Motel-to-apartment conversions offer housing solutions in metro Detroit

Motel-to-apartment conversions offer housing solutions in metro Detroit Credit: CoStar Group Inc.The former Motorama Motel in Ferndale has been turned from a 60-room motel into 36 apartments. It sold in May to a new owner. Some developers locally and around the nation have looked at giving motels the residential treatment with affordable units and even…