Urbane Apts closes in on opening new Birmingham property

The paint isn’t drying on Urbane Apartments’ newest building in Birmingham, but workers are gearing up to start slathering it on the walls.The crews at the Royal Oak-based firm are just a few weeks away from opening up the first units, which should be online within 45 days. The remaining 42 units are to open shortly afterward.”We’ll be completely finished by early July,” says Eric Brown, co-founder of Urbane Apartments.This is Urbane Apartments’ most recent purchase, and first foray into Birmingham. It has 14 other buildings in southeast Oakland County’s vibrant downtowns — Royal Oak, Ferndale and Berkley. Urbane on Adams is on, surprise, Adams Street, just north of Birmingham’s Rail District. It will consist of 42 luxury one-bedroom rentals and a 2,000-square-foot club house-turned-office space.The building is an old senior center that was a vacant foreclosure property when Urbane bought it. The C-shaped structure also has a maintained courtyard.Source: Eric Brown, co-founder of Urbane ApartmentsWriter: Jon Zemke

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The paint isn’t drying on Urbane Apartments‘ newest building in Birmingham, but workers are gearing up to start slathering it on the walls.

The crews at the Royal Oak-based firm are just a few weeks away from opening up the first units, which should be online within 45 days. The remaining 42 units are to open shortly afterward.

“We’ll be completely finished by early July,” says Eric Brown, co-founder of Urbane Apartments.

This is Urbane Apartments’ most recent purchase, and first foray into Birmingham. It has 14 other buildings in southeast Oakland County’s vibrant downtowns — Royal Oak, Ferndale and Berkley.

Urbane on Adams is on, surprise, Adams Street, just north of Birmingham’s Rail District. It will consist of 42 luxury one-bedroom rentals and a 2,000-square-foot club house-turned-office space.

The building is an old senior center that was a vacant foreclosure property when Urbane bought it. The C-shaped structure also has a maintained courtyard.

Source: Eric Brown, co-founder of Urbane Apartments
Writer: Jon Zemke

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