Posted Jan 30, 2014, 5:52 PM
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The massing doesn't really fill the site like Staler did, but it has nice height and hotel at least faces GCP. There is a podium but would the hotel be better if it lined the streetwall of GCP?
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Boutique hotel development planned for former Statler Hilton site in Detroit
By Kirk Pinho. January 30, 2014.
A group of Michigan and out-of-state investors plans a new development with a 118-room boutique hotel, 150 high-rise residences, a Miller Parking Services parking garage with at least 700 spaces and three restaurants on the site of the former Statler Hilton Hotel on Grand Circus Park.
A $1.5 million purchase offer and $100,000 deposit for the site on Washington Boulevard has been presented to the office of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, the Downtown Development Authority and the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., according to a news release.
The Downtown Detroit Executive Hotel Complex development group expects the project, dubbed the Fitzgerald Place, to be complete by the third quarter of 2015.
According to the news release, the owners of the 34-story Broderick Tower at 10 Witherell St. are included in the investment group. However, Mike Higgins, owner representative for the Broderick Tower, told Crain's he is not involved in the project.
The group has sole Detroit market rights for the San Francisco-based Commune Hotels & Resorts Inc. brand of hotels, which includes Thompson Hotels and Tommie Hotels.
The first Luca's Chophouse in Detroit is expected at the Fitzgerald Place development, according to the release. Gillespie's jazz bar and the Blues Note club are expected, as well. There also would be a Grant Street Cleaner's, the company's second in Detroit, according to the release.
An attorney representing the development group and one of the developers, William McCrary of Tennessee, could not be reached for comment.
The Statler Hilton was razed in 2005 ahead of the 2006 Super Bowl.
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http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20140130/NEWS/140139978/boutique-hotel-development-planned-for-former-statler-hilton-site-in
Last edited by animatedmartian; Jan 30, 2014 at 9:03 PM.
Reason: different news source
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