June 3, 2014
A gem off the old block: Persistence, luck help new developers build Midtown and a legacy
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 Building and the former Globe Trading Co. building along the Detroit River.
“They are the kind of developers we need more of in Detroit,” Di Rita said. “They had a vision, and they stuck to that vision, to really transform that block.”