Michigan

DETROIT — The City of Detroit has unveiled plans for a $32 million, 84-unit apartment property in Midtown’s Sugar Hill Historic District. The plans call for 25 percent of the units to be designated as affordable housing for those making between 50 and 80 percent of the area median income. The project will also include 7,000 square feet of commercial space and a 300-space parking garage. Sonya Mays of Develop Detroit and Rodger Brown of Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc. will lead the development team. Phil Freelon, the architect behind the design of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., will lead the design team along with Michael Poris of McIntosh Poris Associates. The developer will purchase the vacant land — which spans slightly more than three-quarters of an acre — from the city for $400,000, pending council approval later this year. The development team is expected to break ground on the project in September 2018.

DETROIT — The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has provided a $250,000 loan and a $750,000 grant for the redevelopment of the former Statler Hotel site in Detroit. The Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority received the funding. Located at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Park Avenue, the property has been vacant since the hotel was abandoned in 1975 and demolished in 2005. The MDEQ brownfield grant and loan will cover the costs of mitigating the environmental contamination at the site. VG Statler City LLC will then construct a mixed-use building with 288 apartment units, ground-floor retail and underground parking. The redevelopment will meet national green building standards, including a green roof, and will bring an estimated 58 jobs and 400 residents to the area. The MDEQ’s brownfield redevelopment program provides grants and loans to local governments for environmental activities on brownfield properties where redevelopment is proposed.

DETROIT — Olympia Development has unveiled the initial phase of residential development at The District Detroit, featuring six buildings. The plan includes the redevelopment of four existing buildings — The Alhambra, The American, The Eddystone and 150 Bagley — as well as the construction of two new buildings. Of the 686 total units, 139 will be designated as affordable housing for those making no more than 80 percent of the area median income. This is Detroit’s single largest project of new market-rate apartment units, affordable units and redeveloped historic buildings in more than 20 years, according to Olympia Development. Olympia Development has teamed up with American Community Developers Inc. on five of the properties near Little Caesars Arena. Bagley Development Group will assist with the redevelopment of 150 Bagley. Construction of the new buildings is expected to begin later this year, with the renovation of existing buildings beginning in 2018. The District Detroit is a 50-block, mixed-use development led by Ilitch Holdings Inc. encompassing theaters, sports venues, restaurants, shops, offices and residential space.