"The Brooke" development breaks ground in Southwest Detroit

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The 1200 Sixth St properties are a huge dead zone that's been "for sale" for too many years. http://www.1200sixthstreet.com/

The west side of Downtown is lagging behind when it comes to development for several reasons, too much surface parking being one of the major issues.

Man, how old has this proposed development been around? The parking situation is hideous. Still too much surface parking space. In Atlanta, about every multistory residential complex has a parking structure integrated with the complex. Why in Detroit is that concept so foreign? Think about how many more residential units you could build if Detroit developers just built parking structures with them.

I would love to see them reopen Brooklyn Street to Howard Street and put townhouses along that new section as well as along Sixth Street in that section. I think the two towers need to be torn down and turned into a park. No one is going to refurbish those towers for residential use. Well, that's my two cents.