Carolyn and Scott Lowell, owners of the Traffic Jam & Snug and numerous apartments in Midtown, are bringing a family-owned dairy barn from the west side of Michigan to Detroit, R.J. King reports in dbusiness.com.
The couple is looking at three different locations to reassemble the barn, two parcels in Midtown as well as another site in Corktown. Pending city approvals, the three-level barn, which includes a lower level, a main floor, and loft space, would open next year as a restaurant, music venue, assembly hall, or other venue.
“As we reassemble the barn, we will add a commercial kitchen, modern bathrooms, a bar and dining area, and we’ll install an elevator in the silo," Scott Lowell told King. We may incorporate the bathrooms into the old milking stalls.”
Built in Alto, southeast of Grand Rapids, in the 1880s, the Howard/Kelly Barn was crafted from oak, beech, maple, and pine.
