Major Downtown/Midtown/Corktown Developments!

[usroute10]

MIDTOWN DEVELOPMENTS, PART 1

MIDTOWN WEST – Under Construction

Phase I (shown below, my own photo!), called “Fourth & Selden”, will consist of 26 for-sale condos, 4,200 square feet of retail, and other amenities like a gym and yoga room.

https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/11/1...t-construction




MONDRIAN (WOODWARD WEST) – Under Construction

A large, long-vacant lot on prime real estate along Woodward in Midtown is about to be transformed into a five-story apartment building with ground-level retail. Work has begun on the $60 million project called Woodward West, which is slated to include 204 apartments and nearly 25,000 square feet of ground level retail on Woodward at Stimson, just south of Martin Luther King Boulevard. About 20% of the apartments will be offered below market rate as affordable housing. It also would feature its own fitness center, sauna, outdoor roof deck, theater room and business center.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...it/6343351002/




COMPLEX@444 – Under Construction

Complex@444 is a 21,900-square-foot mixed retail and office space collective. The ground floor will offer micro-retail spaces the size of a shipping container, including one anchor tenant space. The 2nd floor will consist of small private office space, with shared amenities at each end of the floor with reservable space. The 3rd floor will feature a large single tenant space with a large city skyline-facing glass wall and outdoor terrace. Will be connected to Detroit Shipping Company, a restaurant collective and beer hall.

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/g...t?oid=25797026




CADILLAC SHOWROOM – Completed

The historic building, located at 6001 Cass Ave. and designed by legendary Detroit industrial architect Albert Kahn, is now home to Tata Technologies’ North American headquarters and collaborative workspace company WeWork. The redevelopment includes four available retail spots for shops or restaurants. There’s also a possibility Wayne State will house an art gallery in one of the spaces.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ed/6280229002/




SUGAR HILL PROJECT – Under Construction

$37 million affordable housing project at John R and Garfield streets will bring 68 apartment units, 11,800 feet of ground-floor retail, and a 160-space parking structure. About 20 percent of the apartments, 14 in total, will be reserved as affordable for those making between 50 to 60 percent of the area median income. Will also include a green alley. The parking garage will be for the surrounding retail, restaurants, art gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art

https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/12/1...tment-building

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by usroute10

MIDTOWN DEVELOPMENTS, PART 1

MIDTOWN WEST – Under Construction

Phase I (shown below, my own photo!), called “Fourth & Selden”, will consist of 26 for-sale condos, 4,200 square feet of retail, and other amenities like a gym and yoga room.

https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/11/1...t-construction

Wow that first one is garbage. I am surprised this was allowed. At least we know where the tear down the slums project of 2040 will be.

some of the others are OK.


there seems to be a huge amount of residential units coming on the market. Otehr than landmark buildings like Stott, they are not filling up. However the pricing does nto seem to be coming down either. As businesses leave the city, more and more office buildings will need to be converted to apartments and condos. How many units can the city support?

I always thought the ren cen would make a neat self-contained university. They would need to figure out a way to put in some athletic facilities, but otherwise, it would be a pretty easy conversion and a rational use for a stupidly placed building. Another large university in the City might add the needed push to make the downtown more popular as a place to live.

[usroute10]

A link to a video showing most of the recently constructed & currently-in-construction projects in the Midtown area of Detroit - from 30 Jun 2021:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5iitoP9Cg

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by usroute10

A link to a video showing most of the recently constructed & currently-in-construction projects in the Midtown area of Detroit - from 30 Jun 2021:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5iitoP9Cg

Thanks for the video. Good to see things are moving ahead. Sad to see what architecture has become. No creativity and they have given up on form or aesthetic. Just human storage units.

[NoMansLands]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

Thanks for the video. Good to see things are moving ahead. Sad to see what architecture has become. No creativity and they have given up on form or aesthetic. Just human storage units.

Some buildings like this one are embracing the industrial age look, very creative, and gritty, much like Detroit, it's embracing the new age of Detroit culture. There's plenty of room left over if someone wants to build traditional neo-reclaimed brick rowhouses or cape cod condos, but the industrial look is attracting the millennials to repopulate downtown.
Detroit has a unique opportunity to embrace building a futuristic city unlike any other. What other city, strategically located, core necessities already in place, historic skyscrapers already in place, shipping as well as marinas, border crossing, has the clean slate vacant and vast real estate Detroit has to reinvent itself?
Unique and colorful buildings with an industrial look that is both retro and futuristic is fascinating to watch being built.
The corner burned out old house still standing is a head scratcher though. Maybe they're using it for staging of something? I sure hope it comes down.

[usermi]

40 Hague St Lofts have been completed in the North End

[usermi]

Originally Posted by usermi

40 Hague St Lofts have been completed in the North End

I noticed, wonder if they're fully rented, the North End is hot right now, lots of rehabs going on, most of the rift raft gone, lots of land but unfortunately with construction costs so high the only way to build is with government grants.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by NoMansLands

Some buildings like this one are embracing the industrial age look, very creative, and gritty, much like Detroit, it's embracing the new age of Detroit culture. There's plenty of room left over if someone wants to build traditional neo-reclaimed brick rowhouses or cape cod condos, but the industrial look is attracting the millennials to repopulate downtown.
Detroit has a unique opportunity to embrace building a futuristic city unlike any other. What other city, strategically located, core necessities already in place, historic skyscrapers already in place, shipping as well as marinas, border crossing, has the clean slate vacant and vast real estate Detroit has to reinvent itself?
Unique and colorful buildings with an industrial look that is both retro and futuristic is fascinating to watch being built.
The corner burned out old house still standing is a head scratcher though. Maybe they're using it for staging of something? I sure hope it comes down.

I would nto call that an "industrial look as if it were something planned. It is just the cheapest most basic box they they can come up with. Maybe Walmart box look is a more apt description.

The look of the buildings is not what is drawing people back into he city, it is the liveliness of the city. No one says "Where can I go live in a basic bland box?" They are coming into the city despite the bland box architecture, not because of it. Bland box architecture can be found anywhere. That is exactly part of the problem. Filling the city with this type of architecture makes it no different than any other city or suburb for that matter. If you destroy the architectural appeal of the city, you will seriously reduce its appeal.