A few tidbits on developments planned for the area.
Eastern Market nonprofit's new president has plans for housing, food distribution

"Dave was instrumental in doing a lot of site acquisition, helping with the rezoning of what we call the Food Innovation Zone, the expansion area east and northeast of the historic core of the market," said Dan Carmody, president of Eastern Market Partnership, the parent organization of the EMDC. "Moving forward we want to transition from simply acquiring land. We want to start building stuff or helping others build stuff and helping community groups build capacity to improve their neighborhoods as well."That includes not only the 45,000- to 50,000-square-foot wholesale distribution center, on which construction will start next year — expected to cost about $16 million on one of two sites being considered — but also three new affordable housing projects.
First on the list is a proposal from West Chester, Ohio-based Pivotal, which would build 53 units of workforce housing with one-, two- and three-bedroom units on St. Aubin Street.A second project, which the city says has not yet been finalized, would be Harper Woods-based American Community Developers building affordable housing on a Division Street site near the Dequindre Cut for which there was an RFP. Economic Growth Corp., a Rock Island, Ill.-based developer, also is working on another project several years out, Carmody said.

Carmody also said the partnership is working on things like the E.W. Grobbel Sons Inc.'s plans for the Grobbel's Gourmet Fresh Neighborhood Market and a Sy Ginsberg-branded Jewish-style deli later this year at 2456 Market St.; and Ping Ho's new offshoot of the popular West Village restaurant and butchery Marrow.
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