The Wurlitzer Building in Detroit May Turn Into a Boutique Hotel

It looks like the vacant Wurlitzer building at Broadway and John R in downtown Detroit may be converted into a boutique hotel.

At least that's what the Brookyln design/development firm ASH NYC, which is buying the structure, indicated it would like to do, according to Louis Aguilar of the Detroit News. The firm has a contract to buy the 14-story structure for $1.1 million.

Aguilar wrties:

Last year, a former strip club in Providence, R.I. opened as a hotel called The Dean, which was designed by ASH NYC. The Providence Journal called it “elegantly hip.” The rooms have no telephones or dressers but employ spare design such as concrete end tables, made by local artists. Guests are offered fried-chicken chocolate bars.