CityLoft by Somerset Collection on Woodward

[Zacha341]

They were doing jazz, pop and R&B karaoke out in front today [[Saturday) with three young women doing dance skits and routines. Looked like alot of fun... as I drove by a couple times.

Reminder bump

Business for its inaugural event last month was so brisk that CityLoft has nearly doubled its space for this month's event. It now occupies about 7,000 square feet at 1441 and 1433 Woodward, in the Merchants Row building.

When it opens at 10 this morning, CityLoft is expected to include Saks, Sur La Table, Pottery Barn, Paradise Pen, Lilly Pulitzer, Brookstone, Marmi, Au Courant optical, Brooks Brothers, the Gap, Coach, Eddie Bauer and the Detroit Shoppe.

http://www.freep.com/article/2011082...xt|FRONTPAGE|p

[downtownguy]

File this under Skipper's Rule, but according to a business owner on Woodward, the city is negotiating to have the shops expand and occupy all floors of the Elliott Building next year. The Elliott Building already has a storied past in retailing. Built in 1894 by William Elliott, it originally housed Elliott's dry goods store. In 1899, S. S. Kresge Company opened their first store in this location. It's a 6-story building at the south end of the city block where City Loft by Somerset Collection is located now. As I recall, the previous owner lived in New York but was working with Kraemer Design Group to convert it into lofts in the mid 00's. Apparently, the city controls the building now.

I always thought that would have been a great adaptation of the old Hudson's Building, albeit on a much grander scale.

Remember, this is just hearsay, but you hearsaid it here first.