10 new Detroit developments to get excited about in 2024 (Hudson, Ovid: apartments, condos)

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]Ford's Michigan Central Station

One of the most dramatic rehab jobs in the nation, the formerly abandoned Michigan Central Station off Michigan Avenue in Corktown, will reopen next year as new office, events and community space — and possibly later add a hotel.

Ford has yet to announce an official reopening date for the building, although it is expected at some point in 2024.

Joe Louis Arena site apartments, hotel

Renderings show the future 25-story, 600-room hotel connecting to the apartments tower as well as nearby Huntington Place, formerly known as TCF Center and Cobo Hall.

The proposed hotel would be the second largest in the city, behind the 1,328-room Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. The project is scheduled to start the city approvals process next month and potentially break ground in the second quarter.

Potential Gordie Howe Bridge completion

Officially, the bridge is still scheduled to be done by late 2024. But there is speculation that it might not be fully ready until 2025. A spokesperson for the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority told the Free Press last week, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, that "we may see movement in the schedule" for completing the bridge.

Co-Op grocery

A new full-service grocery store is coming to 8324 Woodward in the North End.

The two-story, 31,000-square-foot Detroit Food Commons building will contain the Detroit People's Food Co-Op, a cooperatively owned grocery that will be open to the public. The building also will have community spaces and an incubator kitchen for food entrepreneurs.

Hudson's site getting closer

Dan Gilbert's Hudson's site development broke ground in December 2017 and is finally getting close to being done.

Development officials this year gave Bedrock a deadline of Dec. 31, 2024, for reaching "substantial completion," although time extensions — if necessary — are possible.

The skyscraper features a unique tapering design, and once finished, would be the second-tallest building in Detroit at about 680 feet, only behind the Renaissance Center (727 feet). It is expected to contain a 210-room ultra-luxury Edition Hotel and just under 100 condos.

The office block is to have 400,000 square feet of office space, plus meeting space and retail space. No future tenants have been announced.

AC Hotel

Further up Woodward, construction is underway of a new 10-story, 154-room Marriott International AC Hotel. The project includes the restoration of the 120-year-old Bonstelle Theatre — situated next door to the hotel — as future special events space. Both buildings could be finished in September.

United Artists Theater building

Redevelopment of the 18-story United Artists Theater Building, 150 Bagley St., into a 148-unit, mixed-income residential building called the Residences @ 150 Bagley has been underway since early 2022 and on pace for a possible summer opening.

More Tiger Stadium site apartments

Now a new batch of apartments is getting close to opening on the left-field side of the old stadium site. The development — called Left Field — will eventually have two buildings and 113 total apartments, with about 40% set aside at below-market rents.

Big New Center development

It includes a new 21-story hospital tower along West Grand Boulevard and allows for the conversion of all the hospital's patient rooms — an 877 bed count — into private rooms. Construction could begin in early 2024 for a 2029 completion.

A spring groundbreaking is possible for a nearby eight-story, 325,000-square-foot medical research center, at 6175 Third St., that would be a joint project between Henry Ford Health and MSU.

Later on, starting in 2025, a Pistons-related entity would develop three apartment buildings totaling 662 apartments.

District Detroit + UMCI

The UMCI is a future U-M academic building in downtown that broke ground just before Christmas. It's expected to take about 2½ years to build, and will offer U-M graduate degrees in areas such as robotics, computer engineering and entrepreneurship, as well as job training and certificates for the metro Detroit workforce and local nonuniversity students.

District Detroit gained local and state-level approvals last spring and was cleared for groundbreaking. Yet construction, once expected to start last summer with a new 17-story office building next to Comerica Park, has yet to get underway. An updated timeline could come in the months ahead.

[sheerbliss]

Wonderful! I visited Detroit last summer and was very impressed with how clean, safe and attractive downtown was.

[Coldjensens]

The park and lagoon behind the post office on river-walk might get done too.

[midwest1]

I'd like to add a Charity Road Trip project I and some friends and I are working on in Gary....connecting it to Detroit. Major news regarding it coming later this year...


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[LeisureSLarry]

Great to see all this happen.. I live outside of Detroit by some distance but it is still the closest big city to me. I do not spend much time there because I do not work there but developments like this might change things.

BRING BACK THE RUST BELT!!!