New 9-story apartment building proposed for downtown Detroit with historic facades

[Airforceguy]

New 9-story apartment building proposed for downtown Detroit with historic facades

A developer is looking to build a new nine-story apartment building in downtown Detroit that would incorporate the facades of two old and empty buildings and raze a third that is thought to be too damaged to save.
The development, dubbed Lofts on Broadway, would replace the interiors of all three buildings with new construction containing the apartments and ground-floor retail space. The side-by-side three-story facades have the addresses 1322 Broadway, 1326 Broadway and 1332-1336 Broadway. The project was given a "notice to proceed" in February 2020 from the Detroit Historic District Commission, although progress stalled amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the approval eventually expired.

Developer Roger Basmajian, president of Basco of Michigan, initially sought to save and refurbish all three historic facades while demolishing each building's interior to make way for the new high-rise. The original plan called for 75 apartments.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...s/70321786007/

[Richard]

Kudos to those within the City working hard to help preserve the uniqueness and character of the city,it’s a uphill battle.

[stinkytofu]

This sounds really cool. Anyone got a rendering anywhere?

[Gistok]

Also would love to see a rendering...

About 20 years ago [long before that Toronto sheikster was thinking about tearing it down]... the People's State Bank Building, the only McKim, Mead & White architectural masterpiece in Detroit, engineers had determined that the 1900 era building was solid enough to hold a 15 story hotel tower atop of the building... but nothing ever became of it.

Ilitches take note... this is what you need to do with your Fine Arts Building facade...

[angry_fred]

This project looks cool, but I checked out the developers website and it was filled with press releases for projects we got excited about pre-covid, and most of them never broke ground.

[southen]

About 20 years ago [long before that Toronto sheikster was thinking about tearing it down]... the People's State Bank Building, the only McKim, Mead & White architectural masterpiece in Detroit, engineers had determined that the 1900 era building was solid enough to hold a 15 story hotel tower atop of the building... but nothing ever became of it.

Very interesting tidbit there. I feel like Bedrock is still trying to figure out what to do with that site. Good to know that there is some flexibility in building up to suit needs other than a bank or event space.

[K-slice]

This project looks cool, but I checked out the developers website and it was filled with press releases for projects we got excited about pre-covid, and most of them never broke ground.

They've done right by their smaller projects, but the larger, more impactful ones are still languishing.

There are some rendering on their website, but I'm guessing they're not accurate as the plan now is to tear down the largest of the 3 buildings and re-build the façade.
https://bascomi.com/portfolio/1322-1332broadway/