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Brush Park, once the rough-and-tumble red light district of Detroit, has been transforming into one of a premiere neighborhood just north of Comerica Park.
On Tuesday, a groundbreaking ceremony marked the continued push forward with a $100-million mixed-use development project called City Modern.
It’s the start of the “vertical era,” Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert said, according a Ian Thibodeau of The Detroit News. The reporter explains that "vertical,” means ground-up new construction as opposed to renovation. He reports:
City Modern, which will take three to four years to complete, is the first of a handful of pending development projects in Detroit neighborhoods to break ground. Within a year, similar projects aimed at revamping housing stock in Detroit’s Fitzgerald and North Corktown neighborhoods could begin.
Gilbert is currently working on designs for his huge mixed-use building planned for the vacant site formerly occupied by J.L. Hudson on Woodward, which will break ground in April.
-- Allan Lengel
