somewhat through 2019.
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A tower crane is being erected at One Campus Martius.



Window panes being installed at the Metropolitan Building.



Alleyway being paved behind the Shinola Hotel.



And finally, progress on the 2nd floor of the Statler City Apartments.



Oh, and the Book Tower.



From Daily Detroit.
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MLS bid promises $50 million soccer complex in Detroit atop $20 million for 100-plus fields

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Local billionaire businessmen have promised Major League Soccer they will spend $95 million, including $50 million to build a soccer training and academy facility at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Seven Mile Road and an additional $20 million to create 100 youth soccer fields across the city in their bid to land an expansion team.

They would spend $25 million to retrofit Ford Field to accommodate a new MLS team, but won't build a retractable roof because it's not worth the hassle.

The details were laid out in a Sept. 24 letter from Quicken Loans Inc. Chairman and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and Detroit Pistons Vice Chairman Arn Tellem to MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Assistant Commissioner Mark Abbott. Tellem is the bid's liaison to MLS and top aide to Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores, who would co-own the team. Gores is copied on the letter along with Detroit Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford and Lions President Rod Wood, who are involved because of the bid's use of Ford Field as a home stadium for the proposed expansion team.

It's unclear if any of the $95 million promised in the letter would use any public funding. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is mentioned in the letter as backing the youth soccer field projects. Proposed are 12 soccer parks totaling more than 100 fields built over three years that would serve 150,000 kids, the letter says.


6 basketball courts in Detroit city parks refurbished as part of Pistons agreement

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Six basketball courts in Detroit parks have been refurbished as part of a six-year, $2.5 million investment to upgrade 60 courts in the city.

The project is a component of a community benefits plan created with the city as part of the Detroit Pistons' 2017 move downtown to Little Caesars Arena. Pistons owner Tom Gores and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan took part in Friday's announcement about the completion of the project's first phase.

Work included smoothing out and painting court surfaces, and repairing rims and stanchions. Another 20 courts will be refurbished by early next year.


Neighborhood butcher shop and restaurant Marrow opens in West Village

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Marrow, a new butcher shop and restaurant in Detroit's West Village, is hoping to be not only a spot where you can pick up a nice chunk of meat to cook for dinner but also a dine-in destination so you can completely avoid cooking all together.

Specializing in locally sourced, sustainably raised meat and produce, the new spot operates as store by day with organic, grass-fed beef, pork and chicken plus sausage, meatballs, deli meat and dry-aged cuts. Look for more unique proteins, too, such as rabbit mortadella and duck rillette.
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I'd really like to see the massive post office facility reconstructed into something with a mix of uses, eventually. I can't imagine they are efficiently using all that space these days.
My mom is a retiree of the post office and keeps in touch with her former coworkers.

I can confirm that USPS just recently re-consolidated much of the mail sorting that occurred at their smaller processing centers around the Detroit area (I.E. Romulus and Brownstown) back downtown.

And even before that happened, all of the administrative offices for the region were still based inside the facility.
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This one almost slipped by ... I think a lot of us here have been waiting a long time for this. The pace of retail growth in the neighborhoods over the past year or two has really been remarkable. Grand River in Rosedale Park is making headway against Livernois in the University District as the most vibrant shopping district outside of the greater downtown area.

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Tower Center, an Obscure Little Mall on Detroit's West Side, Finds New Life

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A little-known enclosed shopping mall on Detroit's west side that has barely survived is now on the brink of revitalization after landing a major tenant for an empty department store that closed in the 1980s.

Tower Center mall, 15400 Grand River at the corner of Greenfield, will be the newest Michigan location for fast-growing discount retailer Forman Mills, which is preparing to open a roughly 45,000-square-foot store in a section of the mall that once housed Montgomery Ward.

The store's planned Nov. 2 grand opening would mark the biggest development in years for the onetime Detroit retailing landmark whose last extensive renovation was in 1984. Many city residents are unaware that the small urban mall even exists.
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^ I believe Forman Mills was eyeing that property years back. Hopefully it really happens this time. It's too bad the old Montgomery Ward's in East Dearborn couldn't have been saved as well.

‘Tidal wave' of new landlords swoops into Eastern Market

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Among the buildings on tap for redevelopment: the former Detroit Water and Sewerage Department building that the city abandoned two decades ago on the north edge of the district on Riopelle Street next door to Roma Cafe.


It's windowless, sprawling, covered in graffiti.

Enter George Jackson's Ventra LLC and Ottawa-based Halcor Group, which plan a $20 million to $22 million redevelopment of the 105,000-square-foot building into the Riopelle Market, which would have a mix of food-centered space like restaurants, accelerators and other uses, as well as office space.

It's that mix that Jackson, the former head of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., said would help make Eastern Market an even busier destination more regularly.

"Eastern Market should be a seven-day location, not just a weekend location," Jackson said.

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