And the beat goes on. Gilbert's invasion of Ilitchville's sphere of influence gets finalized.

"Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock Management Services LLC and three other companies, including two national real estate developers, are part of a joint venture that has been selected to build a mixed-use development of primarily multifamily housing on about 25 acres of land in Eastern Market and around Brush Park on the site of the former Brewster-Douglass housing projects, the city of Detroit said Saturday.

When all is said and done, the multiple-phase project by Choice Detroit LLC is expected to include 900 to 1,000 units of housing ranging from low-income to market rate and costing approximately $267 million."

Interesting background to one of the developers Columbia, Md.-based Enterprise Communities Partners, a national developer with significant low-income housing experience...
"This is the only team that brought together a national leader in affordable housing and two African American developers, one Detroit-based, both experienced in affordable housing," said James Arthur Jemison, the city’s director of housing and revitalization, in a statement.

"This team will work with the city and the community to build a mixed-use development that will honor Brewster’s past and provide affordable housing for our future.”

Enterprise has since 1982 created nearly 340,000 homes and invested $18.6 billion nationwide.