A new plan has surfaced to redevelop the Brewster Recreational Site in Midtown. The plan calls for 200 apartments.
Bingham Farms-based affordable housing developer MHT Housing Inc. is attempting to buy the 6-acre site off I-75 south of Mack Avenue from KC Crain, CEO of Detroit-based Crain Communications Inc., the parent company of Crain's Detroit Business, for an undisclosed price.
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...lus-apartmentsAs part of the overall vision, MHT would build 52 units of supportive housing for people who have aged out of the foster care system and provide wraparound services provided by Greater Grace Temple, run by Bishop Charles Ellis III, and Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network. Those services include counseling, and training in life and job skills, financial literacy and conflict resolution. In subsequent phases, three more 53-unit buildings with mixed-income housing would be constructed.
There would be 78 one-bedroom units averaging 600 square feet and 81 two-bedroom units averaging 750 square feet in the three other buildings. There would be 48 units available at 30% of Area Median Income, 24 units at 40% of AMI and 87 units at 80% AMI.
In addition, the historic recreation center — where boxer Joe Louis once trained and the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team once played — would be renovated and returned to its original use, said T. Van Fox, president of MHT, which owns or manages nearly 50 residential properties in Detroit. Restoration of that building, at 2900 St. Antoine, would begin late summer.
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