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DETROIT, Aug. 21, 2024 ~ For more than 10 years, a large plot of land right across from the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice has sat vacant and undeveloped. The parcel was supposed to be the site of the new Wayne County Jail, but after that project ran into massive cost overruns, the building site was abandoned.
Now, Dan Gilbert‘s real estate company, Bedrock LLC, has ideas for the land on Gratiot Avenue to develop a life science building on the 14-acre property. The new building would be over 200,000 square feet and five stories high. According to Crain’s Detroit Business, an unnamed tenant for the first floor has been identified, with paperwork saying only the anchor tenant is a renowned precision medicine outpatient facility. Construction on what the Bedrock refers to as the “Gratiot Life Sciences Building” would tentatively start late next year and public funding may be sought as part of the project.
PODCAST:
Aug. 21, 2024 ~ Dan Gilbert‘s company Bedrock is planning to build a life sciences building at the site of a failed Wayne County jail project. Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds talk with WJR Senior News Analyst Marie Osborne about how the development could become an innovation district in downtown Detroit.
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