DETROIT | Exchange | 209 FT | 16 FLOORS
 

New Greektown 16-story tower with apartments, condos planned

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https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...condos-planned

City brownfield plan for project (pdf file)

The site is currently a parking lot.

This looks so much like the tower at Division and Ashland in Chicago.

http://chicagomag.com/images/2013/08...W-Division.jpg

Photo: Dennis Rodkin

I really like that this is going up on a surface parking lot.

Agreed. Overall it looks kind of generic. It's okay for a filler project though. Greektown definitely has some gaps that could use towers like these.

Can't tell if the facade is concrete panels or some kind of metal. I think the former would end up looking nice.

The company slated to build this uses an interesting method.

https://www.liftbuild.com/

DETROIT | The Exchange | 16 floors
 

*A plan to build a 16-story residential tower in Detroit's Greektown district.
*The $64.6-million development, called The Exchange, would be built at 338 *Gratiot on a half-acre site that is currently a surface parking lot.
*Construction of The Exchange is scheduled to start in December and the first housing units could be ready in February 2022

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...ng/5863733002/

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...ng/5863733002/

New Free Press article, says this could break ground as early as December, also has a rendering (below)

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2...pjpg&auto=webp

from the rendering (I could be extremely wrong here) but I think it is about 200 feet? give or take

Very nice addition. We can see the red crane at the right at the Hudsons site and the county building to the left across from which will be the future Monroe Blocks. It will be a very nice skyline...

perfect location for this.

I agree

Has anyone been by the site yet? Are there shovels in the ground?

According to the lift build construction firm, the tower will start construction in early 2021

https://www.liftbuild.com/projects/exchange/

The design looks really tacky, but beggars can't be choosers, and this is Detroit after all, so any construction is good news.

lol nobody is begging, demand for apartments in the central city is enormous. You're entitled to your opinion I guess.

I went by yesterday and the parking lot is still being used.

Their website says this is a mixed use project (not sure if it has always said that, I know previous sources have described it as just residential), looks like the first floor will be offices and retail. Website also says they have plans to do an "alley walk experience" connecting Macomb street with the Gratiot Park/Randolph Plaza area that is being developed apparently? It also looks like their website has some new renders, I don't know when they came out, but they haven't been posted here yet:

https://www.liftbuild.com/projects/exchange/

https://www.greektowndetroit.org/pla...ic-development

https://www.liftbuild.com/app/upload...ss_gratiot.jpg

https://www.liftbuild.com/app/upload...tiot_valet.jpg

https://www.liftbuild.com/app/upload...tiot_Brush.jpg

https://www.liftbuild.com/app/uploads/2020/07/Brush.jpg

https://www.liftbuild.com/app/upload...ss_gratiot.jpg

If the demand was enormous , the skyline would have much more cranes.

Recent FAA filing has this at 209ft.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...63002892&row=5