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Pictures from around the new Mike Ilitch School of Business


Mike Ilitch School of Business by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr


Side of Mike Illitch School of Business by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

Soon to be The Alhambra hotel in the forefront on the left; Mike Ilitch School of Business in the background, Little Caesars Arena, and the Hotel Eddystone with the Temple mixed development beginning.

District Detroit in Construction by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr


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Mike Ilitch School of Business construction by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr
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Cordish is coming to Detroit with a 20+ Floor tower overlooking Comerica Park.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article..._medium=social
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Sources: Residential high-rise with more than 20 stories planned near Comerica Park
Jan 29, 2018 at 4:39 AM by KIRK PINHO

High-rise would overlook Comerica Park, sources say It's one of several towers planned or being considered around downtown by others Part of the Ilitch family's District Detroit project
Source: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...s-planned-near
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Old Posted Jan 31, 2018, 3:23 PM
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If they do end up pulling this off aesthetically it would be a big win Detroit is second only to Broadway as biggest theater district in the country in terms of number of seats. The Fox and Fillmore are the heart of the theater district and part of the gateway to downtown with the demand being there now i'm glad to see that something is being considered now.




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Detroit auto show wraps up with 756,397 attendees during public days

By Crain's Detroit Business
January 28, 2018

More than 5,000 media from 60 countries were credentialed for the 2018 North American International Auto Show.

-2018 attendance up slightly over 2017 show
-NAIAS brings $480 million in economic impact to region
-Charity Preview raised nearly $5.1 million


The 2018 North American International Auto Show wrapped up Sunday with a total of 756,397 attendees over its nine public days, show officials reported. That's up slightly over last year's 755,229.

The highest attended day of the public show, which kicked off Jan. 20 at Cobo Center in Detroit , was Saturday at 124,205.

Total ticketed attendance for this year's show was 809,161 — including The Gallery, industry preview days, the Charity Preview and public show — topping last year's 806,554.

This year's show had an estimated regional economic impact of $480 million, David Sowerby, managing director, portfolio manager at Ancora in Bloomfield Hills, said in a news release. That's the equivalent to holding nearly two NFL Super Bowls a year in Detroit, he said.

The Charity Preview on Jan. 19 raised nearly $5.1 million for children's charities in Detroit. In all, nearly 13,000 people attended the black-tie gala, recognized as the largest annual single-night fundraiser in the world. The Charity Preview has raised nearly $118 million since the Detroit Auto Dealers Association established the gala 42 years ago.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...ng-public-days



Crain's had a model of the Cass & York condominiums.


http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...-pricing-highs





There has been a good amount of good press coming in the Gaurdian did a piece called Dazzled with Detroit and Thrillist named Michigan the best state in the nation. Lonely Planet naming Detroit as number two best place to visit in the world is also often cited as one of the reasons for the positive media coverage as well.


https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nat...-best-to-worst

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2...ars-live-music
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Old Posted Jan 31, 2018, 3:49 PM
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OH snap curbed has an interesting piece a fitness company released heat maps which were correlated into running and biking maps of the core area of Metro Detroit.

Edit; of you look in the water it looks like you can see swimming and kayaking or canoeing not sure tho.


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Heat map reveals Detroit’s popular running and biking routes
Or popular routes for Strava users

By Robin Runyan
Curbed Detroit
Jan 30, 2018

Running Map




Last November, fitness tracker Strava released a heat map of popular running, biking, and activity routes from its users. Yes, users can opt out of the tracking GPS, but for those who leave it on, we can use the heat map to see popular routes pretty much everywhere. Maybe too many places—Strava recently took some heat for revealing a little too much about locations and activity on military bases (oops).

What can we see here in Detroit? Not too many surprises. As far as running goes (on the map above), we see a lot of activity in the downtown core and down Woodward. We can also see a lot of running around Belle Isle, with some in the Villages. The Riverwalk is also, clearly, one of the most popular routes.

We can also see activity in Hamtramck, Corktown, Midtown, and the Palmer Park area.

Biking has far more activity throughout the city.


Biking Map


Here, we can see the same popular areas (the Riverwalk, Belle Isle, the Dequindre Cut), but also with the addition of the major roads or spokes in Detroit—Michigan, Grand River, and Gratiot really show up on this map.
https://detroit.curbed.com/2018/1/30...-biking-routes
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Anyone know if the WSU Medical School plan is completely scrapped?

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WCCCD to break ground on downtown Detroit health and wellness facility

By TYLER CLIFFORD
Crain's Detroit Business
February 01, 2018



This updated rendering shows the planned two-story, 80,000-square-foot health and wellness center affixed to the downtown campus of Wayne County Community College District in Detroit.


Wayne County Community College District will break ground today on a $25 million health and wellness center at its downtown campus.

The project will add an 80,000-square-foot building at Fort and Fifth streets that will offer training for students in fields such as biotechnology, hydroponics, fitness training, sports management and more, it said in a news release. The development is a part of WCCCD's capital reinvestment plan, Crain's reported.

"We have always worked to provide pathways to better lives for our students and the construction of this site allows us to add tremendous value to the region in addition to training students who both want and need to excel in their careers," WCCCD Chancellor Curtis L. Ivery said in the release. "City Center will also provide a home for the college's Wildcat basketball team along with other athletic activities and entertainment events."

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The center is scheduled for a spring 2019 completion.

WCCCD has six campus locations serving more than 70,000 credit and non-credit students annually across 36 cities and townships.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...lness-facility



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Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. to open multi-use art, retail hub

By ANNALISE FRANK
Crain's Detroit Business
February 01, 2018



The nonprofit Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. is opening the Grand River Annex in a 1,400-square-foot building it previously owned at 19556 Grand River Ave.


-Grandmont Rosedale nonprofit to open Grand River Annex
-Grand opening Feb. 10
-It will house Norwest Gallery of Art


A new food, art, music and retail hub is set to open Feb. 10 in northwest Detroit.

The nonprofit Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp. is heading the Grand River Annex in a 1,400-square-foot building it owns at 19556 Grand River Ave.

The Annex is funded for a year through a Kresge Foundation community revitalization grant of a little mroe than $100,000, said Larissa Richardson, program manager for Grandmont Rosedale.

Overall, it will be "centered around community engagement," Richardson said, aiming to draw in neighborhood residents.

The nonprofit will use the space for food- and retail-related events, and it will house the new Norwest Gallery of Art.

The gallery of African-American and African art from local and international artists will host monthly rotating exhibitions starting with "Détroit Noir: A Celebration of The Black Aesthetic" during Black History Month, which begins today. The gallery's name is a tribute to the Norwest Theater on Grand River, said Asia Hamilton, its founder and curator, in a news release.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...art-retail-hub
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^ By the looks of the rendering, the WCCCD building will be adjacent and connected to the existing building, at the site of a current parking lot, here.
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Old Posted Feb 3, 2018, 7:27 PM
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Updates of Little Caesars new HQ

A look across Woodward shows the Little Caesars new Headquarters construction along with the LCA in the background to the right.

New Little Caesars Headquarters with the LCA in the background by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

The new Little Caesars Headquarters. You can catch a peak to what the side facing the Fillmore Theater looks like.

Showing alley between Little Caesar's Headquarters and The Fillmore by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

The side facing the Fox Theater

New Little Caesars Headquarters by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr


Bridge from Little Caesar's new HQ to the Fox Theater (their existing HQ) by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

Trying to show just how curved that glass is.

IMG_5948 by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

Pizza shaped glass slices

Pizza slice- shaped windows by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

The Detroit Life Building being renovated on the left. The rear of the LC HQ is visible behind the red Bleinheim building.

Detroit Life Building and rear of Little Caesar's headquarters by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

Rear of new Little Caesars Headquarters by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr

The old Bleinheim Building and the new Little Caesars Headquarters definitely look attached. I wonder if LC HQ will renovate and use the space within the Bleinheim..
Rear of new Little Caesars Headquarters by Keith Lindsey Jr, on Flickr
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The old Bleinheim Building and the new Little Caesars Headquarters definitely look attached. I wonder if LC HQ will renovate and use the space within the Bleinheim.
That would be wonderful to see. I like how much glass is on the back of the LC HQ.
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Old Posted Feb 3, 2018, 9:59 PM
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What to do with City Airport?

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Study: $83M brings back City Airport passenger service

Christine Ferretti
The Detroit News
Feb. 2, 2018





Detroit — Commercial passenger service could return to the city’s financially troubled municipal airport, but it would require an $83 million overhaul, a new report shows.

The investment scenario is the most costly among several outlined in the first phase of a study commissioned by the city for the future use of the Coleman A. Young International Airport.

The 40-page report, produced by a team of consultants and airport experts, found at a minimum the airport needs tens of millions in upgrades for basic operations as it tries to compete in southeast Michigan’s ailing general aviation market.

The east side airport, just over five miles from downtown, is the region’s second busiest and the subject of an exhaustive study to determine its best future use.

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The airport also hasn’t gone unnoticed by powerful entrepreneurs such as Alibaba founder Jack Ma, according to Duggan.

During a meeting with Ma over the prospect of Alibaba adding a distribution center in America, Ma said his primary interest in Detroit was “what about at City Airport?” Duggan said. The company did not respond to a request for comment about its level of interest in the airport.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...udy/110062586/
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Knowing Olympia, they'll knock down the Blenheim for some executive parking surface lot or something, as they seem to be back up to their old ways in the Cass Corridor. It's like deja vu.

BTW, did Olympia ever announce anything about the Detroit Life Building renovation? I've heard nothing about it, but may have very well missed an announcements prior to my coming back here in the spring of last year.

In other news, we finally get some more detail nailed down on what's to be built on the Joe. Apparently, the deal specifices a large hotel with a 30-story height limits - I imagine this is to protect inland riverviews from other high-rises - and at least 300 rooms. They then again specify the rest of the site - which includes the Joe's garage - could then be a mix of office, residential, retail, etc...I'm a bit confused about this as Crowne Plaza is literally planning a 30-story expansion a block or two away and the Foundation just opened up in the area. It seems like the downtown is beyond being over-hoteled at the moment, especially when you consider that Shinola, the Metropolitan and others are due to come online.

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Demolition countdown begins for Detroit's Joe Louis Arena

By JC Reindl | Detroit Free Press

February 3, 2018

he City of Detroit has until May to start demolition work for now-empty Joe Louis Arena with a goal of getting the land ready for a new, large hotel that would reshape the downtown riverfront.

That deadline is laid out in a 3-year-old agreement between the city and one of its former bondholders, which received future ownership and development rights to the arena property in exchange for accepting big losses during Detroit's 2013-14 municipal bankruptcy.

The deal requires the city — which built and still owns The Joe — to begin the demolition process within 90 days of the expiration of the arena's long-term lease with the Red Wings and the Ilitch family's Olympia Entertainment.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...na/1088694001/
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As recently as a couple of years ago there was talk among city officials and Cobo officials about continuing lack of competitiveness of Cobo lacking was cited along with the relitivly small at the time for a downtown of a region this size even though at that point the market was already quickly growing. There's also the argument that Detroit was underhoteled for a region and city its size downtown and while that is still true most likely we've sucessfully absorbed a lot of new rooms already the tourist industry is very cyclical and does make ya wonder how many rooms is a good equilibrium.

The lastest numbers I could find for the year 2016 all indicators were up as far as the occupancy was over 60% for all metro markets even downriver. Perhaps the fact that in the city the average price per night had been climbing and importantly revenue per room was up 3.8% are the metrics that are driving the push.

Its not just downtown that's seen a huge boom in hotels a number of Oakland County cities Such as Farmington Hills (5 in the past 4 years), Troy, the Woodward corridor and others especially in newer burbs. But even inner-ring burbs like Southfield and Dearborn have seen renovations new construction with more projects planned.

Now tourism is up and so are occupancy rates and profits this is projected to continue but a overheating of the national economy could potentially put hotels in a difficult position with everything planned. Michigan tourism up until the past several years was operating at less than potential and Metro Detroit and especially downtown had traditionally been one of the most undeserved markets.

Perhaps the bet is right but the recent experience of the recession shows that over saturation during those times leads to a painful collapse of said market, so I share the nerves of anyone concerned.


Here's a link to 2017 report on the hotel market. https://www.madonna.edu/pdf/Detroit_Hotel_Industry.pdf

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Speaking of more details on high rise projects Crain's has a graphic of the site plan for Woodward between the LCA and CoPa along with the nearby area.

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Map reveals new District Detroit details
Nearly 200,000 square feet of retail space, a hotel, 2 high-rise buildings among plans

By KIRK PINHO
Crain's Detroit Business
February 04, 2018




-Aerial map obtained by Crain's shows 200,000 square feet of new retail space
-Two new high-rise towers planned near Comerica Park


Two high-rise buildings are planned to flank Comerica Park.

The towers, overlooking the home of the Detroit Tigers, are just a few of the developments in the Ilitch family's District Detroit project revealed in an aerial map that shows the latest vision for what surrounds the 41,299-seat baseball stadium.

In addition, a new hotel where Hockeytown Cafe now stands and retail flanking both sides of Woodward Avenue's passage over I-75 are planned, according to the map, which Crain's obtained last week.

All told, it includes nearly 200,000 square feet of new retail space, plus the previously undisclosed hotel, a "tech store" and a market, in addition to the two high-rise buildings referred to as Montcalm Tower and Adams Tower.


For good measure Crain's threw a skyline pic from prolly around November of the area.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...etroit-details
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Not sure when this happened exactly but it looks like Detroit got an update on google's 3D maps.
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BTW, did Olympia ever announce anything about the Detroit Life Building renovation? I've heard nothing about it, but may have very well missed an announcements prior to my coming back here in the spring of last year.
I've been noticing more and more that projects in the city haven't been getting news coverage like they used to. Various projects have begun without any sort of announcement. Detroit Life was one of those projects.
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It's gotten to the point where we might need to make a list of high-rise proposals/visions. We'd kind of heard about the Montcalm Tower when they were planning district Detroit. The Adams Tower, however, seems to have come out of nowhere, and I'm SO happy to hear about that location. Given it's location both on Grand Circus Park and directly across from Comerica, it's always been a super prominent site that's been obviously underused. It's going to be highly visible from Comerica.

Needless to say that the Live! Block south of Montcalm was needed yesterday. Glad to see them take out this egregiously placed set of surface lots for this.

Still, Olympia is going to have to do better than what they are currently doing in the Cass Corridor. They are being allowed to make some of the same mistakes they made with Comerica which this new plan are just now addressing. They've got to do a smarter job with the development of parking. Not only are they making the mistake of bulldozing historic buildings for surface lots, but apparently, the surface lots were built out of compliance with city zoning.
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It's gotten to the point where we might need to make a list of high-rise proposals/visions.
This would be great to have.

Anyone know what the status is of the old Wayne County building that was sold a few years ago? There was a lot of scaffolding on it when I was there this past summer. Also, David Stott?
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This would be great to have.

Anyone know what the status is of the old Wayne County building that was sold a few years ago? There was a lot of scaffolding on it when I was there this past summer. Also, David Stott?
The Wayne County Building and David Stott are both still under renovation. I am unsure what the future plans are for the Wayne County Building, but David Stott is going to be apartments mainly.
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