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Should we cover I-75 in Downtown Detroit? // District Detroit focuses on residential

Some big news in downtown Detroit development, as there's word of changes with the plans for the District Detroit to focus on residential, pausing plans for an office tower next to Comerica Park. And then we get into a discussion about the idea of capping or putting a cover over I-75 in downtown Detroit over by Brush Park, Foxtown and more. A little over $4 million is being deployed by the Federal Government to study the idea as part of a Biden administration plan to reconnect communities spli...

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Council says yes to District Detroit // Lions might move headquarters

Normally, Devon is in on Fridays but he grabbed a pour-over and headed into the studio for a Wednesday edition of the show. We talk about District Detroit's incentives getting almost unanimous approval by city council - and even the dissent was clear to say they're pro-business and pro-development. Plus, word is the Lions are considering a move from their Allen Park training facility and business headquarters. https://www.mlive.com/lions/2023/03/lions-considering-moving-team-headquarters-from-...

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PODCAST: In-depth on the District Detroit plans (ft. Keith Bradford, Olympia Development)

The District Detroit is one the city development that has caught the most attention in the last year. The expansive, $1.5 billion vision anchored by the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center for Innovation means there’s a lot to talk about between the four residential buildings, four commercial buildings, two hotels – and the nearly $800 million in state and local incentives that developers Olympia Development and The Related Cos. say they need to get this done. My wide-ranging c...

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District Detroit discussed; Cocktails + Cookies; Listener mailbag

Busy big podcast today. First where we've been: 01:11 Basan 05:24 Insomnia Cookies 09:23 Discussing District Detroit (more on our newsletter: https://dailydetroit.substack.com/p/will-we-get-gleaming-towers-or-the) 17:37 Mailbag questions and potato salad found by a listener. Here's a link to the (almost) Mueller's salad. Thanks John!: https://www.windycitytimes.com/m/APPredirect.php?AID=26597 Suggestions for Devon's nickname (and other feedback) - dailydetroit - at -gmail -dot -com Feedba...

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4 Historic Buildings To Find New Life, 2 New To Be Built Adding 686 Residences Around Little Caesars Arena

Four historic buildings in the area dubbed “The District Detroit” will find new life, as well as two new buildings built that will have 686 residential units. The announcement today by Olympia Development outlined the fates of the United Artists building (developers are calling it 150 Bagley), The American (historically known at the Fort Wayne Hotel), The Alhambra, and Hotel Eddystone. There also will be two developments built from the ground up. They will be called The Arena Lofts and One E...

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New Little Caesars HQ Turns The Corner On Construction

The new home for Little Caesars is Detroit’s first newly constructed corporate headquarters building in more than a decade, and progress is moving at a steady pace. Today a “topping out” ceremony occurred, marking the last structural beam going into place. A tree was affixed to the top of the building, with the iconic Little Caesar sitting next to it. Designed by Detroit-based architect SmithGroupJJR, the new $150 million, nine-story, 234,000 square foot building is located at the corner of Wo...

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WSU Business School Rolls Out New Rendering At Project Groundbreaking

Today the Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University broke ground – a project at Woodward and Temple we told you about last week. However, the look of the building has been switched up pretty significantly. Gone are the columns and dome that reminds one of academia, and in its place is another glass facade that is going to be along Woodward avenue. Here’s what the old rendering looked like. Much more stately and traditional college-looking than above. In fact, so many of t...

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New WSU Business School Building To Break Ground On Woodward Next Week

Back in October there was an announcement about a new business school building for the Mike Ilitch School of Business – well, on Wednesday, the actual work is getting underway. To be located at the corner of Temple and Woodward, right next to the new Little Caesars Arena, the school of business. The $50 million complex, according to Wayne State, “will serve more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students, provide new flexible teaching, research, office and community spaces for students and...

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Building! Building! Little Caesars HQ Gets An Upgrade

Eight stories will soon be rising in Downtown Detroit, and they’re going to belong to the most-known Motor City pizza empire, Little Caesars. The 205,000 square-foot building will more than double in size the world headquarters that currently resides in the historic Fox Theatre. It’ll only be the seventh newly constructed corporate headquarters in Detroit since 1950. Currently, there are nearly 7,300 Detroit-based employees in the Little Caesars headquarters and the new facility will add room...