Todays Free Press has an excellent summary detailing plans by District Detroit's plans by reporter JC Reindl. Of course a lot of this is contingent on tax abatements and more and the Iltich-Ross team clearly have put their hats out.

Nonetheless this would, if carried out, be a very positive development, particularly as it includes renovation of four existing and beautiful abandoned ruins, most dramatically the long-derelict former Fort Wayne/American Hotel. The following is a summary of the ten new and old properties involved.

6 new buildings in the buildout:


  • 2250 Woodward: A 20-story building to go next to Comerica Park and contain 287 apartments [[20% set aside as “affordable”), 27,000-square feet of ground-floor retail space and a new underground parking garage with 206 spaces. Development cost: 217 million.
  • 2205 Cass: An 18-story residential building with 261 apartments [[20% affordable) and 8,750 square-feet of retail space that would be part of the Detroit Center for Innovation campus. Development cost: $148 million.
  • 2200 Woodward: A newly constructed 17-story office building with ground-floor retail next to Comerica Park, plus a new underground parking garage with 298 spaces. [[It would share the same parking garage 2250 Woodward). Development cost: $321 million.
  • 2305 Woodward or 2300 Cass: Two locations under consideration for an all-new, 22-story office building with ground-floor retail. Development cost: $283 million.
  • 2300 Woodward: A new five-story office building with ground-floor retail. Development cost: $82 million.
  • Hotel next to Little Caesars Arena: A newly constructed 14-story, 290-room hotel next to Little Caesars Arena at 2455 Woodward. Although the building was originally announced last June as an Equinox Hotel, the actual brand of hotel has yet to be determined. Development cost: $192 million.

4 rehabs in the buildout:


  • 408 Temple St.: The long-empty Fort Wayne/American hotel near the Masonic Temple would be redeveloped as an 11-story apartment complex with ground-floor retail. There would be 131 apartments, with 20% affordable. Development cost: $69 million.
  • 2210 Park Ave.: Redevelopment of the old 10-story Detroit Life Building into 16 apartments with ground-floor retail. Development cost: $24 million
  • 2115 Cass: Adaptive reuse of the former Moose Lodge building into a four-story business incubator as part of the Detroit Center for Innovation campus. Development cost: $55 million
  • Fox Hotel: Adaptive reuse of the 10-story Fox Theatre office building at 2211 Woodward to become a 177-room Fox Hotel. The project will not alter the Fox Theatre. Development cost: $123 million.

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