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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