Building Detroit,
Project After Project
Y OU ’ VE ALWAYS ANTICIPATED
EACH OTHER ’ S NEEDS .
D ON ’ T STOP NOW .
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part of each other (and you are). You know exactly
what each other is thinking before it’s said.
With an event as important as this, it never hurts to
discuss your choices and plan ahead. Once you make
prearrangements, there’s never any question about
what you would have wanted... it’s all understood.
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Walter L. Cohen, 71,
of Bloomfield
Township, passed
away on Sunday,
Sept. 30, 2018, of
kidney cancer.
A native Detroiter,
Mr. Cohen devoted a career of 50
years to construction and real estate
development, beginning in college
when he helped at his father’s home
building sites in suburban Detroit.
They were early builders of
multi-family housing in Detroit
when few private companies were
investing in the city. Mr. Cohen
developed the Stroh River Place
apartment community near
Detroit’s riverfront; Freedom Place
near Midtown; and renovated the
Park Shelton into condominiums
and retail space, among other devel-
opments.
His most recent Detroit proj-
ects were DuCharme Place, the
first new apartment building in
Lafayette Park in decades, and
the Detroit Foundation Hotel, an
award-winning hotel and restaurant
that opened last year in the former
historic Detroit Fire Department
Headquarters. He and his father
were local pioneers in senior com-
munities, building and opening
Trowbridge and McDonnell Towers
in Southfield during the 1980s.
Mr. Cohen founded a minor
league hockey team, the Motor City
Mechanics, in 2004. Some of his
happiest times were on his sailboat,
Parlay, especially when he and
a fun-loving crew of friends and
relatives won first place in the Port
Huron to Mackinac Race and sever-
al awards in other races.
He is survived by loving fam-
ily members including children,
Nicholas and wife Michelle, David,
and Laura Beth; his adored grand-
children, Lyla and Eliot; and sister,
Shari; as well as many devoted
brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law,
nieces and nephews, and cousins.
Mr. Cohen was the husband of
the late Margaret “Peggy” Cohen
and the son of the late Arnold and
Phyllis Cohen.
Funeral arrangements were by
the Ira Kaufman Chapel. For those
interested in making a memorial
contribution, the family suggests the
Michigan Chapter of the Crohn’s
and Colitis Foundation, the Friends
of the Bloomfield Township Library,
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra or
a charity of your choice.
www.thedorfmanchapel.com
30440 Twelve Mile Road
Farmington Hills • MI 48334
248.406.6000
TOLL FREE 1-866-406-6003
Licensed Funeral Directors:
Alan Dorfman, Jonathan Dorfman
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