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Two skyscrapers between 25 and 30 stories are reportedly slated for Midtown, along Woodward near Whole Foods.
Crain's has the scoop on the proposed new development, which would give Detroit another boutique hotel.
A luxury Thompson Hotel is part of a large-scale $310 million project targeted for the vacant land currently wrapped with a scrim-covered fence reading "More Midtown" north of the Whole Foods Inc. grocery store property at Woodward and Mack avenues, according to sources.
Details of the plan, in the works for well over a year, have been a tightly held secret until today, when the owner of the 3750 Woodward Ave. property, an entity tied to Ciena Healthcare CEO Mohammad Qazi, submitted a request to the city for brownfield financing for the first phase of the project that its representatives anticipate will take until December 2020 to complete, with a groundbreaking slated to be held this summer. Construction on the second phase is expected to begin three or four months later.
The skyscrapers would be among the tallest buildings constructed north of Mack Avenue since the 1920s, Crain's reports.
Renderings are from Inform Studios:
