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The Ilitch organization delivers heartening news
to the Detroit City Council on Thursday.
Louis Aguilar of The Detroit News writes that the organization will tell a City Council committee that one out of every five new residential units built in their planned $650 million, 45-block district north of downtown will be reserved for affordable housing residents. Modern housing, both rental and owner-units, have become quite pricey in the Midtown-downtown and Corktown area.
A rendering for one of the new residential buildings will also be unveiled: the renovated former Eddystone Hotel, according to information provided by Ilitch officials. It's a long vacant, 13-story building on the edge of the future home ice of the Detroit Red Wings. The former hotel is one of two empty historical buildings next to the arena site.
The other vacant building, the 90-year-old former Park Avenue Hotel, must be demolished, Ilitch officials confirmed Wednesday.
