New Midtown Detroit apartments planned for site of idled solar panels

A new four-story apartment building has been proposed in Midtown Detroit on land where there is now a pair of unused solar panel arrays.


The 57-unit building would be built at 3740 Second Ave., next to the existing Brainard Apartments building that was damaged in a February 2020 fire and is just starting to welcome tenants again.


The two solar-panel arrays, which date to the early 2010s, once supplied some electricity to the Brainard Apartments at 484 Brainard. Since the fire, the solar panels have stayed off.


The project's developer is Greatwater Opportunity Capital, which acquired the site and the neighboring fire-damaged Brainard Apartments in late 2020. Greatwater owns several other apartment buildings and planned new housing developments in the area.
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