Restored

The restored cornice of the David Whitney Building.

Davenport Apartments

The Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corp's rehabilitation of the Davenport Apartments (1905) is wrapping up.

(June, 20014) 

(December, 2014)

Detroit Institute of Music Education

An earlier renovation of the Bamlet Building (September, 2004)

The Bamlet Building (May, 2014)

The Bamlet Building (December, 2014)

Schweizer's Place

General Motors' real estate arm demolished one of its recently purchased Rivertown properties earlier this month. Riverfront Holdings Inc. leveled the 130 year old Schweizer's building for future improvement. The building recently housed Vondie’s on the River.

Park Avenue Building in Danger of Being Demolished

The Albert Kahn designed Park Avenue Building (1922) has been targeted for demolition by the city of Detroit's law department. The city has declared the building at the corner of Park and Adams to be "the very definition of irreparable harm to the public" in a court filing this week.

The building is owned by property speculator Ralph Sachs who is the person that demolish the neighboring Hotel Charlivoix in 2013 after years of neglect.

The city has asked Wayne Court Circuit Court Judge Robert Colombo Jr. to declare the site a public danger and order that the building be demolished immediately. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for September 19.

Mt. Elliot Park Reboot

(November, 2006)

(July, 2014)

 (November, 2006)

(July, 2014)

Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects

The Dawn of Justice

Set construction for the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is underway in Corktown. The production has set up shop across the street from the Executive Plaza Building on Sixth Street.

Rising on Brush *Update*

A new location for Gameday Detroit is being constructed at the corner of Brush just north Gratiot.

About Face

Developers of what was to be the Midtown Professional Building at the corner of Stimson and Woodward have changed their minds. Instead of a five-story, 75,000 square foot office building, Queen Lillian II LLC will be erecting 68 apartments on the site with an additional 25,000 square feet dedicated to retail space. The development will also include a 230-space parking deck.

Roesink Stadium

A fund-raising effort is now underway to restore Hamtramck's Roesink Stadium, one of few surviving ballparks from baseball's Negro League era. 

Two different incarnations of Detroit Stars along with the Detroit Wolves called Roesink Stadium home. The stadium opened in 1930 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2012. A historical marker will be placed at the site during a ceremony on August 14.

If you are interested in volunteering or donating to the effort you can contact Gary Gillette, president of the Friends of Historic Hamtramck Stadium, at GGillette@247Baseball.com.

(October, 2007)

(October, 2007)