La ligne Q-Line facteur de vitalité : les projets tout au long des stations desservies foisonnent

 A côté de projets de grandes ampleurs, d'autres parviennent à se distinguer favorablement et agiront sur une amélioration du cadre de vie à Detroit. C'est le cas de l'aménagement de trois blocs à proximité du futur terminus de Q-Line, tramway qui fera office de véritable locomotive pour attirer les investissements. 

Ainsi, ce secteur composé d’entrepôts vacants, appartenant autrefois à l’industrie automobile et aux Big Three, sera entièrement rénové. Ce projet fera également figure de bassin d'emplois puisque la rénovation de ces bâtiments manufacturiers créera, dans un avenir proche, près de 90 emplois.

Proposed redevelopment would create space for small manufacturers, artisans along with live-work space (…).

A three-block stretch of Detroit’s North End neighborhood just east of the New Center area is being looked at for a redevelopment geared toward small manufacturers, artisans and other businesses, along with live-work spaces.

Detroit-based Town Real Estate LLC, whose managing partners are Jordan Wolfe and Kyle Polk, is asking the city for a property tax abatement for 10 years for 43 parcels (…)

Late this week, Wolfe referred questions to Polk, who declined to comment.

During a Detroit City Council Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee meeting Oct. 29, Wolfe said the project area, which generally consists of vacant and underutilized industrial buildings about three blocks east of the northern terminus of the M-1 Rail project along Woodward Avenue, spans about 10.8 acres.

“Many of these buildings were old supply houses and distribution houses for the Big Three,” he told the committee, which later voted to have a public hearing for the full council on the establishment of a commercial rehabilitation district. Those allow for the abatement of property taxes generated by new investment for up to 10 years.

In an application for the district’s establishment, Town referred to the project as “an area with a focus on production-oriented jobs and housing.”

“The district will offer live/work production office studios and industrial showrooms where tenants will produce and showcase products to consumers and other buyers,” the application said. “The office space and showrooms will be complemented by additional mixed-use developments that will contain multi-family housing and food/beverage retail concepts.”

According to the application, the first phase of the project would redevelop several properties in the area, including a building (…) into a music recording studio; shared and freelance manufacturing and equipment storage space (…); a product design hub with a furniture design and fabrication center and live-work space (…); a distribution center and retail showroom with live-work studios (…); and a café with a shipping and packaging design center (..).

The company plans to buy and renovate more properties in the future “to entice and enable additional developers and entrepreneurs to utilize the proposed district to do the same.”  

The application says the project will create about 40 full-time jobs, 20 part-time jobs and about 30 short-term construction jobs.

Town Real Estate is also the company behind a planned $35 million to $40 million mixed-use development just outside of the Eastern Market area with plans for a 170,000-square-foot residential and/or hotel building consisting of 154 apartments and/or 160 hotel rooms plus 28 commercial tenant spaces.

Town Real Estate was approved for establishment of a commercial rehabilitation district for that project — planned for the area generally bounded by Gratiot Avenue to the north and Rivard, Russell and Maple streets — last month.   

The first work on the Eastern Market project is expected to begin next year. There are 23 parcels involved.

Extrait de l’article mis en ligne sur le site internet Crain’s Detroit Business le 06.11.2015
Journaliste : Kirk Pinho

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