[CPEO-BIF] Rivertown, Detroit, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rivertown plan seen as catalyst for more development

By Kirk Pinho
Crain's Detroit Business (MI)
July 28, 2013

An ambitious plan announced last week to build a $55 million mixed- 
use residential and retail development along the Detroit riverfront  
is viewed as a way to jump-start other east riverfront projects.



Richard Baron, chairman and CEO of the St. Louis-based company behind  
the Rivertown development, McCormack Baron Salazar Development Inc.,  
envisions restaurants, coffee shops, fitness centers and jazz clubs  
in the area along Atwater and Franklin streets between the Dequindre  
Cut Greenway and Riopelle Street.



But board members of the nonprofit Detroit RiverFront Conservancy and  
developers say the project will also be a catalyst for new  
residential development along the east riverfront, the section that  
spans from Joe Louis Arena to Gabriel Richard Park.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130728/NEWS/307289995/ 
rivertown-plan-seen-as-catalyst-for-more-development#

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