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“WE ARE BLESSED THAT
DEVELOPERS IN OUR AREA ARE
NOT JUST RIPPING DOWN THE
OLD BUILDINGS BUT RESTORING
THEM TO THEIR PRIOR GLORY”
— ALLAN NACHMAN
oped and sold more than five
years ago. Today, in partnership
with Invest Detroit — an orga-
nization supporting regional
business and real estate projects
to ignite economic growth —
Mosey’s group is working on a
series of big-ticket developments
along Selden Street. Among
them, the former Jefferson
School is being renovated “to
provide creative office and social
impact space for Detroit entre-
preneurs,
” she said.
MDI and its partners will be
bringing new life to the former
Chung’s restaurant, located in
Detroit’s old Chinatown neigh-
borhood. ACD is the owner and
developer that will fully renovate
the long-abandoned structure on
Cass Avenue in anticipation of
bringing in “a number of Asian
chefs to open new restaurant
concepts in the building,
” Mosey
said.
NEW CENTER AREA
Andrew Sherman,
senior manager of
asset and business
development at The
Platform, spoke to
the group about his
company’s projects
in the New Center
area and Midtown. He led the
redevelopment of the origi-
nal Cadillac Sales and Service
building, an Albert Kahn-
designed property from 1920.
Re-opened in 2019, the build-
ing at 6001 Cass boasts 110,000
square feet of office space and
25,000 square feet of first-floor
retail space.
The Platform also trans-
formed Chroma, a nine-
story former industrial storage
building, into an office and
events space in Milwaukee
Junction. The Detroit neigh-
borhood was home to the Ford
Piquette Avenue Plant, where
the Model-T was invented and
first manufactured and then
shipped everywhere on the
nearby train line.
Milwaukee Junction has been
“developed with new restau-
rants and bars — most notably
Oak & Reel, Freya, Kiesling and
Dragonfly — and added retail
and residential apartments,”
Sherman said. “In addition
to our Chroma Building, we
are also renovating a 1920s
Albert Kahn Studebaker Sales
and Service Building at 411
Piquette, attached to the Ford
Piquette Avenue Plant, into 161
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TOP: Civic Companies is currently in the process of redeveloping
the Kaul Glove Building and a series of adjacent historic assets
and parcels of vacant land in Detroit’s oldest extant neighborhood,
Corktown BELOW: Civic Companies is in the process of devel-
oping 64 attainably priced two-bedroom townhouses in a project
known as Scripps District, Woodbridge, Detroit.
COURTESY OF CIVIC COMPANIES
COURTESY OF CIVIC COMPANIES
Andrew
Sherman