Progress Report: Midtown’s Forest Arms declared watertight, vertical gardens installed
The trend in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood is to turn its biggest eyesores into its biggest development hits. The ongoing restoration of the Forest Arms apartment building is proving to be the prettiest idea this summer.Excerpt:The ambitious renovation of the Forest Arms apartment building has made some progress, with developer Scott Lowell characterizing the fire-damaged structure as “weather-tight.” “The structure and roof are completely water-tight, which is a great situation,” he says. Next on the agenda will be reconfiguring the apartments into a more-modern floorplan. He anticipates that this next phase will begin in the fall and that construction will take a couple more years to be complete.Read the rest of the story here.
The trend in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood is to turn its biggest eyesores into its biggest development hits. The ongoing restoration of the Forest Arms apartment building is proving to be the prettiest idea this summer.
Excerpt:
The ambitious renovation of the Forest Arms apartment building has made some progress, with developer Scott Lowell characterizing the fire-damaged structure as “weather-tight.” “The structure and roof are completely water-tight, which is a great situation,” he says. Next on the agenda will be reconfiguring the apartments into a more-modern floorplan. He anticipates that this next phase will begin in the fall and that construction will take a couple more years to be complete.
Read the rest of the story here.
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