Detroit continue de muer. La ville possède un patrimoine architectural considérable, hérité de son passé prospère, qui ne pouvait que servir de base à des projets ambitieux et luxueux. La renaissance de Detroit s'accompagne donc de la rénovation d'anciens immeubles résidentiels pour développer un marché immobilier de luxe et répondre à une demande grandissante.
Pour illustrer ce mouvement, nous vous présentons un article du Detroit Free Press qui décrit un des nombreux projet de rénovation haut de gamme. Le projet prévoit de rénover 200 appartements de standing dans un secteur appelé à se développer fortement.
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A developer is
aiming to restore Detroit's vacant (…) high-rise into 200
luxury apartments in a part of the city that hasn't seen such
investment in decades.
Craig Sasser,
63, announced his plans Thursday morning for a $34-million renovation
to the once-elegant 17-story tower. It opened in 1927 as a luxury
residential hotel at (...) and closed in the 1990s as low-income senior
housing. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The former Art
Deco masterpiece has been trashed and gutted by scrappers and is
missing its windows. The property is fenced in, and the ground-floor
entrances and giant windows are barricaded with concrete.
Sasser, who
grew up in Detroit and recently moved back from Los Angeles, told
reporters during a breakfast event at a nearby union hall that he is close
to purchasing (…) and two adjoining lots for $258,000 from the
Detroit Housing Commission.
He said he
plans to finalize the sale in December and start cleaning out
the building in January. Work would follow on the 200
units, all market-rate apartments.
“The building
will be up and available to rent in the fall of 2017," Sasser told
reporters.
(…)
sits about a mile west of New Center and the Motown Museum,
far outside the boundaries of the city's Midtown and downtown areas
where most of the new high-end apartment projects in Detroit are
located. The building towers above nearby Northwestern High School.
Kelley Lyons,
the commission's executive director, later confirmed the potential sale
deal and the likely December closing.
"We are
excited by Craig’s plans for the building, as well as his commitment to
neighborhood involvement in the process," Lyons said in an e-mail.
She added that
the commission has received sporadic interest in the property through
the years, "however, Craig is the first to demonstrate the
ability and commitment to close the transaction with the understanding that he
must comply with the historic requirements to maintain the historic
integrity(…)"
Sasser said
he has financial commitments from "a large energy
investor," which he did not identify, but described as "one
investor — not a person — an institution."
This investor
has pledged up to $200 million to do the L. P. and several
nearby new construction projects, including single-family houses,
apartment buildings, low-income housing and some commercial properties, Sasser
said.
The investor is
looking to make L. P. a demonstration project for a large residential
building that generates as much of its own energy from renewable sources
like solar panels as it uses, he said.
Sasser
said location shouldn't be an obstacle to L. P. attracting
luxury-seeking tenants, noting how demand for new market-rate apartments in
Detroit exceeds supply and that the new owner of the nearby Fisher
Building is looking to add upscale housing.
"We have
three major employers right there, which of course are Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University, and they have said that they
want to see more upscale housing in the area for their employees," he said.
Initial plans
call for $1.75-per-square-foot rents (…), which Sasser said could rise to
$2 per square foot.
Extrait d’un article publié sur Detroit Free Press le
19.11.2015
Journaliste : JC Reindl
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