The Woodward at Midtown is proposed by Detroit-based Queen Lillian II LLC, which consists of Chris Jackson, a minority owner and former staffer to former Detroit City Council president Gil Hill, and James Jenkins, who is majority owner of the company and is president and CEO of Detroit-based Jenkins Construction Inc. Detroit-based The Platform LLC was brought in as a development partner in 2018. “This development has been a labor of love […],” Jackson said in a statement. “We know that we have found the right team, and especially the right partners, to bring Detroiters a development they can be proud of.”