Detroit continue d’attirer des
capitaux. Le retour d’industries majeures mais aussi l’implantation de jeunes
pousses incitent les sociétés évoluant dans les services à investir massivement
à Detroit. C’est au tour de la chaîne de restaurant Woodpile BBQ Shack de se
positionner au cœur de Detroit.
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Woodpile
BBQ Shack to open in Baltimore Station project in New Center
Work
on Detroit redevelopment on Woodward to start next month
By Annalise Frank
Woodpile
BBQ Shack in Clawson will open its second Texas-style barbecue joint in a $7.5
million redevelopment in Detroit's New Center neighborhood, real estate
developer The Platform LLC announced Sunday.
The
Platform, based in Detroit, will start construction next month on Baltimore
Station, which will house the 2,000-square-foot Woodpile location at 6402
Woodward Ave. south of Grand Boulevard.
Depending
on build-out, Woodpile could open in January or February 2018, said Scott
Moloney, a co-owner of the barbecue restaurant.
Woodpile
BBQ Shack opened its original fast-casual restaurant in Clawson in December
2015. Most of its barbecue classics are offered up within five minutes, in a
concept settled somewhere between fast food and formal dining.
Four partners own Woodpile: Moloney, who also
owns Ferndale-based Treat Dreams; Zac Idzikowski; his father, Tim Idzikowski;
and Brandon Hannish. Moloney is also a partner in the new Atomic Chicken to
open in New Center.
"Any
time you can bring a destination restaurant like this to your neighborhood is
proof that things have turned around and that The Platform's efforts are
already making a real difference," Dietrich Knoer, co-principal of The
Platform along with Peter Cummings, said in a news release.
Colliers
commercial leasing agents Ben Hubert and Benji Rosenzweig represented The
Platform in the deal.
Woodpile
hasn't officially chosen who will work on its space. Baltimore Station is
working with general contractor Jenkins Construction Inc. and architect Archive
Design Studio, both based in Detroit.
Baltimore Station progress
Renovation
on Baltimore Station as a whole is expected to finish around the end of the
year, said Dang Duong, one of the University of Michigan graduates who
originally conceived the Baltimore Station idea as a project for a UM Ross
School of Business class taught by Ann Arbor developer Peter Allen.
Duong
and the other two former students, Clarke Lewis and Myles Hamby, are part
owners in Baltimore Station along with Allen and his son Doug Allen under the
company BE Partners LLC. The three graduates also work as development managers
for The Platform, which is a co-owner as well as the developer.
Baltimore
Station is the named redevelopment of two long-vacant buildings in New Center
at 6402 and 6408 Woodward Ave., with 8,000 total square feet of ground floor
retail space and 23 apartments on the second and third floors.
After
The Platform signed on, the project was expected to cost $40 million, but it
was scaled down to $7.5 million due to a lack of parking space for the planned
residential units, Duong said.
Names
of other potential retail tenants and the cost of the Woodpile lease were not
released.
The
development is a few blocks from The Platform's Fisher and Albert Kahn
buildings. The developer is also in the process of constructing a 231-unit
mixed-use site called Third and Grand, next to the Fisher Building. Other
projects in TechTown and Milwaukee Junction are also underway.
Another
Texas-style barbecue brand in metro Detroit, Lockhart's BBQ, plans to open
fast-casual 10-30 dining spots called Lockhart's BBQ Shacks in the next year to
14 months. Lockhart's runs two sit-down restaurants, the original in Royal Oak
and a second in Lake Orion.
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