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HopCat Chooses Midtown, Scores the Old Agave Building

May 2, 2014 - 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 […]

Garden Theater: Former Ruin Gets Well-Deserved Restoration

- 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 […]