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Real Estate Urban Planning Housing

Can Second-Floor Apartments Make A Comeback? A New SDBA Grant Program Thinks So.

April 26, 2023April 26, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments construction, dearborn, flamingo vintage, ford motor company, greg mangan, historic, historic architecture, historic preservation, jamahl makled, juan gutierrez, matterport, Michigan Central Station, mixed-use, Nat Zorach, prehabbed, rehab, Renovation, richard kimo frederiksen, rouge river, sdba, sdba grant, southwest detroit, southwest detroit business association, storefront, storefront with apartments, storefronts, vernor highway, west vernor

An ambitious new program in Detroit seeks to provide $10,000 to property owners to renovate and rent out second-floor and third-floor apartments in mixed-use buildings along several major corridors in Southwest Detroit.

Real Estate Urban Planning Mobility Housing

Greenways, The Ultimate High-Density Corridor Development Tool?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments active living, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, AMI, bde maka ska, corridor, corridor development, cycling infrastructure, Density, density bonus, Detroit, displacement, Gentrification, high-density development, housing, housing development, inclusionary zoning, industrial corridors, industrial redevelopment, joe louis greenway, lake calhoun, lake harriet, low-density, luxury rentals, market rate rentals, mid-density, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minneapolis midtown greenway, mixed-income, mixed-use, new construction, nonmotorized infrastructure, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian infrastructure, real estate, real estate development, recreation, rental housing, safe streets, the out-of-doors, transit corridors, YIMBY

Nat compares the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis to the Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit, which broke ground this past week.

Cities & Urban Planning Parking

Detroit Park City, No. 1: Mexican Village (1/52)

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Density, detroit park city, Development, housing, mexican village detroit, mixed-use, parking, parking lots, real estate, surface parking

In my last post I introduced Detroit Park City, a planning research project focusing on the positive potential of converting

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