Rosati, Brkovich partner to bring 'lively' Distillery Square to Walkerville

[Margaret's boy]

From the Windsor Star:
"Prominent local business leaders Mike Brkovich and the Rosati Group are partnering on an ambitious multi-use development expected to transform Walkerville's commercial core into the Distillery District envisioned by city politicians.

The Distillery Square project centers around two massive 130-foot-high red-brick "rack" warehouses built in the 1940s to store Hiram Walker and Sons' whiskey that Brkovich purchased 25 years ago.

The partnership recently acquired several other properties in the area of Wyandotte Street East and Argyle Road, including the former Walter D Kelly funeral home at Wyandotte and Devonshire Road, a commercial building at Wyandotte and Argyle, the former Canadian Legion Branch 12 at Argyle and Brant Street, and the Strathcona commercial/residential building [designed by Detroit's own Albert Kahn in 1907] on the northwest corner of Wyandotte and Devonshire where renovations are under way and a tenant-The Twisted Apron restaurant is already signed on.

At the rack warehouse site, the plan is to connect the two warehouses with another building, build another, and create a pedestrian square in the middle, according to Tony Rosati who heads the local company with his brother Nick.
"We're still looking at through the concept and tweaking it. We'll have more information to be released by the end of the year," Rosati said, expressing hope that construction could also start by the end of the year. The uses will include loft-style apartments, office and retail space, restaurants, a boutique hotel and spaces for street vendors and food trucks, he said."