Insights and perspectives on MPA’s most recent projects, awards and clients.
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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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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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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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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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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- 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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- 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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- Curbed Detroit
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 […]
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- Curbed Detroit
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 […]
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