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Checking In On The City Modern Development In Brush Park

The Brush Park neighborhood is pretty unrecognizable since the work began on Bedrock’s City Modern development.  On Monday I checked out the progress on the two apartment buildings that Sachse Construction is managing inside the City Modern development.  The first building I toured was the senior apartment building at 124 Alfred Street. It is kitty corner to the famous Ransom Gillis House that Rehab Addict’s Nicole Curtis recently did. The apartments in the building will offer...

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PODCAST: Exporting Detroit's Products To The World, Zoo Poo, Brush Park, Buddy's Pizza Rumors & More

This is your Daily Detroit News Byte For Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018: * Brush Park could see another residential development * The Fillmore will go quiet for renovations * Detroit’s Project Greenlight safety program expands to a school * It’s getting more expensive to finance a car * A hot pizza rumor involving Buddy’s right near Comerica Park * The Detroit Zoo is giving away free poo in partnership with Detroit Dirt.. here’s how you get it * And a conversation with Sandra Choi from the...

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Team Behind Grey Ghost Opening New Spot In Brush Park Next Spring

The Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit will be gaining a new bar in the Spring of 2018. The new bar called Second Best will be located at 42 Watson, across the street from Grey Ghost Detroit and within blocks from the new Little Caesars Arena. Four Man Ladder Management is the team behind the new bar. If that name sounds familiar, it is because they are also the owners of Grey Ghost Detroit. The bar will have simple drinks that are a throwback to classic drinks and shots. If beer is m...

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Buyers Are Snapping Up The New City Modern Development In Brush Park

If you have driven through Brush Park lately you can already see the City Modern development taking shape. City Modern is Bedrock’s answer to creating a complete urban environment, with mixed use and walkability across 8.4 acres of land in the Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit. City Modern offers residents five different styles of homes; Historic Homes, Townhomes, Carriage Homes, The Duplettes, and The Flats. Thursday, I was able to get a look at the five different models that developers...

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PICS, RENDERINGS: Large Brush Park project to start construction next week

The Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit at one time was full of the stately homes of some of the big leaders in the city. There was a ton of buzz about the rehabilitation of the Ransom Gillis house last year, but there’s more to what’s going to happen to the neighborhood just east of Woodward and steps from the new Little Caesars Arena and the new QLINE. Later this week major construction will kick off on what some estimate to be a $70 million or more investment into an area just larger than...

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Local Internet Provider Rocket Fiber Expands Outside of Central Business District

Rocket Fiber, a local Gigabit Internet provider that offers customers internet speeds up to 1,000 times faster than the average residential connection, has finally expanded outside of the Central Business District of downtown and into more of what’s known as “Greater Downtown.” The Midtown, Brush Park, and New Center neighborhoods now have access to Rocket Fiber, according to this blog post by Rocket Fiber. Rocket Fiber launched Gigabit Internet in January. At the time of the launch, there w...

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Big Changes Coming To Brush Park Thanks To Proposed $70 Million Housing Development

A once stately neighborhood that housed names like David Whitney, J.L. Hudson and Albert Kahn, just outside of the Central Business District of Detroit (and across the freeway from Comerica Park), is about to get a new infusion of investment. Brush Park, settled in the 1860s, is getting a $70 million, 8.4-acre, 47-parcel new residential development in Detroit’s historic Brush Park neighborhood as a four-block area of Brush Park  will be completely transformed under a new development agreement...