The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit is moving into fresh digs.
Patricia Montemurri of the Detroit Free Press reports that the Archiocese is moving into new headquarters downtown and seling off its ornate 1926 chancery building on Washington Boulevard.
She writes that it will become the first major tenant in a revitalization effort to upgrade the city’s Capitol Park district.
Montemurri writes:
By mid-2014, the archdiocese plans to bring 185 employees to five leased floors of the 1212 Griswold building that once housed the United Way offices, Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron told staffers Tuesday.
The archdiocese is selling the chancery building at 1234 Washington Blvd., where six leaders of Detroit Catholics have worked since Bishop Michael Gallagher in the 1920s, to Capitol Park Partnership. An adjacent, unoccupied two-story building is part of the deal.
The Archiocese is also selling off some other buildings in Detroit.
