Downtown and Midtown Detroit are awash in expensive new buildings, and more are on the way. Dan Gilbert has started construction on an 800-foot tower — costing nearly $1 billion — on the old J.L. Hudson site.
The project Scott Lowell and Carolyn Howard are working on, by comparison, seems quaint and low-tech. Yet they’ve got something most other developers don’t have: a building that is unique, authentic and funky.
Lowell and Howard plan to reassemble a 130-year-old barn on their property at 14th and Dalzelle in Corktown, one block east of Michigan Central Station, and turn it into a restaurant and event space.
A barn?
A barn.
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