New building planned on the site of the former Marie Apartments building on Selden St

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Last week, the city issued a demolition permit for the former Marie Apartments building at 438 Selden St. at Cass Avenue, a step which will clear the way for a new mixed-use development by the Detroit-based Ferlito Group LLC, which plans to begin razing the 1924 building on Monday.
Replacing the vacant and blighted 16,500-square-foot building: a new 22,000-square-foot building with a dozen for-sale condominiums, a new office for Ferlito Group and a new high-end restaurant, said Mike Ferlito, project developer for Ferlito Group.

About 30,000 reclaimed bricks from the razed building will be used by Detroit-based Green Garage LLC in a brand new community park that’s expected to open by Christmas, according to Ken Flaherty, who is procuring reclaimed material for the park next to its El Moore building at Second Avenue and Alexandrine Street, a little over a block northwest of the new Ferlito building.

Also pretty cool: the entrance to the park, dubbed El Moore Gardens [[for now), will be made out of a [[reclaimed) water tower currently sitting on the property, which consists of two former city-owned lots, Flaherty said

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