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Woodward Garden Theater and Brizola Receive AIA Detroit Honor Awards!

September 17, 2014 - AIA Detroit

We are pleased to announce that both Woodward Garden Theater and Brizola have received 2014 AIA Detroit Honor Awards! Follow the link>>

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DuCharme Place: 185 New Apartments Greenlighted in Lafayette Park

July 29, 2014 - Curbed Detroit

DuCharme Place, a residential development planned for Lafayette Park, looks ready to leap from rendering to reality after a decade on the back burner. Featuring four contemporary residential buildings, DuCharme is slated for the site once home to Rochdale Court […]

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185-Unit Apartment Development to Begin Construction this Fall

July 17, 2014 - Model D

What started as a community of town homes nearly ten years ago has morphed into a four-building, 185-unit apartment development on the edge of downtown. Keeping the original name DuCharme Place, architects McIntosh Poris Associates and long-time Detroit developer Walter […]

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Rediscovering the Garden

June 30, 2014 - DBusiness

It’s a vision that George Stewart and Michael Byrd have dreamed about. And after 15 years of filling out paperwork, scrambling for financing, and basically waiting for the city’s revival to catch up with their dreams, it’s coming together. Paradise […]

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

June 4, 2014 - Detroit Home

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 […]

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A gem off the old block: Persistence, luck help new developers build Midtown and a legacy

June 3, 2014 - Crain's Detroit

Stewart and Byrd were visionaries with large-scale plans for Detroit development years before Dan Gilbert began building his real estate empire and redeveloping it downtown, said David Di Rita, principal of the Detroit-based Roxbury Group, the developer of the David Whitney […]

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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, […]

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Apartment opening marks final phase of Woodward block’s revival

May 2, 2014 - mlive

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 […]

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McIntosh Poris Featured in Detroit Home’s 2014 Design Awards

- Detroit Home

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 […]

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

- Crain's Detroit

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 […]

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