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City Bakery, which has two New York City shops and several in Japan, will add one in a Detroit landmark.
The hot chocolate, food and pastry shop plans to open a 1,500-square-foot bakery in the Fisher Building in Detroit's New Center this fall, according to Detroit real estate developer The Platform.
Crews have just started gutting the old jewelry store in the New Center building to make way for the bakery, reports Kurt Nagl of Crain's Detroit Business.
City Bakery isn't the only addition to a building that has long needed a new infusion of shops.
Late last month, it was announced that the owner of the Peacock Room and Frida, popular women's clothing stores in the Park Shelton at Woodward and Kirby in Midtown Detroit, plans to open a boutique named Yama on the first floor of the Fisher Building this fall.
City Bakery's site tells its story:
The bakery first opened on a side street in Union Square in 1990. From the start, City Bakery introduced a unique version of a bakery to New York: part bakery, coffee bar, cafeteria-style lunch and a chocolate shop. A rich and sensory food experience in a beautiful modern space. City Bakery put new ideas into every inch and ounce of the bakery category, and led a new generation of bakery thinking.
City Bakery made organic ingredients staple, was locavore before the word existed, and created hot chocolate that changed how hot chocolate is made everywhere. City Bakery also brought a design-minded intensity to the sleepy bakery business: more beautiful bakeries and a focus on visual identity...
In the last quarter century, City Bakery has spawned a second bakery business in New York [Birdbath Green Bakery], and expanded to multiple locations in Japan. More international locations are in the works, too.
