DTE purchases Salvation Army Building and lot across from GAR

[emu steve]

the part of downtown where this is happening isnt the most desirable for new residential developments. you need things like the GAR building and potentially this new park to make it more desirable for people to develop. they want food trucks and for this park to be active, if its a success you will see people trying to capitalize on it. right now there is just a whole lot of nothing over there, no harm in putting a park in.

Here is Crain's article which is quite good:

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...estern-detroit

and a quote from that article:

"Berris said DTE CEO Gerry Anderson has said the energy company plans on developing the neighborhood piece by piece and purchasing additional properties as they become available."

I wonder if DTE might be interested in that trapezoid block MGM owns?

By looking at the map, that block seems 'strategic' to DTE to control unused blocks in the area of their 'campus'.