We read so often about apartments added in Midtown and downtown Detroit. Now development also is happening in immediate suburbs of Detroit like Ferndale.
Construction begins for two large mixed-use apartment buildings and the city’s first public parking deck, reports Mike McConnell of the Royal Oak Daily Tribune:
Some preliminary ground work has already begun on the first phase of the Ferndale Haus apartments at the former site of the Sav-A-lot property on West Nine Mile Road. The $14.9 million development with at least four stories is planned to have 90 apartments and retail space, possibly with some offices,
“It’s really the start of new vertical projects in the downtown,” said Jordan Twardy, head of the city’s Community and Economic Development Department. “It’s a marker.”
A second phase of the Ferndale Haus is in the planning stages to add 40 more apartments to the project later with more mixed-use space that will expand the footprint to Withington, Twardy said.
On the east side of Nine Mile, Wolf River Development is readying to begin its $16.1 million apartment project called 409 on the 9. It will include 127 apartments with over 5,500 square feet of retail space on the ground floor of the four-story building. The developer is seeking financial incentives for Brownfield redevelopment and groundbreaking is expected to start this summer at the site between Leeland and Paxton on East Nine Mile.
