It's not uncommon to go to the Whole Foods in Midtown Detroit and circle around the parking lot for a couple minutes in search of a parking spot. So it makes sense that there's talk of possibly opening a second location in the city.
Developer Peter Cummings, son-in-law of the late Max Fisher, is pitching a promising site to Whole Foods for a second Detroit store, John Gallagher of the Detroit Free Press writes.
Gallagher writes that Cummings attended the 2013 Whole Foods ribbon-cutting, a store built in a Cummings-developed site on Mack Avenue between Woodward and John R.
"There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, a marching band, I mean the whole thing. I stood there and said to myself, 'I have not felt this good about a real estate project in a long time.' And I think the seed was planted that day that I wanted to shift my focus to working in Detroit," he said.
Cummings had been active on the development scene for years, but began concentrating more on his Florida development firm after his father-in-law died in 2005. He said the opening of Whole Foods renewed his interest in Detroit development.
