Quote Originally Posted by fryar View Post
Not to single you out, Leanna, and not to put too fine a point on it either, but why always lofts? Are those still "hot" or something? I realize there's a bunch of fairly new ones in Detroit, so they were the thing for developers to do at one point, but they're always on the market, it seems.

Also, I would think they would put relatively standard apartments in there, since it's configured as an office building and not a warehouse.
Lofts are the developers way of saving on costs... so many redevelopments in Detroit are tight financially, so the developers do lofts to save a few bucks and for quite a while there was quite the surplus of lofts. There is becoming such a shortage of downtown space now though, that even the lofts are pretty well filled up, even with people who are simply renting.

Right now, downtown could use affordable apartments and perhaps some affordable condos... the condos at the Book Cadillac are too expensive for many who would actually be looking.