As part of Mayor Mike Duggan’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund initiative, Southwest Detroit’s Clark Park is slated for $3.3 million in upgrades. Improvements will include a new entryway along Vernor Highway, new walkways, paths, a playground, a splash pad and a plaza. Improvements will also be made to the recreational and fitness fields. The makeover will […]
Ferndale’s Rosie O’Grady site is slated for redevelopment. The Ferndale Planning Commission has approved plans for a mixed-use development on the site. It will become the home to an Atlantic and Pacific seafood restaurant, a Mexican barbecue restaurant, office space, and 11 second story apartments. The one or two bedroom perimeter apartments will have balconies […]
Realtors and brokers predict that Metro Detroit home prices will continue their record-breaking trend into the fall and holiday season. Virtual home inspections and online home purchases are likely to return to in-person showings and open houses. In June 2021, single-family real estate sales shattered records with median sales prices at their highest levels ever, […]
An unknown entity or entities is purchasing well known Detroit properties. The Film Exchange Building at 2310 Cass Ave. and its parking lot sold for an estimated $8.75 million. The Bookie’s Bar & Grille building at 2208 Cass Ave. sold for an estimated $4.2 million. Both LLC buyers list their addresses as PO boxes, a […]
Billionaire Stephen Ross and Christopher Ilitch, president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, are in talks about building the Detroit Center for Innovation within District Detroit. District Detroit is comprised of Ilitch-owned properties around Little Caesars Arena. This is a change from previous plans for a 14-acre Gratiot site where the half-built Wayne County jail once […]
Homeowners who want to build in the Traverse City area are facing hurdles. They need to come with cash, a buildable lot, a contractor with a pool of skilled tradesmen, and then more cash to offset the increase in building materials. There has been a 250% increase in lumber prices. The annual average increase is […]
Birmingham’s planning board voted to recommend approval of a final site plan and special land use permit for a building that will house RH, an upscale home furnishings store. Formerly known as Restoration Hardware, the store will be housed in a new four-story building on the southwest corner of Old Woodward Avenue and Brown Street. […]
Logistics businesses are moving into Romulus, bringing more than 500 jobs to the area. The Ecorse Commons Industrial Park, near Detroit Metropolitan Airport, houses Hearn Industrial Services, Pitney Bowes, DHL, LaserShip and Lowes Inc. With e-commerce taking off, it joins another million square feet of warehouse space that has been built in Romulus in the […]
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has given bad landlords an ultimatum. If they don’t clean, sanitize and restore damaged properties from last month’s flood, they’ll be fined $250 a day. The effort may not be enough in the face of the myriad of difficulties renters face. Year-long delays with home repair grants programs, mortgage challenges, over-assessed […]
New single-family housing construction in the Great Lakes region is following a nationwide trend. For the last 4 years, the number of single-story homes being built has gradually increased. The number of two or more storied homes has been decreasing. Although single-story homes are more expensive to build, they appeal to older home buyers who […]
