A Victorian-style home in the city's Brush Park Historic District is being saved from ruin to address the rental squeeze near downtown, and several more conversions could be on the way, reports Serena Marie Daniels in the Detroit News.
The neighborhood's newest development, called The Edmund, is a renovation of the three-story Lucien Moore House, built in 1885 and named after the 19th-century lumber baron.
Daniels writes that the city of Detroit is impressed enough with the conversion of the 11,000-square-foot home into a six-unit rental house with three newly built townhome apartments on the property that it wants to renovate some of its other historic houses in the area.
"Our hope is to replicate what took place at The Edmund at some of our properties," said Karla Henderson, director of the city's planning and facilities department, about four historic homes that Detroit owns on Alfred Street.
