I love this building. My uncle life-guarded there in the 20's. If I had Dan Gilbert bucks I would have bought it for my downtown residence. I think it would make a great boutique hotel.


^Women's City Club in 2000.

The Women’s City Club building on Park Avenue downtown has a new owner with a likely mixed-use conversion on the way.

But Eric Larson, president and CEO of Bloomfield Hills-based Larson Realty Group and the new owner of the William Buck Stratton-designed building, said those plans aren’t set in stone.

Larson, also CEO of the Downtown Detroit Partnership, is still deciding how to use the 75,000-square-foot building.

Aside from mixed-use with residential and retail, he said he is “looking at a bunch of different concepts, ranging from hotel to [social] club” and others.

Larson said the deal to buy the building — which was constructed in 1924 at 2110 Park at West Elizabeth Street north of Grand Circus Park — for an undisclosed amount closed Friday.
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