7303 W. McNichols (Illustration: Detroit Economic Growth Corporation)
A development planned for Six Mile near Livernois in northwest Detroit would bring 38 apartments and stores to the area next year, helping transform a long-idling commercial strip where a deadly police shooting occurred last summer.
Crain's reports three Detroit developers are behind the project: George N'Namdi, of the N’Namdi Gallery in Midtown; Richard Hosey, a Downtown Development Authority member who has spearheaded historic redevelopments in Midtown and downtown; and Roderick Hardamon of Urge development group, a firm "focused on systemic change in urban communities through creative place keeping and placemaking."
They're targetting a summer groundbreaking and plan to have the development complete by late 2022.
The nearly $10-million project will seek to have a little more than $1 million of its costs offset by a brownfield tax incentive. All of the units are expected to qualify as affordable under federal standards, Crain's reports.
The brownfield incentive application says that all 38 units are being targeted at those making between 60 percent and 80 percent of the federally designated Area Median Income. In the Detroit-Warren-Livonia metropolitan area, the AMI for a two-person household in 2020 is $62,800.
"Our target resident demographic includes university students and faculty from University of Detroit Mercy and professionals seeking viable options in a (Strategic Neighborhood Fund) area ... within a short commute of the city center and surrounding communities," the brownfield application says.
The project would be located a block from where 20-year-old Hakim Littleton was killed after shooting at police in July.
