I did some quick google measuring and calculations. Even with the light court excluded, David Whitney has 3 times the footprint of Broderick. Making the Whitney roughly 300,000sqft to Brodericks 200,000.

That said, 280-310 units means only 1000sqft average per unit, including public hallways, elevators, and ground floor retail space. Saying a hotel room is 400sqft or so, it could be done, but all of the units would have to be about 600sqft 1bdrms and studios.

[[Hi, long time reader, who lived in metro Detroit for 4 years while going to school and finally decided to speak up).