Rediscovering the Garden

June 30, 2014

Saturday night in Midtown. Orchestra Hall is hosting Canada-born pianist Louis Lortie, who is playing Chopin. The Majestic Theatre boasts English electronic music producer James Blake. The Grille Midtown restaurant is nearly packed. The food is great; drinks are flowing; […]

Dip & Dive Three cool pools with poolside panache — from furniture to landscaping — make a splash

June 4, 2014

WHAT// A West Coast native finds a metro Detroit home swimming with familiar style By Judith Harris Solomon THE BACKSTORY Not long after moving to the Detroit area, Julia and Richard Slatcher purchased a 1960 home in Beverly Hills. When […]

Persistence, luck help new developers build Midtown and a legacy

June 3, 2014

Crains Detroit Business Originally Published: May 11, 2014 8:00 AM Modified: May 14, 2014 9:29 PM George Stewart recalls a thriving cultural scene in Detroit when he moved here from Baton Rouge, La., more than a half-century ago to pursue […]

A look inside Midtown Detroit’s latest development, the Woodward Garden Apartments

May 29, 2014

DETROIT, MI – The official opening Thursday of the Woodward Garden Apartments marks the beginning of the end for a four-phase project that began transforming the Woodward Avenue block between Selden and Alexandrine with the arrival of Great Lakes Coffee, […]

Civic leaders celebrate latest Midtown residential, retail projects

Civic leaders in Detroit’s hot Midtown district last week were celebrating the latest additions to the neighborhood’s stock of residential and retail space. Last week, a funders recognition ceremony was held to mark the opening of the Woodward Garden Apartments project […]

Apartment opening marks final phase of Woodward block’s revival

May 2, 2014

Detroit— A 15-year effort to revive a derelict block of Woodward Avenue entered its final phase Thursday with the formal opening of 61 rental apartments, 45 of which have already been leased. The Woodward Garden Apartments is the last piece […]

McIntosh Poris Associates Honored in Detroit Home’s 2014 Design Awards

In their Spring 2014 issue, Detroit Home again hosted their 10th annual Design Awards. We’re pleased to say we took home some gold (and a little silver). McIntosh Poris took Interior Design gold for the categories of: Contemporary Living Room, Contemporary […]

Boutique hotel developers want to take travelers outside – and into – the box

Plans are shaping up for three or four new boutique hotels in the city of Detroit, and the project developers are betting on visitors’ interest in non-cookie-cutter accommodations. While hotel experts say the city doesn’t technically need the hotels to […]

HopCat Chooses Midtown, Scores the Old Agave Building

Mystery Solved: HopCat Detroit is headed for Midtown. More specifically, the Agave Building, which has been vacant since 2006. Being one of the country’s largest (and best) beer bars, HopCat will renovate the Agave to include an outdoor beer garden and a live […]

Garden Theater: Former Ruin Gets Well-Deserved Restoration

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor years of pornography managed to destroy the Garden Theater in Midtown. It hung on just long enough to find an investor, reopening in October as Detroit’s latest win in architectural preservation. Built in 1912 as […]