River Rocked!

Two more Riverfront Holdings Inc. properties met the wrecking ball recently, thus completing a demolition trifecta by GM's real estate arm.

Having already leveled Schweizer's Place at the end of 2014, GM completed their future improvement project by demolishing the building that once housed the popular River Rock Cafe and later the less successful McNarney’s Irish Pub>River’s Edge Grille>Club Waterfalls. Also demolished was the adjoining office building at 672 Woodbridge. Suprisingly, both buildings were listed as being built in 1978.

Trumbull Avenue Restoration

It has recently been announced that a restoration effort for the 130 year old beauty on the left will begin this summer. Developer Alex Pereria (The Lorax House) is leading the effort to restore the house on Trumbull Avenue in the Woodbridge neighborhood.

(1976 Place Promo)

Cobo Center Atrium

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.