“Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship is pleased to announce its Class of 2022, a cohort of ten innovators who work across activism, urbanism, public art, film and media, technology, real estate development, and other fields that engage with the built environment and social outcomes. In addition to marking the program’s 51st class of Fellows, the Loeb Fellowship’s 2021-2022 cycle will inaugurate a collaborative fellowship between the Loeb Fellowship and the ArtLab at Harvard University.” FULL ARTICLE
“Melanca Clark and her husband, Moddie Turay, prefer a midcentury modernist design aesthetic coupled with neutral color palettes. And when it comes to architecture, she defers to him. (“I trust his eye for all these things,” Clark says.) But Clark’s stamp can be seen throughout their Detroit home in the form of an impressive collection of art by primarily Black artists. As the daughter of abstract expressionist painter Ed Clark—one of the most notable African American artists of the 20th century, who died in 2019—she takes great pride in showing off his “never-for-sale” pieces. There’s also an impressive array of works by the elder Clark’s artist friends Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, James VanDerZee, and more. ‘The art for us is what makes our home,’ she notes.” FULL ARTICLE
“Ensure that our city centres are diverse so that everyone has the opportunity to live next to their jobs, childcare centres and amazing schools. Here in Detroit you can find affordable housing somewhere in the city but that often comes at an additional cost: a lack of public transport, a lack of childcare, a lack of robust education choices.” FULL ARTICLE
“For our neighborhoods in Detroit to grow in the way that they should, it’s not just the people living in them who need to be diverse,” says Turay. “The people who have a seat at the table, who are helping to open new opportunities in those areas, they need to be diverse as well.” FULL ARTICLE
“The newly established real estate development company City Growth Partners, in cooperation with the City of Detroit, announced today that it will construct two new residential developments, Brush House and The Brush 8, in the historic Brush Park neighborhood.
Founded in late 2017 by real estate veteran Moddie Turay, City Growth Partners (CGP) will focus on commercial development projects that make positive economic, design and social impact in the communities and neighborhoods where they build.” ASPIRE
Project with 360 apartments, 120-room hotel planned for east Detroit riverfront—”The planned project by City Growth Partners LLC on 3.1 acres east of the Renaissance Center is one of the latest in a string of waterfront investments attempting to capitalize on tens of millions of dollars spent on the Detroit RiverWalk and other projects in recent years, radically transforming the area.” CRAINS DETROIT BUSINESS
“A Detroit-based development company says it hopes its $136 million mixed-use project will create a sense of community along the city’s east riverfront.” THE DETROIT NEWS
“… the new development at Atwater, Riopelle, Franklin, and Rivard streets will bring 360 apartments, plus retail and a 120-room hotel to the East Riverfront site. Apartment rents would reportedly be $2.50 per square foot.
No designs are available yet, but Crain’s reports that the developer is working with ODA Architecture out of New York, and the highest building would be eight stories tall.
The site sits near many developments still yet to take off. It’s right across from the Stone Soap Building, which will be redeveloped by Banyan Investments. It’s also not too far from a planned mixed-use development including a Meijer that was announced last year. Additionally, a while back, Dan Gilbert had shown interest in the land just east of the Renaissance Center; this land is currently parking lots.” CURBED DETROIT
“A lot of the developments along the water have been isolating,” Turay said Tuesday during an interview at the site. “For whatever reason, they basically just kept people out. What we’re trying to do in our development is actually bring people in to this site and have the public and the community be able to take advantage of what’s happening here.
“It’s a project not just in the community but a project for the community.” DETROIT FREE PRESS
“Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood is in line to get another 366 residential units spread across three different projects by two developers in the next several years.” CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS
“City Growth Partners in Detroit today announced it would construct a $136-million mixed-use project on the city’s east riverfront along Atwater Street near the Renaissance Center.
The project will offer 360 apartments, 20 percent of which are affordable, a 120-room boutique hotel, and around 40,000 square feet of commercial space. Construction is expected to start in early 2020 and take two years to complete.” DBUSINESS
“Plans for more residential infill are being announced in the historic Brush Park neighborhood today. In the first, we have two new developments—Brush House and The Brush 8—led by a new development team, City Growth Partners (CGP).
Brush House (above)—a development in response to a city RFP late last year—will bring 178 residential units (20 percent affordable) and 127 underground parking spots. The site sits at Brush, Watson, Beaubien, and Wilkins. The architect, Morris Adjmi Architects—based in New York City—was awarded for its ‘contextual, contemporary reinterpretation of historic buildings and neighborhoods.'” CURBED DETROIT
“‘People will likely underestimate the capacity, the brilliance, the sophistication, the strategic nature of how Moddie and Melanca move as a unit,” said Rodrick Miller, the former president and CEO of the DEGC who has known Turay for more than 20 years.
‘Detroit is very fortunate to have both of them.'” CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS
“Soon Detroit will be home to a $136 million mixed-is project that will merge not just living but leisure into the plans.” FOX2DETROIT
