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Old Posted Sep 15, 2014, 1:05 PM
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Some kind of tangentially related news:

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Track signing ceremony planned for M-1 Rail project in Detroit

By David Shephardson | The Detroit News

September 15, 2014

Detroit — Two 5-foot sections of steel streetcar tracks will be signed during a ceremony celebrating the public-private partnership behind Detroit’s M-1 Rail project.

The track signing is scheduled Monday morning at Grand Circus Park.

It will follow a keynote address by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx. Gov. Rick Snyder, Mayor Mike Duggan and other officials also will be on hand to tout M-1 Rail’s new $12.2 million federal grant to help finish the 3.31-mile streetcar project.

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Detroit joins list of immigrant-friendly cities

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September 15, 2014

Detroit — The city of Detroit is joining a national initiative aimed at creating immigrant-friendly environments.

The Detroit Immigration Task Force plans to announce Monday that Detroit will participate in “Welcoming Cities & Counties.”

It joins New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities in the program that also looks to maximize opportunities for economic growth through immigration.

Task force members include immigrant community leaders, nonprofit service providers and immigration experts. The group has been working since January to draft a comprehensive city-wide plan to help Detroit become a diverse, inclusive and global city.

City Councilwoman Raquel Castañeda-López says “Detroit’s immigrants historically played a key role in making the city one of the greatest in the world.”
BTW, recent track welding for M-1 Rail courtesy of their facebook page:

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Detroit's lost little pieces of history are coming back.

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Michael H. Hodges. Detroit News Fine Arts Writer. SEPTEMBER 17, 2014.




The lions are coming back.

Starting next week, workmen from Ram Construction will begin hauling 26 lion heads up 19 stories to the top of the David Whitney Building on Grand Circus Park. The heads, each 3 feet across, are attached to new cornices, which will restore the ones ripped off in an ill-advised modernization in the 1950s.

It’s a sign of where Detroit real estate is going these days. Developers, like Detroit’s Roxbury Group redoing the David Whitney, are suddenly willing to re-create lost architectural detailing, from cornices to elaborate entranceways, that just a few years ago would have been dismissed as too expensive.

The Whitney building was built in 1915 by celebrated Chicago architect Daniel Burnham. The new cornice line and lion heads were molded in a Plymouth warehouse by Glassline Inc., where they’re also re-creating the original 67-foot-wide rooftop sign with the building’s name.

Glassline is a small firm dealing in fiberglass-reinforced plastic that suddenly finds itself swimming in contracts for Detroit projects. Owner Guy Kenny still can’t get over the sudden surge.

“Up until two years ago, there was nothing,” he says, “apart from a couple projects and what we did on the Book-Cadillac Hotel,” where Glassline recreated a cornice-like “water table” that wraps around the 23rd floor.

These days? “It’s spooky how much we’ve got going on.”

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Whole Foods seeking second Detroit store

Nathan Bomey, Detroit Free Press Business Writer
September 18, 2014

Whole Foods is seeking a location for a second store in Detroit, co-CEO Walter Robb said this morning.

Robb said the premium grocery chain wants to expand its presence in Detroit after experiencing "a truly vibrant community." The company's first Detroit store opened in midtown in 2013.

"Our store is a tremendous success," he said on Day 1 of the Detroit Homecoming conference.

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That's an interesting idea. I don't think Corktown or even the CBD are ready for a Whole Foods yet. The only other options would be somewhere on the East Riverfront close to Indian Village or somewhere in the Techtown area to draw from North Midtown and the New Center area. I think the East Riverfront option would be more ideal as it may even draw some people from the Grosse Pointes. There's plenty of money in that area (Indian Village, West Village, Joseph Berry, Lafayette Park, Rivertown, etc., and if other chain stores can survive on East Jefferson, so could a Whole Foods. I think one option would be to just move into the old Farmer Jack at St. Jean. It's not far from the Grosse Pointes or Indian Village, though obviously the immediate area isn't particularly great. Another option would be to carve out some space for them on the Uniroyal site. It's further from the Grosse Pointes, but in a much more viable location.
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That's an interesting idea. I don't think Corktown or even the CBD are ready for a Whole Foods yet. The only other options would be somewhere on the East Riverfront close to Indian Village or somewhere in the Techtown area to draw from North Midtown and the New Center area. I think the East Riverfront option would be more ideal as it may even draw some people from the Grosse Pointes. There's plenty of money in that area (Indian Village, West Village, Joseph Berry, Lafayette Park, Rivertown, etc., and if other chain stores can survive on East Jefferson, so could a Whole Foods. I think one option would be to just move into the old Farmer Jack at St. Jean. It's not far from the Grosse Pointes or Indian Village, though obviously the immediate area isn't particularly great. Another option would be to carve out some space for them on the Uniroyal site. It's further from the Grosse Pointes, but in a much more viable location.
I agree. I'm going to guess they might put it the First National Building, where that other grocery store was supposed to go. I am amazed how quickly downtown, midtown, corktown, etc., are taking off.
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I can't wait to ride the streetcars once things are said and done. I love Detroit, always have. As a Chicagoan, I've been traveling between the 2 cities all my life. I have family there and honestly wouldn't mind moving there one day.
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Not really new news, but a nice look at the names and articulate entrances to apartment buildings around Midtown.

http://elmoore.com/2014/09/09/meet-t...-the-el-moore/
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WSUPG celebrates groundbreaking of $68 million medical office building
09.22.2014



Officials from the Wayne State University Physician Group, along with The Ferchill Group and Midtown Project LLC, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony today celebrating the construction of a new five-story, $68 million medical office building and parking structure at 3750 Woodward Ave. in Detroit.

Expected to open in 2016, the 153,000-square-foot medical building will centralize providers from nearby Detroit-based WSUPG clinics. The facility is projected to accommodate more than 200,000 patient appointments annually for primary and specialty care such as internal medicine, ophthalmology, women’s health, neurosurgery and various diagnostic services.

A four-story parking structure with about 650 spaces for patients and providers will be constructed on the adjacent lot. Ground-level retail space is planned, with additional tenants to include fast-casual dining.

The project site, formerly known as the Professional Plaza, is owned by Midtown Project LLC. Wayne State University Physician Group, southeast Michigan’s largest physician organization, has been a tenant of the Professional Plaza for more than 12 years. The new building will serve as clinical and medical office space, replacing an outdated and undersized facility. The neighboring 12-story “hammer and nail” building is being independently developed.

The medical office building was designed by Neumann/Smith Architecture and features modern sloping glass, aluminum sunscreens, enclosed glass staircases and an accessible third-level roof terrace for staff. Fifth Third Bank is providing financing for the project, and T.H. Marsh Construction Co. of Royal Oak is the construction management firm.

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Why or why did they orient this building the way they did? lol They basically knew that M-1 Rail was liking to come by this way, and yet they still turned the building to the side.
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My guess is that either there was something eventually planned on the other half of the site or that there's going to be an entrance on John R that allows easy access to DMC. Not that I think it makes that big of a difference anyway.
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Why or why did they orient this building the way they did? lol They basically knew that M-1 Rail was liking to come by this way, and yet they still turned the building to the side.
I've been dying to see a site plan for this since it was announced. While it will likely be underwhelming, this site had vast potential. Imagine if they extended Seldon and Parsons to John R, restoring the street grid and killing the mega block...
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Stumble across an MEDC video for Orleans Landing. I noticed Guoin Mews Street is not in the aerial rendering.

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Midtown will never be urban with all this fucking parking.
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Midtown will never be urban with all this fucking parking.
Orleans Landing is in Rivertown (the area east of the Ren Cen). Though your complaint is still valid.

To be fair, this does create a walkable streetwall. Aside from the Adventure center parking lot, the only street with parking lots fronting it is Woodbridge.
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Once the streetcar gets extended along East Jefferson, they could easily develop the interior of the blocks into more housing.
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New York builder buys Ciccarelli's building, plans creative loft-style space
By Kirk Pinho. September 29, 2014. Crain's Detroit Business.



The 85,000-square-foot building that houses Ciccarelli’s 22 Sports Bar on its first floor has sold to an out-of-state construction company for $1.12 million.

Dan Callaway, the broker at Bloomfield Hills-based Forum Group Commercial Real Estate LLC who represented Jamaica, N.Y.-based Damo Construction Co. Inc., said the company plans to turn the warehouse building into creative loft-style office space within the next 18 months.

Plans are in the works to add more windows to the 109-year-old building on the northwest corner of Cass Avenue and West Congress Street.

Callaway said this is Damo’s first building purchase in Michigan, but the company has other real estate holdings in the New York area.

“We have a huge increase in out-of-state investors right now looking to Detroit with the high amount of growth we are experiencing,” Callaway said.

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I think this is what, the 2nd or 3rd company specifically from NYC to buy first-time in Detroit? Not to mention first-time buyers from elsewhere.
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Once the streetcar gets extended along East Jefferson, they could easily develop the interior of the blocks into more housing.
I was just thinking they could also possibly deck over that parking 1 level and build some interior midrise stuff. That would be pretty awesome actually. You'd have to the 2-3 buildings facing the street and some interior 5-8 story apartments.
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Texas developers purchase New Center buildings, plan loft-style residential units
By Kirk Pinho. October 5th, 2014.



Just south of the TechTown Detroit building in the New Center area of Detroit, Jerome Huez and his development partners from Texas are planning for 24-27 loft-style residential units to hit the market next fall.

Huez, president of Detroit-based real estate brokerage The Loft Warehouse Inc., said his company will be responsible for securing financing and filling the units at Second Avenue at York Street where he and senior Loft Warehouse agent Matt O'Laughlin closed on the purchase of four buildings for $1.3 million last week.

Bill Ball of Austin, Texas-based real estate development firm Kemp Properties, and Jerry Lindenmuth, owner of Austin-based oil and gas company Lindenmuth & Associates Inc., paid cash for the buildings and are funding whatever redevelopment costs are not covered by things like tax incentives, O'Laughlin said.

It's undetermined whether they will be apartments or condominiums, but the one- and two-bedroom units are expected to be between 850 and 1,250 square feet and could offer some unique features.

"We are playing around with having green alleys back there and potential rooftop decks," O'Laughlin said.

The development has not yet been named, Huez said.



Totaling 70,000 square feet, the buildings are a 30,000-square-foot warehouse at 5960 Second Ave., which will be for the lofts; an 8,000-square-foot warehouse at 5924-5928 Second Ave.; a 10,000-square-foot retail storefront at 5940 Second Ave.; and a 22,000-square-foot warehouse at 463 York St.

O'Laughlin said there are two options for the building at 5924 Second -- tearing it down because it's in disrepair and making it a surface parking lot, or rehabbing it and turning it into a restaurant or a bar.

The building at 5940 Second will be used as interior parking with spaces for the residents, while the building at 463 York could be redeveloped as single-tenant office space or also used for more lofts.

The loft redevelopment is expected to cost about $2.7 million, although total project cost has not yet been determined.

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