Grosse Pointe’s Brownstones At The Park to break ground

The ground will break today in Grosse Pointe so the city’s newest condo project, The Brownstones at the Park, can rise this summer.

The 22 brownstone condo development will replace seven early 20^th Century duplexes that were razed earlier this year. Bloomfield Hills-based Robertson Brothers is hosting the ground breaking this morning with the hopes of building the first six units along Lake Pointe Drive. It’s part of an effort to replace older rental housing with new owner-occupied units.

The development is roughly one block away from city hall, the police station, the library and about one block north of Jefferson Avenue. It’s also a 15-minute drive from downtown Detroit. The condos will start in the $170,000s, and so far three have been reserved.

Each condo has two bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms inside of 1,600 square feet. Either a two-car garage or a large one-car garage comes with each unit. There will also be more on-street or on-site parking spots for a total of 55 spaces.

The developer expects to have the old buildings on the one-acre site razed by this spring and the first six condos finished within four months after that. The rest of the brownstones will be built as they are sold.

Source: Robertson Brothers
Writer: Jon Zemke