Horwath said Midtown Detroit has aimed to create a balance as it chooses businesses to fill the section of Woodward at the end of the QLine streetcar route.
“I personally wasn’t fully aware of New Center,” Horwath said. “Midtown (Detroit) just really kind of helped to match up the businesses in that area, and with Wilda’s (cafe) going in across the street, and they just finished those … apartments above (in the Woodward Grand building), they’ve done a really nice job of picking and matching us up, so that we’re not just one business on a block, they’ve got the whole thing curated together.”
Ferne Boutique worked with the organization to select a location. Horwath said she plans to spend $40,000 finishing the interior of the 1,400-square-foot space and will hire abut two part-time employees to start.
Brigid Beaubien, who co-owns 8 Degrees Plato, said in October that she plans to open a home décor store called Urbānum on the same block in a Midtown Detroit space at 6545 Woodward Ave. The North End Collective, a gathering of retail shops for entrepreneurs, opened last winter near the south end of the block at 6513 Woodward Ave.
Midtown Detroit sold the former Payless Shoe Source building between the collective and Urbanum’s space to the team behind small-plate restaurant Selden Standard, Andy Hollyday and Evan Hansen. The sale was finalized around the end of November or early December, Hansen said in an email.
The pair plans to open a Mediterranean restaurant in the 6535 Woodward Ave. space. Hollyday and Hansen don’t yet have a name or an opening date to announce, Hansen said, but he estimated that renovations will wrap up around early 2019.
The Midtown Detroit-backed retail cluster with Ferne Boutique and Cooking with Que sits just south of property at the southwest corner of Woodward and West Grand Boulevard sold by Midtown Detroit to David Grasso, CEO of Grasso Holdings LLC, Crain’s reported. Grasso told Crain’s in June that he may build a 35-story mixed-use development with residential, retail and office space there.
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