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Wayne State University to add housing; other local colleges gain residents
By CHAD HALCOM. February 14, 206. Crain's Detroit.
Oakland University last expanded its student housing in 2014 with the opening of Oak View Hall; the university has plans to further expand its student housing.
The traditional college experience is having a renaissance in Southeast Michigan, so much so that public universities are planning major investments in new and improved campus housing this year to accommodate the trend.
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Wayne State University hosted a mandatory pre-proposal meeting last week for developers, student housing real estate investment trust executives and others interested in an estimated $100 million new student housing development project. The university is seeking proposals to build two apartment buildings along Anthony Wayne Drive by 2019 on the campus's northwest side and demolish the nearby Helen DeRoy Apartments — a net gain of more than 430 beds for university students.
Proposals are due by March 16. If all goes well, the university hopes to have a final development plan ready for its board of governors to review in September, and open the first phase of new apartments by fall 2018, said Tim Michael, associate vice president of business and auxiliary operations and chief housing officer at Wayne State.
Washington, D.C.-based Brailsford & Dunlavey Inc. is consulting with the university on the project. Michael said Wayne State is looking for a public-private partnership, where a developer would pay to build the project, lease property from the university and possibly act as property manager, to be reimbursed out of future student housing fees.
"We don't anticipate using any tuition or student fees to pay for the project," he said.
Michael estimates about 20 companies sent representatives to last week's meeting — a condition for bidding on the project. Wayne State is also converting the former Thompson Home that once housed its School of Social Work and will offer housing for up to 65 students, and plans a renovation that will add more than 150 new beds to the current Chatsworth Apartments.
All told, the university expects to expand housing capacity from about 3,100 today to 3,760 by 2022, Michael said.
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Blossoms to branch out, bar on tap in storied Midtown space
By SHERRI WELCH. February 14, 2016. Crain's Detroit.
The owners of Birmingham-based florist Blossoms plan to bring a store back to Detroit this spring in the former Willis Showplace Bar building they've owned for more than 30 years in what is now Midtown.
And they've leased the former bar space in the building, a former jazz hot spot shuttered in the mid-1970s for prostitution, to a West Coast investor who plans to reopen it this summer as a bar called Shag.
"We've lived in the city for 35-40 years and seen it at its worst," said Norm Silk, who owns Blossoms with partner Dale Morgan.
"When we moved here ... we had a vision of what it could be. I think we're finally seeing that reality and ... we just wanted to be part of it."
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Silk said he and Morgan have invested about $400,000 since last July to renovate and restore their 1949 Art Moderne building at Third and W. Willis Street.
They put on a new roof and stripped the remodeled elements added to the exterior over the years, along with layers of paint, to reveal the original, enameled steel panels in burgundy, peach and green, Silk said.
"It's not as perfect as if you built something brand new," he said. "It's got little chips, but that's really what Midtown is all about — it's embracing the old and polishing up what's there."
Inside the 4152 storefront Blossoms will occupy and the adjacent retail space at 4154, the building owners installed new bathrooms, plumbing, electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, with Keego Harbor-based Barrett Building Co. serving as contractor.
Renovations are nearly complete, with another inspection set for the end of this month, Silk said, and expected occupancy by mid-March.
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Shinola plans cafe, production space on Selden Street in Midtown
By KIRK PINHO. February 10, 2016. Crain's Detroit.
One of the key steps has been taken toward a 35,000-square-foot redevelopment of three Selden Street buildings in Midtown into a so-called “Innovation Corridor” and up to 20 new apartments.
An entity affiliated with Midtown Detroit Inc. – AG Selden LLC – received Detroit City Council approval Tuesday for an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act district to waive property taxes on a building at 666 Selden St.
Part of the project is expected to be the renovation of a building at 634 Selden into space for Shinola/Detroit LLC with a café as well as manufacturing of music equipment such as headphones, a company spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.
More specifics on that project had not yet been determined, the spokeswoman said.
The building is referred to as the Creamery Building in a Midtown Detroit document submitted to the city as part of the OPRA designation process.
The building at 666 Selden St., referred to in Midtown Detroit document as the Welding Building, is expected to contain restaurant, retail and film production space.
Another building at 644 Selden St. and referred to in the Midtown Detroit document as the Casket Building, is expected to get a third floor that will include 18-20 new residential units, according to the document. The first and second floors would be for retail and production space, according to the document.
Wednesday afternoon, Sue Mosey, executive director of Midtown Detroit, said it was premature to make any specific announcements about future uses of the buildings.
About $1.5 million so far is planned in renovations to the vacant buildings, including updated plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems and windows, the document says.
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