Very cool i'd been waiting to see a mock up with the hudsons and monroe towers, the view down Grand River is going to be a completely different ball game with the Book cleaned up too.
I came across some old updates on the Packard Plant I hadn't seen so I thought i'd slip them in with a Milwaukee Junction update.
Emagine chairman makes a move in New Center the "we kahn do it" building is too small for a theater but the movie theater chain has expressed interest for a while now in opening a theater in Detroit. Perhaps Milwaukee Junction area is being eyed for a future project.
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Emagine chairman, other investors buy 'We Kahn Do It' mural building
By KIRK PINHO
Crain's Detroit Business
December 09, 2017
-Paul Glantz, other investors bought the building in October
-Plans for the vacant property not yet determined
-Building's "We Kahn Do It!" mural created in 2010
The chairman of Troy-based Emagine Entertainment Inc. is one of the investors who bought a Milwaukee Junction building that sports a playful mural on its eastern side.
Paul Glantz confirmed he and other investors in 318 East Milwaukee LLC bought the three-story, 13,000-square-foot building with a mural saying "We Kahn Do It," a nod to renowned architect Albert Kahn, who designed some of Detroit's most famous buildings.
Glantz said he and his investment partners have not determined what the plans are for the vacant building, which Washington, D.C.-based real estate information service CoStar Group Inc. says was built in 1923. It is at East Milwaukee and Brush Street.
Glantz has been looking at Detroit locations for a new Emagine theater, but the site the East Milwaukee building sits on is too small to accommodate one, Glantz said.
BLAC Detroit reported in August 2013 that the mural was designed by Detroit Lives! LLC, which does Murals, art exhibits and clothing in the city. Philip Lauri, executive producer of Detroit Lives!, said it was painted in October and November 2010.
Lauri said he is not aware of any legal protections preventing the destruction of the mural.
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http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...mural-building
However if they are looking in the area for a future theater project the Packard Plant would certainly fit the bill for space requirements. Although i'm not sure how practical the space would be for a conversion to a modern movie theater perhaps the best case scenario would be a Emagine centered mixed use development on E. Grand Blvd to help bridge the development gap between New Center and the Packard.
The big problem with the Packard has been its position on E. Grand past the massive Poletown Plant while distance wise it isn't far but is seperated from areas of redevelopment by industry. The Detroit Inner Circle Greenway is funded/under-construction all the way into southern Hamtramck up to the GM Hamtramck-Detroit Assembly Plant changes the calculation for the area the part of the Dequindre Cut between Hamtramck and Eastern Market has the potential to be very heavily used and a new Wayne County criminal justice complex at Forest and I-75 which seems all but certain now will also be in the general area bringing many new county employees to the area.
A redevelopment of the Packard Plant and surrounding neighborhood is the holy grail or Moby Dick of Detroit development and i'm not suggesting we're there yet but it's a very exciting prospect. I was doing a little googling and I came across some photos of the Display Groups renovation of Building no. 22 and some pics of the interior work on the admin building from early 2016 and restoration work of an elevator shaft from 2015 that I wasn't aware of.
This is exterior Display Groups newly renovated H.Q. in building 22 of the Packard Plant complex. Pic by Crain's
A still shot from a WDIV story of the Display Group workshop space.
Restoration of an elevator. The Old Motor had a couple updates from mid 2015 & early 2016 this is the newest update i've come across.
The admin building interior work just beginning. (2015-2016)