More North End Development being Proposed

[Lowell]

With the Cultural Center to Downtown area exploding and housing demand growing developers have been eyeing and making moves in the the North End and Milwaukee Junction districts. The following was announced today in Crains.

Developer plans project in Detroit's North End neighborhood

"According to the application, the first phase of the project would redevelop several properties in the area, including a building at 2831 E. Grand Blvd. into a music recording studio; shared and freelance manufacturing and equipment storage space at 6465 St. Antoine St.; a product design hub with a furniture design and fabrication center and live-work space at 6540 St. Antoine St.; a distribution center and retail showroom with live-work studios at 575 E. Milwaukee Ave.; and a café with a shipping and packaging design center at 2841 E. Grand Blvd.

The company plans to buy and renovate more properties in the future “to entice and enable additional developers and entrepreneurs to utilize the proposed district to do the same.”

The application says the project will create about 40 full-time jobs, 20 part-time jobs and about 30 short-term construction jobs."

Town Real Estate is also the company behind a planned $35 million to $40 million mixed-use development just outside of the Eastern Market area with plans for a 170,000-square-foot residential and/or hotel building consisting of 154 apartments and/or 160 hotel rooms plus 28 commercial tenant spaces."


Photo by CoStar Group Inc.
"A three-block redevelopment in the North End neighborhood calls for this 36,000-square-foot building at 6540 St. Antoine St. to be converted into a product design hub with a furniture design and fabrication center and live/work space. The building was built in 1929"

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

Sounds like an ambitious undertaking