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Summer 2019

WeWork to more than double Detroit Footprint with new TechTown Space

September 12th, 2019

Co-working space giant WeWork LLC expects to double its Detroit footprint by opening its largest location to date, in the TechTown area of Midtown. The New York City-based company, whose parent is We Co., has signed a lease for more than 91,000 square feet at 6001 Cass Ave.

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Hair. Is The Newest Salon in New Center

September 12th, 2019

The Fisher building is home to a bunch of fashion-related retail spots, including The Peacock Room, Vera Jane, Yama, tailor William and Bonnie and on the more casual side, Pure Detroit. That’s kind of true to its roots, as back in the day, the three story lobby of the Fisher was kind of the Somerset Mall of its day, full of shops.

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Fisher Building owners refinance loan for $36M to continue preservation efforts

July 25th, 2019

The owners of the Fisher Building have closed on a major loan refinancing to continue much-needed maintenance and preservation efforts on the historic Art Deco building in New Center. Planned work includes restoring the brass entrance doors, modernizing three elevators, renovating public bathrooms, and constructing a new conference center. The owners say the loan will also allow them to pay off all prior debt.

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The historic Fisher Building is a Detroit treasure

July 25th, 2019

If you’ve never explored the Fisher Building, make sure to put it on your list! This 1928 landmark skyscraper is a Detroit treasure. As always, we’d love to hear from you on places we should be checking out in your neighborhood. You can email your suggestions to Explore@wxyz.com You can also watch the entire video series on streaming devices including Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.

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In Detroit, Empty Lots Become Parks, Helping to Rebuild Lost Social Equity

June 27th, 2019

Stephanie Harbin has lived in the Detroit neighborhood of Fitzgerald since 1969 and is president of the San Juan Drive block club. When she was a child, she remembers, there were 75 houses packed onto an extraordinarily long block of San Juan. And in a story that’s been repeated across many sections of Detroit, only 42 homes remain.

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Spring 2019

Residents Move into The Platform’s Baltimore Station 1 in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction Neighborhood

May 8th, 2019

Baltimore Station 1, a mixed-use redevelopment of two historic buildings on Woodward Avenue in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood, welcomed its first residents over the weekend.

The development offers 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and 23 loft-style apartments, five of which are offered as affordable housing at 80 percent of area median income or below.

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Developers offer peek behind rainbow mural in Detroit

May 1st, 2019

Developers offered a look Monday at the progress on a $16 million project to turn a cold storage building into a co-working space and food hall in the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood.

The first floor-to-ceiling window has been installed in the nine-story building at 2937-67 E. Grand Blvd. It will be among dozens of windows that will pour light into the long-abandoned building known for its rainbow-colored mural.

“It is a relatively small project but because it is out of the norm, it attracts a great deal of interest,” said Peter Cummings, executive The Platform, the Detroit-based development group undertaking the project.

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Gathering space opens in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood

April 29th, 2019

The 4,000-square-foot building at 7426 W. McNichols will be home to the Live6 Alliance, an economic development organization started in 2015 and supported by the Kresge Foundation and University of Detroit Mercy.

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Fitzgerald neighborhood takes innovative approach to reactivating vacant land

April 29th, 2019

The San Juan block of northwest Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood has seen its share of ups and downs. Historically, it’s been a stable street with lots of young families and children. But over the last decade, neighbors have had to contend with the slings and arrows of the foreclosure crisis, vacancy, and blight.

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Crain’s panel: Detroit residents’ retail needs are path to profit, neighborhood resurgence

April 25th, 2019

“Patience and commitment” to helping communities needs to be “baked up front” in Detroit real estate development deals, said Abir Ali, director of design and culture for Detroit-based developer The Platform LLC.

“I think if that is part of it, then we’re going to see that impact not just impacting returns and development portfolios, but also with the people you’re impacting,” Ali said.

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