In the latest U.S. Spotlight, one of Detroit’s principal downtown arteries and one time home to the Detroit Tigers stadium is undergoing a rebirth.
HUNTER PASTEUR HOMES AND OXFORD CAPITAL GROUP — The Godfrey, an upscale Hilton Curio brand hotel, anchors one end of a revitalized Michigan Avenue.
When Tiger Stadium closed in 1999, it was demolished almost a decade later, it was the last nail in the coffin. Some of the remaining bars that served aftergame crowds closed but in the intervening years some new and trendier bars and restaurants opened as part of a revival of Detroit’s historic Irish Corktown neighborhood.CITY OF DETROIT — Shown is the rebuilt Roosevelt Park at night, flanked by the Michigan Central building and Ambassador Bridge to Windsor, Ont. in the background.
The Godfrey, one of five such branded hotels in the U.S., part of the Hilton chain’s upscale Curio division, is a seven-storey, 227-room complex, a $75 million contemporary-styled building rather than a repurposed older one.But between them was the first major new residential complex, The Corner, appropriately enough built at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Street, where Tiger Stadium was located.
Meanwhile, The Godfrey also signals the first major hotel to be built just outside Detroit’s central business district.The development faced no major challenges but developers worked with community groups so the project fit into the revitalized Corktown area. Klein said the revitalized park will complement Michigan Central in a new way, serving 5,000 office workers as well as the wider Corktown neighborhood.
Klein said the city worked with neighborhood residents as part of a “framework plan for the greater Corktown neighborhood improve the quality of life” for residents.
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