Yet another Boutique Hotel in Midtown - Near "District Detroit"

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Lowell, please merge this with the old "Temple Detroit" discussion.

Developers will have this boutique hotel open by 2020... the former 8 story Standard Accident Insurance Co. building becoming a 100 room boutique hotel, and 70 residential units. The location is 640 Temple St. 1/2 block west of the Masonic Temple, and across the street from the former Kresge Headquarters. The building faces Cass Park. The Albert Kahn designed $72 million developed building will be known as "Temple Detroit".

Although the building doesn't look that large from the park, it goes deep to the next street north of Temple. And 192,000 sq. ft. is 1/2 the square footage of the Guardian Building... so this is a larger building than it looks.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...20/3355211002/

What stands out here is that among the developers is Gretchen Carhartt Valade, Detroit's Jazz matriarch, and a deep pocket donor towards WSU's expanded Hillberry Theatre complex's $75 million performing arts expansion. Ms. Valade is the matriarch to a $1.2 billion Carhartt's family fortune.

Also, this will show that as the Ilitch's own parts of 'District Detroit' languishes... other projects in the area are happening in spite of them.