In the midst of a transformational building boom, Detroit is a rapidly-changing, dynamic city and a hotspot for new development.
Detroit by the numbers
1,041 - Total residential units completed in 2018 or currently under construction
2,375 - Estimated number of residential units in the pipeline
73,305 - Total number of downtown employees
Source: Downtown Detroit Partnership
Fort Street Gallery is a 9,000-square-foot food hall that opened in October 2018 in the historic Federal Reserve Building.
Developed by Detroit-based The Roxbury Group, The Griswold is a $24 million, 80 unit apartment building completed in 2017 on top of an existing 10-story parking garage.
Baltimore-based Under Armour opened a 17,200-square-foot store on the corner of Woodward Avenue and State Street in spring 2017.
“This is about a lifestyle and how people are living,” said Susie McCabe, Under Armour’s senior vice president of global retail. You’ve got 11 million people that visit Detroit annually. Detroit, from a city perspective, has so many connections to the Under Armour brand from a grit perspective, from an up-and-comer perspective.”
One of five principal avenues of the city, Woodward Avenue is known as “Detroit’s Main Street."