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Riverfront Hotel Plans Pivot to Apartment Development

The Detroit-based City Growth Partners LLC has scrapped its plans for boutique hotel rooms in a Detroit riverfront development. The $136 million vision for the property now includes 478 apartments instead of an original 360 apartments and 120 boutique hotel rooms. The revised number of apartments will make it one of the largest new multifamily projects in Detroit. The development will still include retail space. The Detroit Economic Growth Corp. board will have to sign off on the changes to the development plan because it is publicly-owned land. The changes have yet to be presented to the board.

Self-Storage Real Estate Sector Is On Fire

The self-storage industry has rebounded from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. As people make room in their homes for remote job environments, the home sales market drives an increase in storage needs. Restaurants and offices look for places to stash extra furniture to accommodate social distancing needs. The demand for self-storage is high. With self-storage vacancies down, the rent is also high. However, the self-storage market may be hitting a saturation point. Experts raise concerns about whether Detroit’s population can support an overbuilt self-storage market.

Development Team Buys Auburn Hills and Canton Township Sites

The development team of Farmington Hills-based Friedman Real Estate and Southfield-based General Development Co. has bought 40 acres of land in Auburn Hills for $3.7 million and 18 more acres in Canton Township for an undisclosed price. This is the same team behind the Oakland Technology Park in Auburn Hills. The team plans to build about 740,000 square feet of new build-to-suit space with 390,000 square feet in Auburn Hills and 350,000 square feet in Canton. The Auburn Hills site is at the former site of the Oakland County Animal Control. The Canton site is in the Canton Industrial Park south of I-275 and east of Warren Road.